Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Roe v. Wade

Republicans are liars, hypocrites, and a minority

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Nov 30, 2022
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The group that shouts and whines the most about freedom in the USA is also the group that believes that freedom applies to only them. They do not want you to be free. They want you to be submissive to their paradigms, beliefs, and ways of seeing the world. In the world of Republicans, you do not own your body, and you have no right to decide whether or not you are going to bring a new life into this world.

It is fundamental hypocrisy to demand that unprepared, unqualified women be forced to bring an unwanted child into the world. The Christian right manipulated the political levers of power to ensure they packed the Supreme Court with evangelicals and anti-choice bigots. Democratic leadership is too cowardly to say it out loud, but the Supreme Court is now illegitimate1 as a result. In a just world, every decision it has made since Republican leadership connived to get their radicals onto the bench should be reversed.

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