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Exactly. Elections matter and you're seeing it right now. Older white people are the most engaged voters and who do you think is getting their policies implemented? I'm looking at data from 2006 and in the most regular voter is white, 50 years or older, and goes to church on a weekly basis. Wow! Sounds like exactly who conservatives target with their policies. Those who reported as Republicans also had the highest percentage of voting regularly and the lowest number of unregistered voters. That's why Democrats have to tap into all those unregistered voters and turn their favorable blocs into regular voters. It's not an accident that older whites turn conservative, it's not a law of nature, it's not an accident that the people who vote conservative are the most regular voters and it's not a law of nature. It's a hundred years of political strategy to churn out your supporters and suppress the others.
She was wrong in going with a pied piper strategy.
Choose the candidate that could coalesce republican and fringe groups was on her and her team along with the media not the voters.
I can't blame them, but it will inevitably lead to further suffering.
Burning it down does more harm than good.
Honestly with everything else going on in this country might as well bust out guillotines
"No Democratic president cares about pushing their agenda" is so objectively untrue that I don't know how to refute it without just copying and pasting Wikipedia pages of congressional votes!
Democratic legislative agendas are extremely complicated and ambitious — ideologically and procedurally. Mix a broad, diverse agenda of competing interests with a broad, diverse party of competing interests, with only two years to get it all done, and it should be no surprise why a lot of Democratic wishlist items don't end up passing. It's not for lack of caring or interest. Just the opposite — too many different interests pushing in different directions.
Exactly. This is much more succinct than how I put it lol
Yes voting is how the populace collectively keeps Republicans out of power
ah but this opens up floodgates with other cases like the right to contraception?
6-3. Roberts can write whatever concurrence he wants, he still voted to overturn it.
I feel like young people have been saying this for decades
It's like an inherent disadvantage in the system that young people don't vote as often as the elderly because no one has been able to crack the code in getting young people to vote reliably relative to other demographics.
Ok so then it would have been 5-4, still overturned. Unless Mitch McConnell tried to screw the Dems out of two seats at once.
the only Justice to mention cases like Griswold, Lawrence, or Obergefell was Thomas in his concurrence
She was, but IDK that anyone else would've beaten trump in the primary that year, with or without her help
Republicans have more voting power than Democrats. That's why it's worked for them and not the other way. They aren't on equal ground
Not just that either. Control of the legislature at the State level is absolutely on the ballots in many many many states, and one party is going to look to restrict abortion access and one is going to look to protect it.
Pointing out that whether or not you can get an abortion in your state is on the ballot this November is a very important message to get out there to any states where the local legislature could go either way.
Women and Minority groups are 24/7 under attack. It's the Dems fault for not being pro-active in protecting these groups. They are a flaccid reactionary party.
Im guessing they'll start by not allow shipping to anti-abortion states.
I get it; in hindsight she should've realized the risk of staying on past Obama's term.
Not sure it would've mattered with McConnell running the country.
Where is this violent backlash against progress coming from? Like, why now? Roe v. Wade stood for nearly 50 years! Is there a theory for why this rabid anti-progressive base has grown so powerful in the past decade?
That post isn't even accurate. As we should definitely be aware of now, he needed 60 votes. Or 50 to get rid of the filibuster which really wasn't a talking point at all at the time.
Sadly I think most Americans are too privileged and comfortable to ever protest beyond their Instagram black squares of solidarity. This Supreme Court has 6 emboldened radical conservatives right now who knows they can do whatever they want and they've been doing it now for weeks with awful rulings.
When are people going to realize that Republicans DO NOT CARE if there are protests?
I know you've been quoted a bunch, but thank you for the post. Spot on.
Mitch would be happy to own the libs, especially if a progressive publication like New Republic agrees that he has the power to do so
Real talk
Court expansion as the up front campaign policy is risky as fuck with the way the media and public reactions works
It got his killer convicted. It got Ahmad Arbery's murderers convicted. That wouldn't have happened without them.
That's what the problem with folks like you, and worse folks. Sustained campaigns, be it voting or protests, do not pay massive dividends immediately and do not guarantee those payouts forever. Small victories that pile on and grow over time are the best sign of success, not an indicator of failure. The Civil Rights movement didn't happen over a single simmer. It took Republicans 50 years of effort to get Roe overturned.
Y'all are either lazy, cowards, or both.
Sure looks like it. Bodily autonomy is dead in this country and we're accelerating at an alarming rate to strip away just about every personal liberty.
This and the other rulings this week such as Miranda Rights no longer being required to read and public tax funding required to go to religious schools should tell everyone everything they need to know about the fascist, autocratic, Christian theocracy this loud and powerful minority is making.
And we've seen it coming for years. Action must be taken now to course correct, but honestly I'm afraid it's already too late. The Court is telling us today what the end game is and they're going to get it.
Don't ever let anyone tell you voting isn't important. GOP knows this more than anyone else that's why they've spent so many years trying to limit who has access to the polls. This outcome has been their goal for decades. They started by taking over local elections which democrats for the most part have been ignoring while only focusing on national elections.
They literally can just say whatever they want and have it be considered true. Like that's their entire deal whenever they invoke the founding fathers and what they intended, etc. It is specifically something designed to sound credible (despite that they are completely unqualified when it comes to actually knowing that sort of history), so they can back up whatever point they want to make.
The specifics matter only in that some of the individual conservative justices have some quirks where they do actually care about one point or another and may split on that. But if they all want to do something, they can pull the reason out of thin air.
Absolutely. The system is fucked and broken and needs to change. That change will probably have to happen outside of the bounds of electoral politics.
But while we're waiting for that change to happen we should all vote as much as possible for Dems to reduce harm.
Except that's not my point at all.
How does not inciting the enemy or putting them in power become we could've had a better candidate?
He's just another pawn to an end FDR called out the elites wanting since he wanted to pack the courts.
She just backed an anti abortion candidate under FBI investigation. You know what Pelosi hates more than Roe v Wade being overturned? Leftists.
No, it was 5-4 for the full overturn, 6-3 in favor of keeping the Mississippi law but done so due to Roberts wanting compromise. It's impossible to know what he would have done if the make up was different, but factually, it was 5-4
5-4 Decision
People, the vote to overturn Roe was 5-4, not 6-3. Please pay attention!!!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-overturns-abortion-rights-landmark-2022-06-24/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-overturns-abortion-rights-landmark-2022-06-24/