America is Fucked
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To people who say don't vote, how is this ruling not the direct result of voting?
Americans voted for Bush twice, he appointed three far-right justices.
Americans in their infinite wisdom then elected Donald Trump as president, he did the same.
Along the way American voters elected a conservative House and Senate under Obama, denying him the ability to appoint an additional liberal justice.
All along the way you had people arguing it didn't matter including people on the left like Bernie Sanders' former press secretary here...
These elections were very close, in fact Bush and Trump both "won" with a minority of the vote. That points to the fucked up American electoral system, but it's also just a fact that if a few thousand people had voted differently in key states Roe vs Wade would not have been overturned.
- Bush only appointed Roberts and Alito. There was no third.CyBrainX
- Fun fact: Without he Electoral College Clarence Thomas would be the the only pro-life justice.CyBrainX
- Oh yeah sorry, Bush only appointed two theocratic far-right justices :) But without either of these very close elections it wouldn't have happened.yuekit