Sean CastenThe Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-weve-been-keeping-an-eye?r=5n3e&utm_medium=post+viewer
To the extent that there is something to be optimistic about, it is only that the American people are vastly more open and tolerant than SCOTUS. All of the African American MoCs I got elected with in 2018 represent majority white districts.
…that is a great sign of progress from the 1965 VRA era. But it wasn’t universal - those members are, predominantly from urban / suburban districts where diversity is seen as a strength. So progress, but incomplete and not yet fully tested.
To be clear, when John Roberts says that we are in a “post-racial era” just because we elected a black President, he is full of s*it. And when Sam Alito claims that the reconstruction era’s directives for race-neutrality were designed to protect white Catholics like him, he’s hating on originalism.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@SeanCasten Roberts is the single-most dangerous thing we allowed to happen.
We should have removed him a very, very, long time ago.
f*cking b*tch club@NosirrahSec @SeanCasten I would add that it’s hard to pick “single-most” when McConnell is (unapologetically) still in the Senate.
@grammasaurus @SeanCasten I argue simply as someone that's been alive and at least medium-informed through the 00s to present that Roberts has caused more LASTING damage to the country than McConnell.
Both should have been removed a long, long, time ago. By force if necessary for the safety of our country, but we lost that fight.
Year after year of being told not to sink to their level and watch our rights slip away under their pedestals, not even bothering to stop them.
@grammasaurus @SeanCasten Nazis have effectively won.
We have compelling evidence that our president is a pedophile and no rational human believes he isn't at minimum a rapist; yet we still allowed him to run for president a second term.
We're a feckless country that let Nazis rise to power again in the same lifetime as those that had to kill them before in WW2.
@grammasaurus @SeanCasten I don't like sounding defeated, but my generation has been the whipping child of every single terrible thing that's happened to this world and somehow it's STILL the fucking boomers that are actually to blame for most of this shitshow.
(Turning 42 soon, if we survive that long lol)