The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year’s midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year’s elec…

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      1 year ago

      Republicans? No.

      SCOTUS? Yes.

      And as I said, they (SCOTUS) aren’t tone deaf, they’re handpicked Federalist Society religious zealots.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe they don’t, but they have goals they want to achieve, by hook or by crook. While we can all agree that “The ends justify the means!” is a shitty moral philosophy, Democrats, and liberals in particular have this problem where they over-correct to the point where thinking about the ends at all is, in some vaguely reflexive kinda way, innately immoral. And when you spend all your time worrying about how to go about things instead of focusing on what things to go about, you end up not getting anything done because you’re not willing to have an actual position.