The religious right ran around for 40 years threatening Roe and campaigning and donating and consolidating power, recruiting money and power and getting things like $$$ = speech, women = chattle and immigrants = aliens into the venacular.
To SLOW that march now would take 80 years of the same level of pushback...first to slow the march, then to stop it and finally to reverse it back to where we were in 1973!
That would be nearing the end of the lifespan of my children and probably my grandchildren (should I be lucky enough to have any)...
We tremble and quake whenever the goddamn 2nd amendment gets wavied around yet we cower and hide when the 1st amendement is bastardized and attacked relentlessly?
We have accepted a stacked Supreme Court - illegally packed with ideologues and liars.
We have passively accepted gerrymandering that makes every Republican vote have the same heft as 2 to 2.5 Democratic votes.
We have watched our mothers, daughters, sisters and nieces be stripped of autonomy and agency for their own bodies.
In short, we are now facing the fruits of 45 years of relentless attacks that have become the very definition of the immovable object. I do not believe this can be reversed for exactly that reason - the time it would take to do so in no longer measured in timescales that people can abide. A human lifetime is at best an average of 80 years. It will take more than that to get back to baseline now. That does not inspire people to action. But the horrors of the overreach in the current GOP hatred IS enough to motivate, painful enough to move people into action.
The status quo cannot hold for long. The GOP wishes to make it WORSE, which can only accelerate the inevitable - a partitioning of the union and a split of the nation. It is coming. It NEVER was fully healed after 1865. The original sin of this nation is still rending it in two as we approach the 250 year mark that will become the marker of the end of the First Republic, the partitioning of the continent and the dawn of the Second Republic.
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