Thursday, June 30, 2022

 My thoughts on this historic moment:

If you are only fighting to regain Roe v Wade or to codify abortion rights, than you are at least 50 steps and battles behind the dark money evangelical oligarchs working longer than I have been alive to turn this country into a Christian fundamentalist theocracy. If you're not tackling the imbalance of power in having a corrupted Supreme Court (which was designed to be the check on legislative and executive overreach but there is no constitutional framework to check them.... The founders assumed judges would be impartial or balance each other's biases believing they would be (hu)men of honor to their oaths and the only check on them is that they can't alter any policy or precedent until a case comes before them.). Things are going to continue to descend into darker and darker timelines if you don't redress and balance out the corrupted on the court with fair impartial justices (of any party -- and there ARE conservatives of integrity not owned by the federalist society.). 

And if you're using this moment to campaign finance or cherry pick just the abortion issue to legislate on, you're missing the most important moves on the chessboard..... 

And don't even get me started on how idiotic it is as a party strategy to have been running campaign finance ads for the most despicably ultra-maga zealots and expect those loyal to a demagogue won't vote for them simply because of the letter after their name. Stop expecting those who choose to drink the Kool aid to make logical rational choices. Tribal group think isn't rational. It's tribe trump's all and all you're going to do is get more boeberts and mtgs by this idiotic funding decision. When it comes to voting, republicans aren't logical at this point, they are full of fears and so they are rabidly loyal to their own team and all outsiders are a non-starter. If you wanted to fund anyone for primaries, you should have gotten centrist Dems or libertarians to run as Republican who would talk the talk then vote with Dems on individual rights issues after they were elected. If you're going to fund your enemies, that's how you do it, by subversion not by supporting the extremists hoping the followers will realize they're batshit Followers of demagogues and cults won't see the bat shit, they'll only see the R.... 

Anyway. Need to run. Have rush tickets to APT production of The Brothers Size in the Touchstone for tonight. Ciao bella. 

Also though. Look at the whole chess board, not just this most recent outrage, if you hope for any chance to turn these defeats into a win.....

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