Increasingly NOT so….
The East and West Coast ‘s as one ….
Most of the Middle and South as another one….
And a High Court which is stepping infront of the politicans to seperate things by rushing to give states’ politicans control of policy instead of Washington….
Will the policy battles won ?…..
Have to have another decade of fight needed to reimpose them?
Or like prohibition or segregation or current voting rights?
Just have Amerrican’s EVERYWHERE find ways to keep what they have had inspite of the Alito 5 and Co. and Conservatives and some Republicans?
Pressed by Supreme Court decisions diminishing rights that liberals hold dear and expanding those cherished by conservatives, the United States appears to be drifting apart into separate nations, with diametrically opposed social, environmental and health policies.
Call these the Disunited States.
The most immediate breaking point is on abortion, as about half the country will soon limit or ban the procedure while the other half expands or reinforces access to reproductive rights. But the ideological fault lines extend far beyond that one topic, to climate change, gun control and L.G.B.T.Q. and voting rights.
On each of those issues, the country’s Northeast and West Coast are moving in the opposite direction from its midsection and Southeast — with a few exceptions, like the islands of liberalism in Illinois and Colorado, and New Hampshire’s streak of conservatism.
Even where public opinion is more mixed, like in Ohio, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, the Republican grip on state legislatures has ensured that policies in those states conform with those of the reddest states in the union, rather than strike a middle ground.
The tearing at the seams has been accelerated by the six-vote conservative majority in the Supreme Court, which has embraced a muscular states-rights federalism. In the past 10 days the court has erased the constitutional right to an abortion, narrowed the federal government’s ability to regulate climate-warming pollution and blocked liberal states and cities from barring most of their citizens from carrying concealed guns outside of their homes….
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Historians have struggled to find a parallel moment, raising the 19th-century fracturing over slavery; the clashes between the executive branch and the Supreme Court in the New Deal era of the 1930s; the fierce battles over civil rights during Reconstruction and in the 1950s and early 1960s; and the rise of armed, violent groups like the Weather Underground in the late ’60s.
For some people, the divides have grown so deep and so personal that they have felt compelled to pick up and move from one America to the other.
Many conservatives have taken to social media to express thanks over leaving high-tax, highly regulated blue states for red states with smaller government and, now, laws prohibiting abortion….
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Conservatives might see the coming years as the moment to pivot toward amassing more national power, if they can seize Congress in November and the White House in 2024. Anti-abortion activists have always had two arguments in favor of ending Roe v. Wade: a legal case that the Constitution does not include a right to end a pregnancy, and a moral case that abortion is murder.
Mr. Severino, again invoking segregation, said that until the legislative and executive branches of government stepped in with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in the 1960s, recalcitrant states failed to integrate their schools after the Supreme Court ordered them to in 1954.
“There are deep parallels here,” he said. “Then, it was what is the value of a human person, measured between Black and white Americans. Here it is the value of a person within the womb and outside it.”
“Some” Republicans?
Hahaha,
Yeah like 97% or so!
Yup….
SOME.…
By a 56%-to-40% margin, respondents oppose the court’s decision, including 45% who strongly oppose it.
Almost 9-in-10 Democrats and a slim majority of independents (53%) are against the decision. Three-quarters of Republicans, on the other hand, support it.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Republicans have gone all in on bring anti choice.
There are simply no GOP leaders of note who are opposed to requiring forced birth.
‘Of Note’…..
The fact IS there ARE Republican women who seek abortions….
Thousands….
One would think that if they become single issue voters?
They COULD become the margins in some races….
As I pointed out….
The Donald HIMSELF is NOT happy with the Courts ruling….
DA’s in Red states have indicated that the will NOT go after people or out of state providers….
Despite the early noise in the media….
Abortion in America is NOT going away….
It’s just gonna be more difficult for Women and Men….
There is NO DOUBT that the Alito 5’s actions will ultimately bring abortion back to those women in Red states in some form….
Alito has done MORE to focus on the fact that the High Court HAS taken the ball given to them by Congress’s INACTION and IS running with it….
Power does NOT sit still in an vacuum …..
Democrats will still NOT fucking row together….
This fucking themselves and American’s in general….
It is NOT helped by a good guy ‘caretaker’ President……
What should the Democrats have done to prevent Alito rulings?
Rowed TOGETHER…..
Congress COULD and CAN get around the court….
You seem to know a lot about this.
Explain how the “rowing together” Democrats can “get around” the Supreme Court .
Ref:….Worry about Trump?…No…The Supreme’s…..
Of course Manchin and Sinema do NOT seem to want row with party on the filibuster, eh?
THAT seals the deal for the Alito 5 and Republicans for now….
Really.
There are Republicans getting abortions?
Wow!
Who would have thunk that?
Some OTHER Republican’s who don’t give a shit…..
Silliness