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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKavanaugh Is A Full Fledged White Supremacist & A True Nazi.
We saw the real Kavanaugh today. We saw a hyper partisan who will make Scalia look like a liberal. Now we will have 5 of them on the court. And very conservative Catholic. At least 4 are RW Catholics who believe that birth control itself is a sin. So expect that to be banned as well, when personhood is affirmed.
eleny
(46,166 posts)rec'd
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I have been following this crash since Reagan. It took decades to get here. There were set backs for them, but certain things kept moving forward even when Clinton and Obama were president. They made the mistake of buying into the bipartisan garbage. Like Chamberlain they believed that one could bargain with Hitler.
Bipartisanship has been a ruse pushed by the GOP. Think about it, every time the Democrats tried to move forward on something the GOP yelled partisanship corruption. Then the Democrats relented and even abandoned their own base. Clinton and Obama abandoned their base FOR bipartisanship. We are in the situation today partly because of that.
Unless something happens to stop them you will see terrifying events never seen in this country. Child separation is nothing to them when you look at what is in store. The militarized police are on their side. Look at who the police protect during demonstrations.
eleny
(46,166 posts)It does sound wild given the America we were brought up in. But it would't surprise me at all if this comes to be our reality.
I believe that Dems abandoned their own party since the leadership compromised themselves. Those of us who try to pull our Party back to the left get a finger wagging from our own.
9/11 was the opportunity to create a major shift and the right wing took it and ran with it. Soon we'll be scrambling to keep our noses above a water line.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)At least for a few months the drift to where we are stopped. People forgot how bad Bush was. I just do not know what to expect. Never imagined we would be at this point.
eleny
(46,166 posts)As if democracy floats on by itself.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Which means that people who are that heavily religious support rapists. Let's use this against them.
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)and sadist. And short-tempered, self-serving, hypocritical, elitist....
joemac
(3 posts)As a progressive Canadian who, more than anyone I knew in real life estimated Trump would be worse than anyone could imagine, he's exponentially worse. It makes my head explode thinking about what's happened to our friends south of the border. I feel for you.