The Supreme Court threw up yet more impediments to protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act Thursday — one of the conservatives’ most successful crusades and one that has already become a legacy of the Roberts Court.
“Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.” ― Paul Brunton, Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
Conservatives constantly stack the deck in their favor because they are not honest participants in constitutional majority rule democracy. Cheating is how they stay in control of the levers of wealth and power and exert minority rule on the majority.
I hope America does note that had Hillary Shrillery been elected there’d still be Roe on the books, this horrid decision would not be here, there’d have been no Jan 6, COVID deaths would have been half what was experienced and birth control would not be threatened. Just to start.
For me, the realization that the country can be captured indefinitely by a minority government and there is nothing we can do about any of it (except vote of course, but with difficulty…) is a hard one to fully absorb.
I sympathize, and in my more anxious moments I have the same thoughts. Rationally speaking, though, recriminations do none of us any good in the short- to medium-term. Long-term we may need to have a reckoning, but for now we need to focus on more immediate concerns or else we won’t have a long-term.