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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJared Yates Sexton - A Long and Slow Unraveling: The Systematic War on Open Society
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Jared Yates Sexton
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The GOP is historically unpopular, but is continuing to grasp onto power by any means necessary, including subverting democracy and using violence and intimidation.
The Court allowing Texas to destroy a woman's right to choose was only the beginning.
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A Long and Slow Unraveling: The Systematic War on Open Society
As a Supreme Court stolen by the GOP refuses to stop a regressive anti-abortion law in Texas, it's necessary to remember how we reached this moment
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
9:35 AM · Sep 1, 2021
Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
The GOP is historically unpopular, but is continuing to grasp onto power by any means necessary, including subverting democracy and using violence and intimidation.
The Court allowing Texas to destroy a woman's right to choose was only the beginning.
1/
A Long and Slow Unraveling: The Systematic War on Open Society
As a Supreme Court stolen by the GOP refuses to stop a regressive anti-abortion law in Texas, it's necessary to remember how we reached this moment
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
9:35 AM · Sep 1, 2021
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-long-and-slow-unraveling-the-systematic
The moment Merrick Garlands nomination to the Supreme Court was subverted so the Republican Party could stock the bench it was obvious where this was all going. After all, it was a process that had begun decades earlier as the GOP set their sights on the judiciary around the country, filling positions with jurists vetted, educated, and advocated by the Federalist Society, a project obsessed with reversing generations worth of progress in order to reconstitute a government in explicit favor of white, wealthy men.
News that the Court declined to rule on an oppressive and cruel anti-abortion law in Texas was only the latest result of this long, long project. The Supreme Court has an established Right Wing-bent now with an impenetrable majority that favors corporate rights and serves as a firewall for any progressive reform, even while the GOP and conservatism become more and more unpopular with the voting public. This ensures that, as long as that majority remains intact, it doesnt matter if Republicans are incapable of winning another presidential election or even mounting much of a political movement. The work of men like Senator Mitch McConnell and a network of hidden billionaire financiers has created a seat of power that, at the moment at least, seems insurmountable.
There is a horror to this. Women around the country, particularly in Republican-dominated states, face a constantly diminishing standard of living in which Roe V. Wade and other definitive cases remain untouched for the moment but their realities become more and more restricted with every passing day. It is part of a system of hard and soft measures that have systematically shrunk open society and liberal democracy and effectively altered the political landscape within the United States of America.
Many live in denial that this is happening, that open society and liberal democracy are both in crisis, because the Right Wing pursuit has been largely hidden behind focus-group tested rhetoric and kept mostly behind closed doors. Talking about judiciaries is mostly left to experts and obsessives. Legislation is, by design, incredibly hard to parse and can obscure so much behind legal jargon. And, not to mention, our media remains dedicated to covering our politics like its a game or sport in which playing hardball is simply a means to an end.
But this isnt a game.
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Jared Yates Sexton - A Long and Slow Unraveling: The Systematic War on Open Society (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
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Budi
(15,325 posts)1. This is the TRUTH of history that so many fail to admit.. K & R
"Many live in denial that this is happening, that open society and liberal democracy are both in crisis, "
Keep knitting hats!
Keep knitting hats!
2naSalit
(86,061 posts)2. K&R!!!