• 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If the Dems get a workable majority in both houses and the presidency you’ll at least have fighting chance that they’ll push back on some of this stuff.

    The Supreme Court can undo any legislation in a few years, if not sooner. And the current Court is the culmination of a decades-long right-wing project to exercise exactly that sort of control – that’s the whole reason the Federalist Society was formed, and it’s the reason Republicans blocked Obama from appointing anyone to replace Ginsburg Scalia. They are actually trying to wield power, Democrats are not.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lousy system and a poor set of choices

    The Supreme Court is such a bad system that the bare minimum position from Democrats should be “we are going to pack the court with 10 justices to the left of William O. Douglas.” There’s a whole set of ideas like this that at least match the scale of the problem (an unelected body acting as a super-legislator), but Democrats aren’t interested in any serious solutions. Just like they aren’t interested in serious solutions for climate change, healthcare, education, foreign policy, or practically anything else.

    • notabotEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      I agree with all of this, in that the Dems seem ineffective in actually getting things done. The issue isn’t whether the Dems are a good choice though, they’re not. The issue is whether they or the Republicans will do more damage over the next term. From that perspective, the Dems seem like the least bad choice. It’s a bad place to be, but only concerted effort from a large enough base, over an extended period, is going to change that. As you say, the Federalist Society worked for decades to get here. It’s likely to take effort of a similar magnitude to push it back, unless the Dems get in with a large enough majority at each level that the more sane ones can cause some useful change, and that’ll only happen if they’re pushed by the electorate.