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This approval rating being so low among Republicans just shows how many Republicans are really homophobes and selfish bstrds who donât want the government spending their tax dollars to serve those who are poor, injured, disabled, and sick through the ACA.
According to the survey released Thursday, 76 percent of Democrats approve of the Supreme Court, up from 47 percent in September 2014âŚ
Well that is a little disappointing, the fact that Kennedy is sane on gay rights and that Robertâs didnât want to throw the Health Care Market into a death spiral that would have cost Insurance Companies a fortune is no reason to forget about the hackery of this court in cases like Citizens United or Hobby Lobby. Democrats need to work on their long term memory and not forget some of the dangerous precedents and corporate giveaways set by the Robertâs court, just because the court made a couple of recent sane rulings.
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Yes, agree with you, many people of both sides of the aisle have very short memories, and Democrats seem to forget the damage done to our democracy by the Citizenâs United decision, which basically destroyed much of what used to be the democratic process of holding fair elections.
Those lunatics are only happy if theyâre winning 100% of the time and if people are being hurt.
The BIG deal for me is âCitizens Unitedâ. That was an unequivocal disaster for the Democratic Party and a crippling blow to any fantasy of a true and unfettered democracy. That the majority of Democrats donât see this is very disappointing indeed.
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Back in 2005, after Citizens United was handed down, my mom called, seeking reassurance that it wasnât as bad as she thought it was. And I had to tell her, âno Mom, your impression is exactly right. The Roberts Court did, in fact, just kill democracy. It may lumber along for a few more years like a headless chicken, but itâs over.â
Nothing Roberts has done since then will ever make up for that. And as for the tiny handful of decisions like the ACA decision, itâs just him preserving the Courtâs public legitimacy so that he can get on with his real work. And that work is to continue gnawing away at the the entire body of post 1920âs jurisprudence that drug us out of the worst aspects of the 19th Century like a hive of termites, eating away at the the frame of a house. Bit by bit, he gnaws away the interior of the members which support the entire ediface while ostensibly leaving them in place, until one day, boom, we live amid the ruins of the Gilded Age.
But the public, and Democrats in particular, only know about two or three decisions a year, donât see the long term effects of the ones they donât like and their entire understanding of why they need to vote and vote Democratic no matter how bored or mad about not getting their pony during the last two years they may be. They see the ACA and gay marriage decisions and fail to grasp that âbecause a Supreme Court justice could dieâ is the most important reason to vote in every goddamn federal elections, not just the ones where theyâre feeling it.
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I think the problem with many polls is that they are not specific enough.
If right after the ACA and Gay marriage decisions were handed down, you were asked if you approve of the SC, does that mean the last two decisions or in general.
Your tendency is to show your support of the the recent decisions and thus the approval rating by Dems.
Remember how precious the SupremeCorporation K-RATS were when CU was passed?
Get me a Dem president and a Dem senate so we can get good judges to keep Ginsburgâs seat, upgrade Kennedyâs, and replace Scalia when he finally pops an aneurysm. MAYBE then Iâd have a positive opinion of the court. Until then, Blech!
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This survey shows the foolishness of both the left and right. The Roberts court has made a almost continuous march to the right with a couple of high profile cases going for the left. The right should realize that the court has given them most of what they wanted in ways that are changing the fabric of the nation far more than Obamacare and gay marriage do, but then the right hasnât figured out that 90% of it is voting against their own best interests. The left needs to remember that in case after case they are being hammered by the court and a couple of wins wonât overcome the damage done and to be done by the Roberts court.