Reply #32: Lightly dismissing the legitimate concerns of many

[lastliberalintexas]

isn't going to help things, either on DU or in the real world. Are some people probably behaving rather melodramatically? Yes, because their emotions are high. Alito isn't really a single vote, since he is a lifetime appointment to the High Court. Alito can help reshape the US in the image for which the Corporatists have been working since the New Deal was struck.

This isn't just about abortion, or even just about contraception, or even just about an unchecked autocratic executive brach, or even just about the protection of the Bill of Rights, or even just about protection of the one person one vote ideal, or even just about the right to privacy, or even just about rollbacks of worker protections, or even just about the domination of the legal fallacy known as Corporate Personhood.

It's about ALL of them- rolled into one nice and tidy little vote that should be the easiest decision concerning a filibuster that any Dem has ever had to make. For that matter, it should be just as easy for the supposed moderate republicans in the Senate as well.

Should Roberts have been given a pass? Not in my opinion, since he's just as far right in his judicial philosophy. Might he pull a Warren? Maybe, but highly doubtful. The right wing has learned from that mistake, and have made darn sure not to repeat it. Will Alito be the deciding vote? Probably not. It still leaves the Court likely split 5-4 on most issues, but it does give the right the edge on some of *their* most important points. And it also puts them one step closer to control of the High Court for the next generation.

I wouldn't worry so much about the people threatening to leave the party if such and such doesn't happen. There won't be a party to leave if the Dems keep acting as they have been.