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@ministerforsocialexclusion is there any reason for optimism about this country anymore? asking for about 67 million friends.

If people turn out and vote in November, and if we can retake Congress, then we can block a lot. If people want to start protesting en-masse and intimidate GOP legislators that could help too. And show that you back up the Democrats and others in blocking and fighting.

It’s gonna be a pitched battle up to 2020, and right now the best we can do is try to halt and slow down things. And show anger.

You know what my fear is, though. The Supreme Court doesn’t motivate Democrats. It motivates the dominionist evangelical yahoos who look at The Handmaid’s Tale as a lighthearted romp through their ideal future and think Saudi Arabia has the right idea on LGBT rights.

Those are the people who are going to be fired up right now, just like in 2016. And we’re going to spend our time on the left rehashing petty purity tests and getting the Greenie pearl-clutchers telling us that stopgaps aren’t enough.

Like, logically, I see your point and it motivates me to vote even more. But is it gonna be enough to overcome the vicious tide this will churn up? IDK.

And to end this at least on a lighthearted note, my response to Emily is:

I have never understood the lack of attention given by the left to the Supreme Court and its importance. Like I know that anarchists and the like don’t want laws and whatnot but the Supreme Court has consistently been the primary source of advancement in rights and freedoms, especially in the last several decades. Particularly when leftists and the like didn’t do much about legislative losses because the court has always been sort of a workaround (which isn’t healthy in any sort of democratic or republican system of government but that’s another issue) and now that’s basically gone.

My friend just messaged me about emergency drinks tonight so I’ll probably also be doing both.

Most Americans cant name a single Supreme Court justice and Democrats draw from a base of people that are less likely to obsess over the court because of economic, age, and culture related reasons.