Power Begets Power

The people protesting the overturn of Roe v Wade outside of the Supreme Court are wasting their time. That battle has been lost at the federal level… (for now.) The American Taliban (formally known as the GOP) have sufficiently packed courts to ensure the enforcement of their crusade. (Grand Wizard Trump appointed one quarter of the federal bench – for life!) And regardless, the courts aren’t even the right branch to protest. Those lifelong appointees people aren’t reactive to your votes.

For all of the people expressing their anger on Facebook with Handmaid’s Tale memes: I understand the instinct. But there should be equal or greater anger and engagement over the January 6 attempted coup by a sitting president. (Probably only nuclear missiles raining down on our cities would be as an immediate of a crisis for our democracy.) But we mostly yawn through the attempted overthrow of our government… We are amused to death. What’s next on Netflix streaming? 

So, while you’re understandably angry and venting about the loss of women’s reproductive rights, keep an eye on the wizard behind the current’s other hand: other levers are being pulled. With courts packed, the American Taliban are working VERY hard now to hack our voting systems. Even now, at the state level, the machinery is being set in place to ensure that the will of the majority are again not represented in the next election.

Once those levers are thrown, and the scales weighted even further, the American Taliban Party will becoming for your other rights until we’re living in a theocratic / plutocratic nation. All hail America!

Don’t like the Roe v Wade decision? Here’s what’s next on the docket… 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said landmark high court rulings that established gay rights and contraception rights should be reconsidered now that the federal right to abortion has been revoked.

Don’t assume that the ‘pendulum’ is going to swing in the other direction. As Bill Maher says, ‘It’s like being in an arm wrestling contest. You can comeback from here, (gestures 10 degrees deficit). It’s almost impossible to come back from here’ (gestures 80 degrees deficit).

The top fights to concentrate on are voter’s rights and the dismantling of the American Taliban propaganda machine.

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”

~ Jonathan Swift