“Deserve what we get” is a value judgment that I will not make and should not make. “Responsible for what we get”, however, is very true because what I said is very true, at least for Texas women who are voting Republican or not voting at all.
These people are elected. Women represent half the votes, and I am sure that at least 1 out of 5 Texas men are civilized human beings. That’s sixty percent of the vote, and that’s getting people out of office. Besides, if the Republican Right experienced that kind of defeat, they would start to fear, if not respect, women a lot more simply out of political fear.
How about “Fuck Texas women who vote Republican”? For that matter, “Fuck women in any state who vote Republican”! And while we’re at it, “Fuck Black people and Hispanics/Latinos of any gender who vote Republican”! And white male Republicans, too! Might as well tar everyone who deserves it with that brush.
“Donations” is what the Republicans are doing. Out-of-state Republican organizations dumped millions into everything from dogcatcher on up in the last general election wave–especially school board positions, with their “anti-CRT” nutjobs. The objective is partly to push their anti-education agenda and general racism, but it’s also to deny Democrats an opportunity to develop a bench. They have a long-term plan for maintaining their stranglehold, and they’ve been funding it successfully.
As for lawsuits…the deck is so stacked there that the courts will probably be the last place we can hope for change. In the near term, I think all we can do is ask people outside Texas to pay attention to courts in their regions and push for decent judges there, so that there’s a good place to land when we manage to get cases removed from or appealed above the Texas courts.
You’re not, but Skypist was. And I am not insinuating that Texan women deserve what they get. My heart breaks for them. I’m thankful that the state I’m in didn’t go that route (though with Northern Virginia being pretty damn blue, the deep red of southern Virginia is offset)
Great_Antibob said that there is a question of which states and issues should be prioritized. I want to help Texans, but they are not top of my list, from pure selfishness. I don’t think that “sane” Texan women are stupid for not uprooting their lives and leaving, if they are even able to. That would make the ones who cannot even more at risk.
I have family in southern Virginia, I have family in Georgia. West Virginia. Alabama. The states I have direct connection to will get the highest priority, but I want to help anywhere I can.
And… Not at all reluctantly… Fuck SCOTUS for fucking up life for so many people (not just women)
And related to this series of suggestions… Well, particularly this 1.
There seem to be a lot of people who consider it to be a high virtue to not at all care where someone else stands politically. I had this discussion with someone just last night. He was saying that he doesn’t ever disengage based on someone’s politics, and also, don’t hate him for his. Well, do your politics take away my rights? Do mine take away yours?
I’m allowed to cut ties with someone who is voting to reduce the rights, hell in some cases the humanity of others. It’s not a virtue to shrug and say well, sure, they are a bigot at the ballot box, but they make a mean spaghetti sauce so of course we’re still buddies. And that seems to be the mindset of some people.
Just for the hell of it (pun kinda intended) I did a search on “catholic” and “trisomy 18.” The first page I got was this one, which includes the following:
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church it is gravely immoral to support a couple’s decision to end the pregnancy through an early induction of labor when the developmental stage of the fetus is incompatible with life outside the uterus and when neither the mother’s health nor the fetal life are in danger
(Emphasis, of course, added.)
Now the RCC has had 1,500 years or so (since the first councils) to practice splitting hairs, so it’s entirely possible that a Church authority might conclude that Ms Cox’s condition wasn’t sufficiently dire to justify an “early induction” (i.e., abortion). On the other hand, the fact that her ability to have more children was in danger could tilt the scales the other way. In any case, the fact that the Paxton and the Texas Supreme Court take a more draconian stand than the RCC tells me volumes about their level of human decency.
But Texas has to take a hard line on medical exceptions or some pregnant 13 year old mentally ill child that was raped by her father might get an exception on the grounds of mental health, and all the hard work they put into oppressing women and causing suffering for people they don’t like will all be for nothing.
They’re not even consistent in how they are awful.
In defending themselves against a lawsuit, Texas officials have argued that an “unborn child” may not have rights under the US constitution, putting them in tension with arguments made by the state’s attorney general’s office as well as Republican lawmakers to support restrictions to abortion.
Must train the children to be good and compliant citizens of the upcoming dictatorship. Don’t question authority. Obey the designated leadership. Don’t push back. Accept your fate.
We have to stop thinking about “party loyalty” uber alles and actually look at what a particular group of people is doing! That is what matters. The Republican Party has become the West’s version of the Taliban. Is that what you actually want? The best thing you can do for your party is to vote the radical right candidates out of office. The Republican Party would return to sanity in short order.
