I’ve discussed the fascist Supreme Court judges before: Alito and Thomas, nominees from previous administrations, the first who would be comfortable among Hitler’s henchmen because of his eugenics arguments in that leaked draft decision, the second a traitor to all his fellow blacks; Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Comey Bryant, Trump’s nominees, the first there because the Turtle, Moscow Mitch McConnell, scammed Obama so that “f&^%ing moron” could make his three fascist picks, the first two committing perjury by promising the senators from Alaska and Maine to uphold the precedent established in Roe v. Wade (Gorsuch’s promise was made in sworn testimony at a hearing).
Okay, there are four old men and one old woman (Comey Bryant is that Catholic cult member who has been brainwashed by the old men of her church), but you can either count her as taking the dominant and wannabe alpha males side, or court Roberts, whose moderate credentials have always been suspect and will probably feel obligated to side with the majority when it comes to taking away women’s rights. Any way you count them, there’s ample evidence now that McConnell has succeeded in creating a powerful tool to hasten this country’s spiral down into the cesspool of fascism.
Brett Stephens, in a NY Times in a May 4op-ed, argued that “Overturning Roe is Not Conservative.” He’s right! It’s the epitome of fascistic, ultra-right policies. (Mr. Stephens, like Comey Bryant, is a far-right Catholic, so his op-ed was no surprise.) People like him are part of the problem: They motivate and lead the “marching morons” in the same way Nazi propogandists did in 1930s Germany. For all these wing-nuts, only the state can determine what rights people have.
That’s not the only rights they’ll take away, though. Biden mentioned one: Segregation, meaning not letting LGBTQ students be in the same classroom with other students (De Santis’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is a step in that direction). How ’bout banning gay marriage? Use of the pill, IUDs, and other forms of birth control? IVF, especially for gay couples? Women’s right to vote? Anything is possible as the fascists come to power. Considering how many fascists are from red states, maybe they’ll even let “separate but equal” education occur again. (Again, De Santis comes to mind with his banning of certain textbooks in Florida.) And thanks to McConnell’s evil social engineering efforts, there will be zero recourse in the courts of the land! They’re already in control of the fascists.
In considering the fascists’ attack on democratic rights and institutions, one outcome is becoming increasingly more likely: A new Civil War to finish the fascists’ work to divide the country. Maybe that would be a good thing because it would quarantine the crazies in a newly created FSA, i.e. the Fascist States of America. Hopefully this war will be bloodless and nonviolent, but I’m not going to bet on that. Those fences around SCOTUS are an omen that the fascists won’t let it be. But by damn, they’re not getting the entire country! Sane people like me need a decent place to live, so the mentally ill marching morons can’t be allowed to win. We have to fight them! Onward to battle!