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In reply to the discussion: What message would we send if we quickly rejected Bernie and crowned HRC? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)All the OP says is that getting Supreme Court appointments doesn't justify accepting non-progressive policies on other things. The battle against oppression can't be won in the Supreme Court anyway, no matter how many justices we appoint...it can only be won from below, through continued mass action and grassroots pressure. The Reagan/Bush judicial appointments of the last thirty-four years have made it impossible to ever get a progressive judicial system in this country again.
We need to fight at the ballot box and carry the struggle for justice on in the streets.
The Supreme Court can't be worth accepting perpetual war in the Middle East. War is the ultimate oppression. No one can truly be freed while people are dying on battlefields in wars fought for oil. That's why the Great Society stopped...staying in Vietnam killed it.