The Source of All that is going wrong

McConnell, Roberts and co, Garland, the billionaires and dumb people. That’s the source.

Edit: I could add much more incompetent and corrupt people to the list. This has been going on for decades.

Why do I keep seeing posts singling out one dude as the reason that this is all fucked? The current results are a product of countless people, in addition to millions of Americans who voted for candidates who pushed this agenda or didn’t vote at all.

To me, it serves no other purpose than scapegoating one or a few responsible people to shirk the responsibility of the whole. People voted for this fully knowing the results or were too ignorant to care. They deserve a bunch of the blame as well.

RBG should’ve stepped down

Hey, this is a good time to remember that Chief Justice Roberts was given his spot for helping the Bush brothers steal the 2000 election in Florida.

It has been his life’s work to preside over the overturning of the Roe decision, ever since he was a clerk for Rehnquist during the Reagan administration. He authored arguments for the overturning all through the Reagan and Bush years.

The source of all that is wrong is the American people. We’ve collectively asked for this for the past 40 years. We’ve been working toward this. Half of the country is ecstatic. It’s so easy to blame one person.

I would point to Newt Gingrich as the starting point of the unreasonable Republicans

No. He is a product of stupid people voting against their own interests. America needs to look inward and start blaming OURSELVES for our poor choices.

You can put alito, McConnell, garland in one pot as the few key people that have allowed all of this to happen. They do appear to have something in common , other than being inherently evil.

The problems that are taking place are the result of decades of events…..

To say this is an oversimplification is such an immense understatement I can’t even process it.

Capitalism inevitably spirals towards fascism as it decays and the ruling class grasps to halt its descent. That’s why we’re facing world war again, that’s why people are entering into struggle, that’s why the working class is under immense attack. Not because of any one person.

It’s ridiculous to think that America would be some paradise if it weren’t for this or that person. Were the people who are in power now responsible for McCarthyism? The Vietnam war? The crushing of the PATCO strike? The people who are in power now are the result of a system that seeks hegemonic dominance for the American ruling class. They seek to crush the working class at home and abroad.

The source of everything going wrong is the way we vote.

Because we can only vote for a single candidate per position in a given election, people tend to coalesce around two political poles. That method of voting, which is known as first-past-the-post or plurality voting, is the reason the two-party system exists. It creates a political duopoly.

It also creates a national security vulnerability, because as it turns out, if you can take control of one of the two political parties, about half of voters are suddenly going to support basically whatever you do. And that’s what happened in the 2016 presidential primaries.

Trump had the highest unfavorable rating of any candidate in either primary race, but he managed to win because of two things:

1. By the time the first primary elections were held, he was up against about a dozen other Republican candidates who were all basically parroting the party platform of the time (ie. they were all saying the same stuff), while Trump was saying something completely different.

2. The things Trump was saying mobilized a block of voters that had never before had a major candidate espousing their ideology – fascists, nationalists, white supremacists, etc.

Trump only got about a quarter of the vote in those early primaries, but because there were so many opponents all competing for the other 75%, Trump was able to win with those pluralities. A few candidates dropped out, but not nearly enough to stop Trump from almost running the table on Super Tuesday. By the time Kasich and Cruz tried to form a firewall to stop Trump from winning, it was already too late. He had the momentum.

Trump took control of the Republican party and got rid of anyone who wouldn’t bend the knee to him, replacing them with MAGA sycophants. The party backed MAGA candidates for congress, for state leglislatures, for city councils — they took over at every level.

If we could vote for third party candidates and have a reasonable expectation that they could win, they’d get a lot more support than they do right now. Nearly two thirds of Americans support the creation of a third major political party, but they don’t understand that it’s already been tried. It will never work as long as we keep using the current electoral system.

In retrospect, it’s interesting to think about how many of those other 2016 republican primary candidates actually were in it to win it vs. just splitting the vote to give Trump a path to victory. I’d bet at least a few of them were in the race for just that purpose.

So yeah, that’s how Russia hacked our democracy. The two-party system is a national security vulnerability that must be addressed if we are to ever move forward as a country.

I have a feeling Roberts actually might have been a decent chief justice if was forced to negotiate with a liberal justice majority. Which we would have had if Obama wasn’t blocked from his appointment and the country didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. He seems to have at least a bit more of an institutional respect than alito and Thomas, and is more concerned with legacy than partisan agendas.

Someone forgot some brass casings on the sidewalk

Robert’s has been an awful Chief SCOTUS whistling in the wind as rampant corruption has occurred during his tenure. 

He’s far from the “source of all that is wrong”. There’s a number of people id put well in front of him.

That’s not what Lee Atwater looked like.

Biggest POS in American history

When you think about it, it was the supreme court that gave GWB Jr the presidency that ended up bringing us Trump.

RBG should have stepped down under Obama. That’s a lot of why we are here.

The worst Chief Justice since the 19th century 

it’s the heritage foundation.

He’s one of them.

History will not judge him well, that’s for sure. “Official acts” as a boon for an insurrectionist?

THE WORST

If this guy ever had a bad accident or met a Luigi, I would not be unhappy.