Alito wants ppl to think Dems want “complete power”. But Ds just want to maintain pluralism&ability for parties to compete fairly. Pretending Ds want total control is a way to convince people that the Republican power grab is in self-defense. From @jbouie.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...
It's wild that the idea of giving people the mere OPTION to have abortions, IVF, or gender-affirming care is seen as a totalitarian imposition on people who oppose those procedures. They truly see themselves as earthbound soldiers for their god, enforcing his will.
They’ll tell you god gave us free will and that god will judge you for how you use it, but then they’re too frightened by it. So they rationalize that they’re enforcing god’s will by stopping you themselves.
I don’t know why this got five whole likes in the past couple days but I still want this
It would be the sweetest poetic justice to fuckin Gitmo the lot of them and have it be 100% legally justifiable (SCOTUS be damned) — or at least justifiable in the eyes of history/the world
One might argue "the left" feels so strongly that certain policy prescriptions would be good for all that they'd seek "total control" to implement them. But the idea that capital-D Dems want total control is laughable. They're always looking for ways to avoid policies that challenge capital.
was thinking the same. Nowadays "liberals" insist strongly on policies guided by science, facts, empiricism, human rights taken together it gels into some sort of concept of a predominant 'natural order' I imagine that to some this may start to feel like a sinsiter puch to grab total control.
This. Every fascist/authoritarian movement characterizes itself as defending against insidious and overwhelming enemies. It is the fundamental belief that justifies increasingly extreme measures to confront, persecute, and ultimately eradicate them.
That's always how they frame things - as if we were forcing people into abortions, marrying same-sex partners, and putting solar on their homes. I mean, I admit I would GLADLY force them to give up their guns, OK, but mostly, I'm "you do you, I just get to exist in public (in front of your kid) OK?"
For my entire adult life, the ongoing conservative rationalization has been "we know Dems are cheating even though we have no evidence, so we *have* to cheat or they'd have an unfair advantage!"
