All these US political institutions, parties, and politicians have abysmal rates of support from the public. And there's overwhelming support for things like universal healthcare or abortion rights, but somehow we don't actually get those things.
And Americans will sit back and believe everything the government tells them and insist we have the best, most democratic system in the world.
The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is very real.
"The guillotine is nature's vote of no-confidence."
-- Robespierre, probably
the people have almost forgotten what democracy originally looked like :gui-better:
Roe is overruled.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
The highest it's been since the 70s is like ~56%? :data-laughing: Nice democracy
Love how their approval rating went up after Bush v. Gore. Bazinga brain country.
Note the large spike in 2014 for Obergefell, the decision Thomas named as one to go for next. Will we hit under 20% approval if they end up overturning gay marriage in addition to abortion rights?
Without a doubt. Honestly if they overturn Obergefell, I can see democrats even stepping in and actually doing something. It would be wildly popular, especially if it’s right before the midterms
I could see that, Dems doing literally nothing about it would be so mask-off callous that they'd lose a ton of support, enough to be a line too far even for the DNC. I have to believe they would show some kind of self-preservation instinct in that situation, if they didn't I would be 100% convinced that they are extremely literally controlled opposition for Republicans, like Mitch McConnell has a retinue of staffers running them from his Senate office.
I felt like Roe v Wade was going to be that line but they caved so completely that everything they're saying today comes off as some of the most hollow words I've heard since my boss told me she was upset that she had to fire me. At this point there's no such thing as harm reduction because if the court can just walk over this so completely then I don't see them rallying for anything. It's down to worker power forcing a change by any means necessary.
oh the dems are so shameless, it's disgusting. they can hardly pretend to care, the poetry and singalong shit is insulting.
The Democrats want to receive campaign donations, they do not want to govern. I don't know if they would actually care about the dissolution of their own party anymore. Maybe some lunatic True Believers in the Democratic Brand might, but people who are like that are also opposed to doing anything that would ever "tarnish the democratic institutions" (which is to say, doing anything productive at all).
it's the end of the Court's term. even if they granted cert to case which would put Obergefell in the crosshairs (lib panic aside, they will not do that), any future decision would come out in a subsequent term (next spring/summer at earliest).
