If you refuse to vote for Democrats because they don’t perfectly align with your progressive ideals, this is what you get - potentially decades of work implementing environmental, anticorruption, and social justice rolled back by a court that has been stacked with extreme right wingers to legislate from the bench for unpopular outcomes.
There is one viable party that both implements more progressive policies and names judges that will uphold them - do not throw your vote away.
I realized a long time ago that one of the fundamental flaws in our three tiered government system is that there is no check and balance on the supreme Court.
If i, a not very bright person, can figure out that there is a gaping flaw in a system that is ripe for exploitation, then it makes sense that other people did as well.
What we need is an addendum to the system to put a check on the supreme Court. A path by which should the supreme Court enact a law that is widely decryed as not being in tune with the American sense of justice that we can overrule them and possibly disbar them from a lifetime appointment on basis of judging to their own selfish interest rather than the interest of the American soul.
For further clarification, my ideal system would be that should the house choose to impeach a supreme Court Justice and then the supporting of their impeachment would be brought to popular vote by the American people.
Sure that’s a little clumsy, but it allows for not just political motivation to rule the Day when it comes to correcting our supreme Court and checking their power.
Quick edit, I would probably also make this a required vote at every congress. At least once a year the house has to vote whether or not to keep the current justices in power or to turn their Fates over to the American people.
Democrats don’t align at all not perfectly, not imperfectly, not just a little but zero
a right leaning conservative religious Catholic with a prosecutor as vice does not align at all with progressive ideas
how the fuck is Biden and Harris progressive?
he sat back and asked for more donations while roe v wade fell
does nobody remember him bitching he did not want his kids on the bus with certain other people
what about the crime bills
what about the recent right leaning immigration policies
not being Trump is not progressive
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true
nothing accomplished and Trump’s did not fare any better
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/
The kind of blind support Trump and Biden have is how the US got to where it is today
football politics with nothing more needed than a “D” or an “R” and pick a color “Red” or “Blue” and blindly shout how your team is better than that piece of shit other party that constantly tries to make sure your team loses
too bad this election is already a lost
It’s not blind support and you’re being disingenuous by calling it that. What’s being said is that, of the TWO choices we have at this point, Trump is absolutely the worse pick for any sort of progressive agenda. To go with the bus analogy, do you want to get on the bus that might head one block in the right direction when your destination is the next town over, or do you want to get on the bus going miles in the complete opposite direction? And keep in mind, you HAVE to get on one or the other bus.
So what are you going to do? Sit out? Republicans winning pulls the Democrats further to the right - since the majority of the votes went to the right; it doesn’t make them think “by golly, most of the nation is to the left of us!”. The most progressive viable party receiving an unquestionable mandate from voters would pull them towards a more progressive position.
