On Scalia dying

First off, I know I should not relish the death of anyone. Scalia was someone's father, someone's grandfather, and someone the age of my own Dad, who I pray makes it to his 80's, but I know once you go into your seventies, ever day is either sheer luck or a gift from God, depending on what you believe.

However, while I can sympathize with Scalia as a human being, I will not shy from stating the obvious: he inflicted scarring, almost mortal wounds to the very idea of America. In 2000, he turned the idea that we "elect" our president into a joke, by making a blatantly partisan judgement, meant to enrich his own power, which, as Alito shows, it certainly did. Add in Citzens United, aka "we rich buy whatever and whoever we want" and he came close to killing the very idea of American justice. With Billionaires (and perhaps even foreign governments) dumping billions into the elections, well, justice is not yet dead, but she is waiting for a call from the governor. I feel sorry for the man, but am I sorry for the person that might have done the harm to my country that even Hitler, Josef Stalin and Ben ladin could never have hoped to do?, no. And yes, yell Godwin law all you want, but few foreign governments could have ever hoped to corrupt us the way Scalia did.