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I am so fucking tired of living in this shithole country.
Fingers crossed this stuff keeps people galvanized to vote cons the fuck out of each branch of government in 2024. My hope is that trump's term and the Dobbs decision will push the gop to implode. They can't back away from pandering to far right christians, the older generations are dying off, and hopefully moderate-leaning conservatives will choose to not vote, since I doubt they'll let themselves vote for democrats.
Though this'd also likely lead to far right extremists ramping up their violence as they feel themselves losing power
Fingers crossed this stuff galvanizes people to realize that voting is, at best, a temporary stopgap and they will need to be a bit more active in the whole political process. What happened to the riots that were promised if Roe vs. Wade was overturned? When the Democrats fall in lockstep with the far right extremists how will you hold them accountable?
That is what overturning Roe vs. Wade is about. The parent article is a story of far right extremists ramping up their violence as American empire loses power. Is your plan to vote that away? It hasn't worked for the last 40+ years.
Honestly I'm surprised we didn't get George floyd/blm levels of protest after Dobbs was official, though a lot of it would've been moot since liberals and progressives have spent several decades disarming themselves and fostering a hatred towards guns. Christian nationalists don't give a single fuck about peaceful protests and if things come to blows, our side is the one with far less firepower and far less zealots willing to risk personal harm for this topic (not saying the second one is good or bad morally, just pointing out that the right's fostering of that kind of zealotry is an additional hurdle we'll face).
I was specifically referring to extra-judicial here. If/as they understand they can't force their draconian laws on everyone through the normal channels of government, they'll switch to embracing direct, physical violence as a first resort.
They absolutely are and pretending they're not is stupid. They're a last resort, but they're still a tool that needs to be on the table if worst comes to worse. Soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box.
Please, I'm engaging this conversation in good faith so don't take my words out of context. I am not encouraging the use of violence out of hand and I think you know that. I'm encouraging a healthy respect for a tool of last resort, and a deterrent against things progressing to the point where we want to use that last resort. Armed but peaceful protests often result in less violence from the cops and alt right counter protesting, because at the end of the day they see disarmament as an invitation for violence.
There's a reason that if you go far enough left, you start to get your guns back. Some people still understand that right wingers and the elite would prefer fascists and genocide to losing control.
This is why they leaked the decision but said "it could change it's not the final decision" to slow roll the information and make it less likely people would take direct action.
I have been hearing this since the 90s, and keeps not fixing the problem.
Can't really fix it when they're allowed to brainwash and indoctrinate the new generations to be just as awful and just as intellectually devoid.
In the 90s boomers weren't dying off in large amounts, conservative bastions weren't in overwhelming support of abortion rights when left to the peoples' vote, and Texas of all places wasn't turning purple in state-wide elections. Things have absolutely changed from a population standpoint and gop leaders have shown that they're terrified of the millenial+Z vote, which trends significantly more liberal (and the millenial vote has not shifted conservative with age, as older generations did), now being larger than the boomer vote.
Things are absolutely changing if you pay attention to the data. That being said, it's still something that only changes over the course of generations, and the gop's fraternization with Christian nationalists has created a monster that they're now losing control of. We're at a phase where things will either start to get better because of right wing ideology losing the numbers game, or right wingers lashing out at their loss of control will lead to them taking over via less democratic means (their capture of the SCOTUS is a more tame example of what they might try).