This Supreme Court term has been catastrophic in ways I never imagined were possible,
- Expanding the right to own guns
- Eliminating the right for women to control their own bodies
- Putting the rights of women to receive medical treatment or even to travel however they want or need at risk
- Setting a precedent that could overturn gay marriage, the right to contraception, interracial marriages and more.
I’m appalled, and I’m afraid. Our little family, in safely blue (I think) IL, is shaken — stressed and anxious about what might come next, here and around the nation.
This November’s election was going to be difficult for Democrats. The stock market has been a shambles, crime and mass-shootings seem to be off the charts, the war in Ukraine has bogged down, and prices for essentials like gas and food are way up.
It would be a hard time for incumbents for any party in control of the Oval Office to seek re-election.
But now it’s become simple, and the need is dire.
November must be all about Roe. We democrats need to do everything we can to win big in November.
It’s the only chance we have to overturn the actions of this reprehensible, deplorable, extreme court. Polls have shown a majority of the nation support Roe remaining the law of the land. We need to turn out that vote, to get every single vote we can to shift Congress to the party that believes in women’s rights, and the rights of all people to determine their own future.
The banner at the top of the page on kos says “News You Can Do Something About.” This is our power. It’s the primary power we’ve always had: to vote, and by voting to shape the future.
It’s all about November now.
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Edit: @Transpower has written a short, powerful post that points out that transfolk are too often forgotten about in the conversation about the Supreme Court’s decisions.
The rights and lives of transfolk are every bit as much on the line in these decisions as are all others’. They deserve to be seen and heard.
My use of the term “women” in my writing wasn’t intended to be exclusive, but I see how it reads that way. I’ll try to be more inclusive in the future.
On to November.