2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: President Obama sends clear message to Bernie or Busters ... [View all]puffy socks
(1,473 posts)The SCOTUS doesn't just decide social issues. It was the SCOTUS that broke up Standard Oil monopoly, for instance.
If you truly care about your kids you had better take the SCOTUS as the ultimate important issue in this election because it means we'll have more run-away corporate governance and associated global warming.
It is the SCOTUS that took away freedom of speech in 2006 Bong Hits for Jesus.
It is the SCOTUS who allowed the Citizens United funding to continue.
I really can't understand how the rage of some people prevents them from seeing this.
" If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but youre not going to get what you want. And if you dont get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that's never been the source of our progress. That's how we cheat ourselves of progress." ~Obama
This is the Progressive's biggest problem. It keeps us from being unified.