Fixes have already been put in place. The country is good and fucked
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Politico: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
- Thread starter Smokeymicpot
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Like clockwork. Alway attack the voter, never the system. This is one of the reasons there is no hope.
You're being way too pessimistic. The US has survived far worse and more horrendous violations of civil rights.
People that stayed home and didn't vote for Hilary did though, and that includes moron third party voters, dumbfuck "her emails," and shitstain centrists and lefties that regurgitated ridiculous sexist attacks piled on since the early 90's.
Even if the Democrats somehow win seats in both the House and Senate, what makes you think they'd do anything about this?
Introduce a law that this court will strike down? The party has made it clear they do not want to stack the court.
You aren't wrong, but this chart is slightly misleading. All those areas of red, while red, are not HEAVILY populated I think.It's not as easy as chalking it up to simply red states/blue states. Austin, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, and pretty much any city in the country are going to be more to the left than, say, rural Oregon that has a ton of history with nazis and skinheads.
I genuinely don't know how you fix pockets of blue in an ocean of red.
This fucking sucks and it's disgusting. Ugh.
My small bit of hope is the GOP will honestly have no idea what to fucking run on when you take out 80% of their platform. Dog catching the tail.
At the very least they'll crush it in fundraising.
But that never really translates to votes.
I vaguely recall either Illinois or Ohio already pushing for that. And you know someone is going to eventually push for a ban that completely disregards residency, because fuck everything I guess.
And y'know, growing up around white moderate New York Republicans, this is what they believed the world was like. That there were intrinsically good and bad places and that was that. Texas is a godawful shithole? Fine, just don't ever go there. Never step foot unless you can handle the customs and God pray if you're unlucky enough to have been born there. Well, belief becomes reality, and we're gonna see just how bad it can possibly get. And I legitimately pray for everyone trying to get out. Godspeed.
1) Last-ditch effort to pressure someone in the majority to back down; and maybe to accelerate efforts in states to strengthen abortion access; or
2) Extremist effort to shame someone that got cold feet
The democrats winning will do nothing, democrats don't do shit in the face of republican control no matter if they are in the minority or majority. They are fucking worthless as a governing party. Being less bad than the republican party doesn't mean shit when they cant stop republicans from dismantling rights and attacking rights.
The country was moving forward most of that way, the history of countries democratically backsliding in this manner has a rather one way track record until they hit rock bottom, stay there for a long time, then it's a crapshoot whether they just end up as permanent failed states or get shocked out..but in the modern world they mostly stay failed
Americans just paint their situation with racist exceptionalism, that only those dirty countries end up illiberal democracies or full blown failed states, but America ain't that special that we have a type of human being living here that is immune to the triggers all those backsliding countries encountered
The senate has to be abolished in order to correct this minority rule abomination that our government has become.
But of course that's not going to happen.
My silver lining to all this is that the ruling motivates people who sat at the sidelines and hemmed and hawed about Biden and the Democrats finally take a side and vote blue in November. Hopefully.
Hilary won the popular vote by over 3 million. The majority of people did their job. The 2016 election was decided by less than 10,000 votes across three states that had heavy voter suppression. The system is rigged. You're just attacking the people who did what they were supposed to do.
It is
It is the voter's fault if they made the conscious decision to not vote.
Yup, fully co-signed on these too.
"I just don't feel like I could get a beer with Hillary. Sure the other guy is a literal rapist, like honest to god on tape talking about sexually assaulting women and how easy it is, but man, I need that beer vibe, you know? Both sides."
We're still dealing with the consequences of the most transparent misogyny in modern history and will be for decades. And yes, every single person who didn't vote/protest voted contributed to this.
As someone who lives in a red state, I will push my daughter to move out of here when she can. I don't want her to live in fear of having carry an unwanted baby to term. I know people will argue with me but if you think protesting is going to get you anything, good luck. We're way past that point in America.
46.86% of American voters openly support Trump and the GOP, people who tried to establish an authoritarian dictatorship. Once the Republicans get control of the presidency, House of Representatives and Senate they'll be free to establish that and at that point there will be no way back.
Public outcry could change that sentiment, though. I agree that it's highly unlikely but this decision will cause a firestorm.
Jesus Christ. I can't even begin to say what should happen to Alito because I'll wind up on a spectacular number of lists.
And that's exactly what they want.
This is heartbreaking. Made utterly heartbreaking by the fact that this is not the end. Republicans will roll us back to the Stone Age. Republicans will rob me (and people like me) of my personhood multiple times over until my Black ass is back in chains. This is not hyperbole. Bit by bit, this is the end-game. And Black folks know it. Been knew it.
This is why you fight. This is why you do what you can to protect as much of your peace as you can. Because the last thing you have to give up is your will to fight. To dance with the devil. To vote even if it's just to stop the other person. Voting for the lesser of two evils has never been the weak thing. It has always been the valiant thing. Because no matter what, no gain is permanent and it can always get worse. This is the very thing many of us have been fighting for people to understand.
Tonight I'm going to drink. I'm going to commune with my friends and love ones. Then tomorrow, I'm going to continue fighting for Democracy.
So there's nothing to be done, then, huh? Just roll over and die?
That's not true. History is one of ebbs & flows. There's always reactionary backlash to progressivism. But in the end, society takes two steps forward for every step back.
The enemy of progress isn't conflict, it's apathy.
they don't care about elections (that much) anymore. they will challenge every single critical race, and sue up to the supreme court if necessary.
Just illustrating my point more and more. There will never be any hope if you can't even acknowledge the system is broken.
Well of course they will. They want your money just to sit and fuck themselves off. So sick of this fucking party doing Jack shit
We're currently in an example of society trying to take six steps backward in response to one step forward. Things aren't improving anywhere else, everything JUST keeps getting worse.
Democrats winning in 2016 would have prevented this decision easily. Winning the senate in 2014 too.
This is a very hopeful view of a situation that feels very hopeless.
It's crazy in 14 years we've gone from being on the cusp of a liberal revolution to being nearly swept by a fascist tide. Just depressing.
Well I wonder what Democrats will do now? Platform on bringing abortion rights back nationally or just drop it and leave it to the states?
Well I wonder what Democrats will do now? Platform on bringing abortion rights back nationally or just drop it and leave it to the states?
