Not just the right. "Moderates" on the left will attack anyone on their own team who they see as socialist, every bit as readily. The Democrat party has as its main platform "let's find a way to work with the Republicans", which is funny, because the Republicans don't give a shit, do not appreciate or respond to conciliatory gestures in any way. They never have. They have no plans to. This "news" of the week is not news, the Court is affirming exactly what the right wing has been publically, openly, non-secretly promising its base for the past 48 years of American politics. We're supposed to act surprised that they really meant it; I refuse. They obviously did. They never made any other claim than that they would stuff the Court with their people and "reinterpret" the Constitution to support their theocratic views. And did Democrats take any step, make any motion, to enshrine reproductive rights as actual law before it was too late? Of course they didn't. Their job isn't to protect American lives or rights, but to avoid offending the grindhouse of fascism no matter the human cost of doing so.
They are taking down Roe v Wade this week. They will go for Obergefell v Hodges during the next session, after their party has survived the midterms with roughly similar or slightly improved numbers in the houses of Congress. Then they'll try for Bostock and Lawrence v Texas, either then or the following year. They will do this because they can. Because they are justifiably certain that no one will stand in their way. If the federal government were solely in charge, I would lose the right to marry my partner, then to be employed while with him, then to have sex with him in my own house. Because only the "radical fringe" will attempt any substantive action to prevent them from doing so, and they don't have the numbers to do anything about this and most of them are in "safe states" anyway, so what do they care? Until it is too late, of course. Yes, state government will protect us for a while, but without federal support its power is limited and temporary. "Too late" will come, eventually.
None of this is a surprise. They are using the same tactics and strategies they have been using for more than a century and a half. You know socialism was the actual charge that sent 250,000 Romani people to grisly deaths, right? It was baseless, but they were accused of communism, and that became the legal basis for their extermination by the state. Actual socialism would have to work damn hard to be anywhere near as socially deleterious as anti-Communist paranoia has proven to be in the West. Christopher and His Kind should be required reading for every tepid Liberal. Half-hearted commitment to common decency means nothing, accomplishes nothing, if the people fighting you don't care about propiety or the rules. If intentional offense is their playbook, their public strategy, their recruitment technique. Screeching at them to be more polite, like the Left is polite to them, will do nothing. "When they go low, we go high". And that's how they win every time. It's cheating, but it isn't a secret.
People need to fucking wake up. But that would make them Woke and we can't have that. What would Father say? So they can but they won't.
Oh for the love of god. The decision of whether you marry a man should be made by you and him, not by somebody else who favors or opposes the marriage. The term "pro-gay-marriage" could be taken in two different ways by somebody with a sufficiently neurotic sense of how English works: to advocate that a gay marriage be allowed or to advocate that a gay marriage take place. And yet people keep saying they're "pro-gay-marriage", not "pro-gay-marriage-choice", and never worry that anyone will take them to be saying you and some other man should have to get married whether you want to or not.
So? Obergefell came before Gorsuch was on the court. In Pavan he wasn't reversing himself.
