So it's a little odd (although also not, because I've lived in this country for awhile now) that I hear more talk of breaking glass ceilings than I do of raising concrete floors, and also there seems to be an (mostly) unstated assumption that having a rich and powerful person from a particular demographic category will be beneficial for poor, powerless people in that demographic category. That is certainly not the case, as Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett should make clear.