This isnât just in the US, itâs worldwide. Throw in the growing attacks on the gay community too, such as the Orlando massacre of 2016 and last nightâs shooting in a gay club in Oslo which killed two people which looks all but certain to be a hate crime.
There genuinely are lads here who would class the destruction of voting rights via judicial warfare as âdemocracyâ, and would cheer on the destruction of democracy because they think theyâre âedgyâ and âa bit of craicâ. Sure thereâs no âwouldâ about it. Theyâve already been doing it for a long time.
Meh, this stuff will result in more Red States flipping as demographics change. They are going to piss off the people who currently arenât bothered voting.
The GOP are on a path to ruin focusing on abortion. Roe v Wade was the perfect get out of jail free for those sitting on the fence on abortion.
Iâd be anti abortion myself but the horse has bolted at this stage. Whatâs the point of making a woman travel from Texas to New York to get it done? Who does that benefit?
Republicans are not making a huge mistake. An assertion that they are holds that US institutions will hold out under the all out anti-democratic attack they are sustaining. They are not holding out and they will not hold out. They are failing dramatically.
The Irish mediaâs hand picked âUS politics expertâ Larry Donnelly is a great example of the sort of mentality that has crippled well meaning but utterly useless liberals in the US.
Larry seems like a nice, harmless chap. His âboth sidesâ understanding of US politics makes Eamon Dunphyâs takes on Spanish football look expert by comparison. Larry claims to be a Democrat but when he looks at Republicans he only sees decent, respectable people who can be negotiated with in good faith. He has great faith in the good faith nature of Republicans.
To call Larry a fucking clueless moron would be a massive understatement. Larry is the exact type of useless corporate Democrat that has hobbled the Democratic party and liberal America in general, who have stood by and enabled this dystopian mess in the name of âreaching across the aisleâ. Morons.
Been a long travelled path but theyâre here now and this is just the beginning.
Gotta hand it to them, evil fucks that they are kept their eye on the ball all the way and now that they have the SCOTUS so skewed, everything they want is up for grabs.
Democracy is a whole eco-system. In America that whole eco-system is completely broken.
That broken nature of the system goes way, way beyond the bare mechanics of the political system - how people are elected and represented - which is itself completely broken.
The paradox of democracy, and of tolerance in general, is that there are certain ideologies which cannot be tolerated, and we all know why that is.
Those ideologies, in their most infamous form, in 1930s Germany, came to power through their abuse and corruption of the democratic system, and the so called upholders of democracy allowing themselves to become either corrupted, hoodwinked or cowed by the holders of these ideologies.
This is exactly what has happened again, in America, and will continue to happen, and get much worse.
Fascists both hide who they are, and tell you exactly who they are.
That so many liberals and âreasonable conservativesâ˘â have fallen for this trick again is the result of both a profound failure of imagination and a grotesque ignorance of history.
Itâs the political equivalent of a man who refuses to go the doctor because âitâs nothingâ and then, when he finally is left with with no alternative but to go, itâs too late, his cancer is terminal.
Maybe Iâm just a little older and aware but The world seems completely messed up at the moment. Between wars, covid, global warming and various political issues it can really bog you down. No one person is responsible or can fix it.
The one thing we can all do is just be kinder in general and help people who are less fortunate.
There is literally no point trying to solve these
Issues by debating with people with opposite opinions.
There seems to be a lot of anger about the Rally for Life march. Lots of âI canât believe so many Indians were there given Savitaâ.
The delegitimising of anti abortion views is well under way. Reality is that abortion has popular support in Ireland, cool the jets trying to make all people who donât agree with it out as assholes.
Thereâs a little bit of everyone that doesnât agree with abortion surely? Unfortunately, the extremists will always be the yard stick when it comes to sensitive issues like this.