The timing is interesting, isn't it? The final decision would have been / will be released soon in any event. This decision was certainly going to effect November elections. Does the early release make a difference? Will passions abate somewhat by then, or will this mean more time to build war chests?
I don't see much movement on midterm votes due to this decision. People are still livid about how team blue handled coof, and that includes parents pissed about closed schools, kid vax/mask mandates and now CRT, alphabet Mafia teachers, etc. These former dem voters are not extreme single-issue voters seeking limitless abortion into during actual childbirth. Priorities have changed this past two years, this extremist reaction merely appeals to the extremist 30% (max) that resides in a constant lather.
I am a longtime moderate Democrat who voted a straight Republican ticket for the first time in the November 2021 elections in VA, for all the reasons you mention. I am strongly pro-choice but will probably still vote Republican this coming November, consistent with your argument above.
However, this Supreme Court decision following on all of the covid mandates is giving me a lot of food for thought. And I'm wondering if I might end up aligning with more of a libertarian viewpoint in the future (the political and philosophical perspective, not necessarily the US political party).
I never thought of myself as a libertarian in the past, but I have also never seen such serious threats to liberty in this country as I've seen in the past few years (not to mention other western countries, especially Canada).
The level of threat we've seen in the past two years to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to operate one's business, and freedom of medical and bodily autonomy is IMO unprecedented in my lifetime. I find it terrifying, and in my opinion this threat transcends normal political divisions.
As I've expressed here, in my mind the right to abortion (esp in the 1st trimester) falls firmly within the bounds of bodily and medical autonomy, so it is disconserting to see so many here who I thought supported those principles abandon them when it comes to abortion.
The early release provides the Left with an opportunity to bully some Justices into changing their minds. If that doesn't work, it provides more fundraising and organizing opportunities. And as I posited elsewhere in thread, we will likely have a summer far worse than that of 2020.
The timing is interesting, isn't it? The final decision would have been / will be released soon in any event. This decision was certainly going to effect November elections. Does the early release make a difference? Will passions abate somewhat by then, or will this mean more time to build war chests?
If nothing else, it signals that the left will break any rule in order to get what they want.
I don't see much movement on midterm votes due to this decision. People are still livid about how team blue handled coof, and that includes parents pissed about closed schools, kid vax/mask mandates and now CRT, alphabet Mafia teachers, etc. These former dem voters are not extreme single-issue voters seeking limitless abortion into during actual childbirth. Priorities have changed this past two years, this extremist reaction merely appeals to the extremist 30% (max) that resides in a constant lather.
I am a longtime moderate Democrat who voted a straight Republican ticket for the first time in the November 2021 elections in VA, for all the reasons you mention. I am strongly pro-choice but will probably still vote Republican this coming November, consistent with your argument above.
However, this Supreme Court decision following on all of the covid mandates is giving me a lot of food for thought. And I'm wondering if I might end up aligning with more of a libertarian viewpoint in the future (the political and philosophical perspective, not necessarily the US political party).
I never thought of myself as a libertarian in the past, but I have also never seen such serious threats to liberty in this country as I've seen in the past few years (not to mention other western countries, especially Canada).
The level of threat we've seen in the past two years to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to operate one's business, and freedom of medical and bodily autonomy is IMO unprecedented in my lifetime. I find it terrifying, and in my opinion this threat transcends normal political divisions.
As I've expressed here, in my mind the right to abortion (esp in the 1st trimester) falls firmly within the bounds of bodily and medical autonomy, so it is disconserting to see so many here who I thought supported those principles abandon them when it comes to abortion.
Good points! I just hate how that 30% or less manage to suck all the oxygen out of a room most of the time...
The early release provides the Left with an opportunity to bully some Justices into changing their minds. If that doesn't work, it provides more fundraising and organizing opportunities. And as I posited elsewhere in thread, we will likely have a summer far worse than that of 2020.
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I have thought the same and it seems to me to be more advantageous to the right than the left for early release. But who knows?!
better a weekday than a Friday afternoon!