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Vulnerable Republicans nervous as 'tone deaf' Supreme Court takes up new abortion case
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They aren't tone deaf, but I do understand why establishment Democrats have a hard time understanding it.
You see, they have an actual ideological political project with goals, and they work to achieve those concrete goals, no matter what.
The festing sore that is our post-labor movement Democratic party doesn't have a larger political project other than "maintain power and influence", which is why they proactively work to co-opt or shutdown any insurgent and ideological left members.
The Democrats can't understand why conservatives would enact policies that may hurt their influence, because they don't understand that the end goal of politics is supposed to be policies, and not just maintaining your own personal fiefdoms of power and insider trading tips.
Edit: I'm talking SCOTUS, which this article incorrectly accuses of being tone deaf.
The Republicans' only agenda is to hurt people and further enrich the wealthy, and you say the Democrats' only goal is power? Stopping the Republicans is a worthy goal all by itself.
It is. But I'm still frustrated that the Democrats cannot put together a coherent platform for change that has any juice in it. Things are not getting better for people and need to change, but the Dems have not strongly pushed a real platform in a while now
A) I was referring to the tone deaf Supreme Court and their larger policy project.
B) The Democratic Party's leadership is not the same as it's voters. But, the fact that you're content with their only achievement being "stop the Republicans" proves my point.
Nothing would make the Democratic leadership happier then to continue to shift the party more to the right to "pickup GOP moderate voters", because ultimately they are all diehard neoliberals. This mentality let's them off the hook for not doing anything to advance larger leftist policies that their voters want, would help the country, but hurt their donors, as well as their own stock portfolios e.g. Universal Healthcare, Pro-Act, etc.
This dude thinks Republicans care about policy 💀💀💀
Isn't the article talking about a "tone deaf Supreme Court"?
Republicans? No.
SCOTUS? Yes.
And as I said, they (SCOTUS) aren't tone deaf, they're handpicked Federalist Society religious zealots.
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.