It’s not even on paper, and it is helping tremendously - look at the judges being appointed.
The issue is that the majorities (particularly in the Senate) aren’t large enough to get very far on the progressive wish-list, particularly because a fairly significant number of Democrats (both voters and congress-critters) don’t support everything on that list.
Pelosi does a good job of wrangling the House, but Schumer has approximately zero degrees of freedom in what he can do, beyond approve appointments.
I understand the frustration with the (very) slow bend of the arc of justice, but that is the way things get done.
It is on paper. That is why they allow assholes like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in the party and do not send them packing. As it stands, the Dems have a majority in the senate. It’s worthless but it keeps McConnell from running the senate.
You obviously have a different definition of « control » than I have. Senator Schumer and his party cannot get their platform enacted by the Senate. Sure, he’s got procedural powers, like committee chairs and the agenda, but he doesn’t have substantive power to get his party’s platform enacted by the Senate.
I’m not talking about whether Schumer or McConnell is better. From a poli-sci view, it’s not accurate to say that having 50%+1 amounts to « control » in the Senate. Not on the major substantive issues that need legislation to be enacted.
From Civil War to Civil Rights, basically, took one hundred years.
From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to Obergefell, basically, in twenty years.
Malcolm was right, “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
But so was, paraphrasing, Nelson, “We have walked that long road to freedom. We have tried not to falter; we have made missteps along the way. But we have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, we only find that there are many more hills to climb.
We have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds us, to look back on the distance we have come. But we can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and we dare not linger, for our long walk is never ending.”
Just as an interesting point of information, CNN did a complete word-by-word comparison of the leaked draft of this ruling with the final ruling. The only substantive difference is a new section in which Alito attacks the dissent. All the other changes are mostly tiny details like spelling and punctuation. IOW, after the enormous blowback caused by the leaked ruling, whatever further discussion and arguments occurred, Alito’s written opinion changed not a whit, and in fact if anything, he doubled down by adding an attack on the dissent.
Yep. He’s had a gander at the TeeVee and seen all those people who are deliriously happy about this and he wants the credit and the adulation attendant to it. The only lens here is ‘how will this affect me’ and what he says will turn on that dime alone. It’s completely predictable.
I fully understand your point.
I just want to point out that if you (you as in “the pro-Choice side”) never try, you are doing mcConnell’s work for him.
Aside from me having a wicked hangover (despite not having had a drop of ETOH last evening), I awoke with this thought:
“Let the voters decide in November !”
ANALOGY: The accusation is that somebody planted a bomb in your car. Now you’re suggesting we get in that car and drive ? No, thanks !
The anti-choice spokespeople are droning on and on about this being Democracy – let the voters decide.
They’re evil, but not stupid.
We all know about election rigging, electoral process commandeering, Sec o’State sleeper cells, and gerrymandering.
We are not a Democracy (but a Constitutional Republic), but this is so very much like wealthy people saying that they pay “all the taxes that the law requires,” knowing full well that they wrote those laws.
I’m nauseated this morning. Maybe I’m pregnant. Oh, well. So sad, too bad.
Please dial back the inflammatory language. While I appreciate emotions are running high over this issue, it is rarely if ever conducive to useful discussion to introduce slurs against a group in total. If you want to vent your spleen, you know the way to the Pit. Thanks.