Kavanaugh’s testimony showed him to be too political for court

My image of justice is that of a blindfolded woman carefully weighing the evidence on the scale of Justice. I listened carefully to Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony. Two points lead me to reject him as a Supreme Court justice.

I find Kavanaugh’s anger worrying. I am concerned about his ability to be fair and unbiased towards all of those he singled out in his testimony.

I am even more disturbed about his dividing people into groups. He spoke repeatedly about “on the left,” “Democrats” and “Republicans”; not just politicians, but Democrats and Republicans in general. It seems to me that addressing those who are “on the left” or who are Democrats or who are Republicans is to ignore the vast majority of us who do not see ourselves as members of those groups.

I suggest reading “Factualness” by Hans Rosling. It details with data the inaccuracies of such a simplistic view of the world. Looking at the world as “us or them” is not only wrong, it reflects at best an outdated view of the world. I also think that such a worldview does not make it easy to be impartial, or fair, or compassionate. It also makes empathy almost impossible.

We are not just “us or them,” we hold a wide variety of complex views.

Reject Kavanaugh’s nomination and that of any other candidate who lives in an us versus them world that is blind to most of us.

Gary McCaig

Lynnwood