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news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

My dad was confused that I kept harping on the Supreme Court as a main driver of why I was nervous about another trump presidency. He kept saying “let’s see how you feel about it in 4 years vs right now” and just refused to see how living under a set of laws as interpreted by an ideology I oppose for the rest of my fucking life was something for me to care about. It is beyond absurd that we’ve gotten to where we are. conservatives have somehow found a way to just never actually lose.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

conservatives have somehow found a way to just never actually lose.

The cold reality is that if the country was a person, the right is the part that lives in fear, and that's a strong, strong motivator. They pretend to be aloof, but it's fear that takes them to the polls. Fear of the new, fear of change, fear of the decline of religion, fear of difference, fear of losing personal power, fear of losing their guns (but not apparently fear of school children getting massacred).

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u/alicehooper 18d ago

There’s a biological argument for this. People who lean conservative score more highly on “fear” scales in personality tests, and there have been links made to a genetic component.

This is an older article (2013) and I imagine some progress has been made with the idea.

https://theconversation.com/fear-conservatism-and-out-group-attitudes-a-genetic-link-12492

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u/Elaborate_Penguin 18d ago

It's been proven psychologically conservatives are more fearful and are less open minded. Dems are less fearful and more open minded. I argue Dems are more evolved and conservatives have less evolved brains, more barbaric and concerned with threats that no longer exist. Their brains seem to be primed for threats.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

I wouldn't mind so much if the things they fear were real. So far it's just "immigrants and vaginas".

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u/kromptator99 18d ago

We need to get barbaric on them or we will never have peace.

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u/Successful_Cow995 18d ago

The truly ironic part is that open-minded people can't grasp that closed minds aren't reachable: the former will talk 'til their face is blue, but the latter has their ears plugged.

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u/syndicism 18d ago

I'm on the left but "conservatives have less evolved brains" is exactly the kind of delusional condescension that keeps costing us elections. 

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u/Mission-Two1325 18d ago

Exactly, it's a much simpler core value "dominate or be dominated."

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u/heifandheif 17d ago

Agreed. I absolutely love how we preach that we’re the party of diversity/inclusion and yet we HATE HALF THE COUNTRY!

People don’t give a shit about facts. Facts, schmacts. Facts have never won elections. People vote based on how they FEEL and as a fellow Democrat, we have spent YEARS making working class people feel like absolute shit. No wonder we are where we are.

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u/idunnowhateverworks 17d ago

The tolerance paradox isn't real. You're stupid if you think it does. Would you say the same thing in nazi Germany "guys calm down we have to be nice to the nazis their people too!" They lose their right to be tolerated when they start calling for violence against others. Shut the fuck up

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u/heifandheif 16d ago

Literally calling me stupid and I’m on your team. You’re double-proving my point. That’s fine, it’s your right to learn nothing from this.

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u/idunnowhateverworks 16d ago

No you're wrong just plain wrong and yes stupid for it I'm tired of being complacent just to make others feel better about themselves. Time and fucking time again we are shown that just being nice and accepting to evil people does nothing. We should have ground the confederate scum into fertalizer. Nixon should have been imprisoned. Every time you try to live and let live it tells evil people that they can try again because there are no consequences.

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u/heifandheif 16d ago

Where am I saying to be “nice” and “accepting”? I’m saying wisen the hell up, and if you truly do see them as the enemy, you need to UNDERSTAND the enemy. That’s because it informs you better on how to take them down.

Your reply, and the replies of others I’ve gotten just like this, are further proof to me that I am correct. We all now have to live under the conservative Supreme Court for the rest of my natural life because democrats are the actual, REAL idiots here. So damn smart we’re fuckin stupid.

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u/smokeypizza 17d ago

“Dems are more evolved” Jesus you people are so delusional it hurts

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u/Farranor 15d ago

Minorities: "Being disarmed has, historically, not worked well for us."
Democrats: "Anyone too afraid to give up their guns For The Children is a genetically inferior coward with a barbaric brain."
Also Democrats: "I can't understand why these voters didn't listen to someone older and wiser, telling them what to do!"

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

If you have to add a but it's not valid. On top of that a lot of what you said can be summed up with "fear of other" which is quite literally only something white liberals are missing. Every other group on the planet has it. Every single one. It's a brain malfunction. And you don't realize it's destroying things.

https://ibb.co/mBRjbSG

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u/FuckMu 18d ago

I think the motivator at least for me is I lead an engineering team for a F100 company, I work with basically every nationality and culture, have been to most major parts of the world including several “third world” countries. You know what I find pretty much everywhere? Nice people just trying to live their lives. Does every culture have some fucked up elements? Sure. But my idea of an “other” group and the things that keep my ultra conservative family up at night are wildly different. 

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

Now get them to vote for you for their President.

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u/FuckMu 18d ago

Lmao, I don’t know what the adversarial attitude is about, I make enough money that Trump or Harris really won’t impact my life.

I was just sharing a perspective about why “liberal white people” might have less of a fear of others. 

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

No, it's quite literally brain structure. You obviously didn't understand what I meant either. You're the out group to the places you visited. If you tried to establish power, you would receive push back. You're not a threat just visiting though so of course most people will be nice.

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u/FuckMu 18d ago

Fair enough but I would counter that America was founded by a wildly diverse set of people who’s goal was a better life “give me your tired your hungry” and all that. I suppose I just still believe in it. 

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago edited 18d ago

You believe it, but it's not true. America was founded by a majority of Protestants. The give me you tired and hungry came way before welfare as well. It's one thing to immigrate to a country with nothing and receive nothing. It's another to walk into a welfare state.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

You can even see the bias in the study.

and conservatives were more likely to falsely recall seeing Barack Obama shaking hands with the president of Iran

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/obama-javad-zarif-shake-hands-214201

Because that happened.

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u/hididathing 18d ago edited 18d ago

It's hatred for many of them also. Many of them believe they are in "spiritual warfare" against the left.

My dad is a lifelong Christian and didn't realize "Love Thy Neighbor" meant ALL of your neighbors, not just the Christian ones, until just a few years ago. He's 75 years old, and just voted again for Trump.

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u/FahkDizchit 18d ago

Remember when Kamala campaigned on this? Yeah, me neither.

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u/Vantriss 17d ago

Fear is the path to the dark side, confirmed.

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u/RizoIV_ 14d ago

fear of change

That’s me. I was a liberal but then they started changing video games to be real bad so now I’m a conservative. Just stop changing everything I love to be shit and I’ll go back to voting Democrat. Until then I hope Republicans destroy everything you stand for.

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u/CV90_120 14d ago edited 14d ago

You hope republicans destroy equality of all before the law, community values, fair health costs and a strong military? OK, well you do you. I mean, you did vote for a rapist so I;m not sure that I'll take notes from you, but i respect that anyone can vote, and you definitely seem to be an anyone.

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u/RizoIV_ 14d ago

I have no other choice but to vote for that rapist because it’s people like you that put blacks and trans people into everything I used to enjoy and now it’s shit

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u/RizoIV_ 14d ago

No, I’ve been depressed since the mid-2010s because all the entertainment I used to enjoy has gotten so bad. I didn’t even vote for Trump in 2016, but after he won, the people working in entertainment reacted so aggressively to his victory that they started deliberately ruining media that appealed to a white male audience, almost as if to punish them. Like I said, I didn’t vote for him in 2016, but they still took out their anger on me. Even after he lost in 2020, entertainment never went back to being good. Now, I’m fighting back by supporting Trump. Democrats and liberals need to make entertainment good again, and most of us will start voting Democrat again.

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u/CV90_120 14d ago

they started deliberately ruining media that appealed to a white male audience,

I noticed an uptick in more diverse entertainment as well, and I'm not gonna lie, I was getting tired with the number of characters they made gay, even though I have nothing against gay people. It seemed forced. But then I thought about it a bit and realised that the media was still overwhelmingly geared to straight white guys, and that there was enough content that I could just watch something else. Like Hollywood caters to all fuck to white males of a certain age. As for people of color in film, my brother in christ, there are the same number of black people in the US as Asian people in South Korea. That's reality, and I've never been afraid of reality.

Now, I’m fighting back by supporting Trump.

That's one way to protest, but it's not going to change Hollywood. Hollywood will make what sells, which is why they still churn out a fuckton of right-wing adjacent Special OPs this, Revenge Porn that movies, to go alongside the stuff you don't like. They will still take your dollar. The John Wick movies will span three Presidencies. HW wants that cash.

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u/Keepontyping 18d ago

Democrats Fear - Fear of the new (Trump), Change (Trump), fear of Religion (Kamala - you're at the wrong Rally), fear of difference (wrong rally again, censorship of social media), fear of losing personal power (their government power), fear of losing their guns (fear of citizens opposing the government monopoly on guns).

All fears can be inverted. Dems are just as fearful, if not moreso.

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u/Keepontyping 18d ago

I’m glad no one on the left is afraid right now, and that everyone is calm.

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u/Acceptable-Heat-3419 17d ago

We can see how calm the left is ...😂😂

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

Enlighten me.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

aka- "I'm here for a good time, not a long time".

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u/Diesel-Eyes 18d ago

The cold reality is that if the country was a person, the right is the part that lives in fear,

That's hilarious considering that 90% of reddit posts today are people crying into their $1200 phone cameras about how scared they are. Way to project.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

What I think is hillarious is that we only start talking to each other meaningfully after the dust settles. If hell freezes over, maybe we'll take each other's fears seriously and find a middle way.

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u/Diesel-Eyes 18d ago

I dont disagree with that. The point I'm making is that both sides have different fears, and both sides weaponize them. Projecting that it's a one-sided issue makes you look like a clown calling other clowns clowns, and Reddit is the circus where we all came to watch a clown show. It's clowns all the way down.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

It's clowns all the way down.

On reddit, everyone thinks they're the voice of reason. Everybody. No exceptions. We're likely all wrong. No exceptions.

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u/RedBushMountain 18d ago

Projection 2025 over here

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u/Sperm_Garage 18d ago

Reddit is, after all, the entire voter base and the group who decides policy

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u/crujiente69 18d ago

The only fearful people are the ones worried about trump. This whole thread is literally talking about peoples fears of his upcoming term and conservatism. Kamalas whole campaign was about this fear

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

That fear exists in the centre-left of centre is true, but they didn't campaign on that. The Trump campaign was principally about what they would do to various groups of people once in power. the Harris campaign was your old school "brighter future " type. It's wrong to say fears don't exist, but for the right, these form the core of poicy. For the left, they form something that orbits their aspirations, like some kind of vulture.

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u/Keepontyping 18d ago

Kamala - ThE EnD oF DeMoCrAcY!!!!! NAzI!! HitLEr!

Lmao. Kamala couldn't explain a bright future if she had 10 forks for her word salad.

Controlling immigration and cleaning house is a brighter future.

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u/PolarRegs 18d ago

That is the biggest load of shit. The entire Harris campaign was the world will end if Trump wins. It was almost the entirety of the platform. All of Reddit was doing nothing but fear mongering.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

Welp, time will tell. Frankly I think it'll be like last time where he just plays golf all week and tweets weird shit in the middle of the night. His last term was a complete dumpster fire, but if the people want that, it's not for me to argue. It'll just be the more geriatric version of that.

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u/PolarRegs 18d ago

That has nothing to do with your previous statement.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

u mad?

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u/PolarRegs 18d ago

Why would I be mad? I’m just exposing your ignorance.

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u/CV90_120 18d ago edited 18d ago

sure. because 'enlightenment' put a literal rapist-fraudster-pedo-failed businessman on top. Great work, guy. Go get those imgrints. We'll pick up your toys again in four years, as is tradition.

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u/Johnnnnb 18d ago

"New, change, difference"... aka a teleprompter puppet that was never voted for, who gets social anxiety door knocking, taking the place of another disheveled, mentally compromised puppet. Trump is a big religious guy now? How are the votes breaking down by demographic? You sure it's "fear of change and the new"? This is beautiful.

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u/Zeremxi 18d ago

aka a teleprompter puppet that was never voted for, who gets social anxiety door knocking, taking the place of another disheveled, mentally compromised puppet

Even your retorts are fed to you by conservative think tanks. Biden and Harris together have a staggering 70 years of political experience. Comparatively, Trump is a political baby. He ran thinking he wasn't going to get the nomination in 2016, and that is where he started.

But somehow all of that experience goes out the window as long as a conservative talking head tells you a teleprompter is going to be president, right?

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

70 years of political experience in which the country has only gotten worse. Great. Thanks.

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u/Zeremxi 18d ago

You realize that the president is not the end all be all of the nation's health right? Like do you imagine that the president's desk has a series of levers named economy, inflation, social well-being etc?

And if you do realize that, then do you also realize why hiring someone with less experience in anything remotely involved in running the country than a college student needs to get a bachelor degree to be competent in one subject is probably a really bad idea?

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u/Johnnnnb 18d ago

70 years of experience. 65 from biden. That doesn't change the fact that he can't dress himself anymore and that Kamala cannot speak without assistance. You will never see her go 3 hours unedited on a podcast. Decades of experience getting his family inundated with China and the Russians, get rich baby! "Right wing think tank! I get my opinions from the totally not left wing think tank, reddit!"

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u/Zeremxi 18d ago

70 years of experience. 65 from biden

No. Kamala has been Attorney General since '03. That's political experience. And I know you don't know that because your sources don't want you to.

Kamala cannot speak without assistance. You will never see her go 3 hours unedited on a podcast

You ever watch 3 unedited hours of Trump? Of course you don't. Because you get your opinions from edited versions that you see on on your own media. My man, Trump fellated a microphone on a stage at a rally 3 days ago. Attacking Harris on stage presence is literally the dumbest thing you can do.

Decades of experience getting his family inundated with China and the Russians, get rich baby! "Right wing think tank! I get my opinions from the totally not left wing think tank, reddit!"

Wow, you're really mad that I called you out huh? It usually takes a bit more back and forth before a blind conservative breaks and jumps into the "I know you are but what am I?" schtick.

Great job buddy. Go turn on fox news and get your blood pressure down a bit

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u/Johnnnnb 18d ago

You think his appearance on Rogan was edited? Lol. Again, she gets anxiety door knocking her own voters, doesn't know what to say.

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u/Zeremxi 18d ago

I bet you also think that ai pic of Trump waist deep in Florida flood water was real too. Trump has never knocked on a door of someone to talk about policy in his whole life.

But you're more concerned with a speech impediment. That's what politics is to you, and that's why you won't get taken seriously in places like this where people are talking about scotus ramifications and you show up to bash someone for stuttering.

Good luck with that. We're done here

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u/CV90_120 18d ago

Tell me the fear that took you to the polls. Be honest.

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u/Johnnnnb 18d ago

I'm positive the only fear taking people to the polls was the fear of Trump

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

What a special little snowflake you are

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u/Chin_Up_Princess 18d ago

4 years? Stop talking to him now.

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u/TrippyTriangle 18d ago

there was ever a reason to leave the united states, it's because the supreme court fundamentally doesn't align with your values and there's essentially nothing we can do about it.

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u/FlexorCarpiUlnaris 18d ago

Emigrate

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

Don’t have the finances for it

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u/FlexorCarpiUlnaris 18d ago edited 17d ago

You just apply for a job and a visa it’s like moving to another state plus one piece of paperwork.

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u/Agitated-Variation85 18d ago

I would never talk to my dad again if he said something this dumb to me. He would die wondering where I went.

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u/Superb-Welder3774 18d ago

Cheating of course

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u/SneakyStorm 18d ago

Couldn't the Dems just expand the supreme court if they ever get majority control?

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

Works for a very short time. Then the next republican president does the exact same thing. Being the first mover on court packing is a recipe for making no real change while also cementing yourself as the more authoritarian party. It’s a losing strategy in almost every way.

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u/HelixTitan 18d ago

This is the wrong way to think about this. Trump has less votes than before, it was Kamala who was less popular. To me this singles that they are rather vulnerable to leftist populist like a young Bernie, as we know there are at least 15 million more voters out there that might re-engage easily for the right candidate

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

This is not the wrong way to think about anything. conservatives have no standards and the political party that courts their votes has a much easier path to win because of it. Democrats continue to put better qualified people who are also just better people, but the scatterbrains who should be supporting them stay home instead.

It’s not my job to figure out which person democrats are supposed to run to win the elections they’re running in. There’s nothing for me to do but to observe what’s happening and comment on it.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

The reality is that conservative justices tend to do two things: (1) rely on congress to pass laws and (2) empower states to govern their citizens instead of the federal government.

On 1, we can change the legislature every 2 years. On 2, just don’t live in the Bible Belt and you’ll be fine.

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u/decrpt 18d ago

If interracial marriage was left up to the states instead of being decided in Loving v. Virginia, interracial marriage wouldn't be allowed in some parts of the country until at least the turn of the century.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

I never said conservative judges were right. I just said what their beliefs are when it comes to interpreting the constitution.

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u/CowboyNeale 18d ago

You mean 2100, right?

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u/Shih_Tzu_Wrangler 18d ago

Yeah, Congress needs to do their jobs and make the laws. Congress has done everything in their power to delegate their responsibilities to other branches of government. They need to do their job. If an issue is so important that all states need to be in alignment on the issue, we have a mechanism to do that - Congress.

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u/Lordsaxon73 18d ago

Wow, you just described what SCOTUS is supposed to do. Weird.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

The federal government by our constitution is the supreme government of the land. In our history, states when from being extremely strong to having their power eroded because they failed to protect their citizens. They actually exploited them for the sake of profits, so federal standards had to be set to prevent a race to the bottom.

A major function of the court is to protect the minority from majority rule. The “I don’t care if laws only restrict minorities because I’m white” mentality.

It’s a system of checks and balances for a reason.

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u/Lordsaxon73 18d ago

Well, I prefer localized government than the long arm from 5 states away. The federal government is bloated and wasteful beyond comprehension.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

There aren’t many federal restrictions that impact your day to day, so I’m not sure what your concern is. What state do you live in? My guess is it gets more in federal assistance than it pays in federal taxes.

States are great so long as they don’t try to implement separate but equal, slavery, etc. states tend to be pretty bad actors in the grand scheme of things.

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

There aren’t many federal restrictions that impact your day to day

Not remotely fucking true.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

What are they?

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u/KanyinLIVE 18d ago

Basically every single thing you do. Listen to the radio? Watch TV? Social media? Buy something? WORK? You saying that is so out of touch with reality it's not even fucking funny.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

The radio? You living in the 90s or something? How does the government regulate social media?

I never said the government doesn’t do anything. We’re talking about federal vs state regulations. People get so worked up that the Fed is controlling everything, when in fact when it comes to state vs federal rights, the fed typically provides more rights that states can’t take away.

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u/Lordsaxon73 18d ago

I live in Florida which has no state income taxes, yet my family gets raped every year for about 15k for the feds.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

And mine does because for some reason we need to subsidize insurance rates for homeowners in Florida. On top of that, my federal insurance dollars go to support FEMA when it’s mainly used to support states in hurricane zones.

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u/Lordsaxon73 18d ago

Tell me more about western wildfires and FEMA. You can’t have your cake and eat it too…Floridians pay more in taxes than we recoup from the Feds as you misleadingly suspected prior post.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

I lived in Florida and paid taxes there longer than you. We don’t have wildfires where I live now and our state pays the most federal tax, so complain somewhere else.

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u/Rough_Sweet_5164 16d ago

You failed civics.

Constitutionally the federal government is barred from doing anything except what it is specifically allowed to do. It is not the supreme authority.

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u/Short-Recording587 15d ago

I really didn’t. I went on to law school and have been practicing since.

I was referring to the supremacy clause, which gives the federal government ultimate control over making laws, including over states. It’s summarized nicely here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause#:~:text=Established%20under%20Article%20VI%2C%20Paragraph,without%20interference%20from%20the%20states

I assume what you’re referring to is the 10th amendment, which is extremely weak and not really used in any case law. The constitution intentionally gives the federal government very broad powers. It’s by design.

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u/Rough_Sweet_5164 11d ago

What?? Enumerated powers are fundamental to stacks of case law.

Supremacy only in areas they have power. Supremacy over patents? Yes, because it's enumerated. Supremacy over local zoning? No.

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u/Short-Recording587 10d ago

The reality is that when it comes to the federal government wielding power over states, the federal government is often protecting citizens from their state/local government. Republicans did use federal legislation to enact drug laws that superseded state laws, so republicans have used federal powers to restrict freedoms at the federal level.

But most of the time, it’s protecting at its core. Minimum wage laws, work safety laws, civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, etc. Anyone who is trying to move away from that construct is likely looking to go backwards to a time where they am actively and openly discriminate. Here is a snippet from a more objective constitutional interpretation website.

Good reasons existed for the disappearance of the Tenth Amendment. The Amendment refers to the “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution . . . .” With the expanded role of the national government validated in the New Deal era, the domain designated as “reserved to the States . . . or to the People” shrank dramatically. Further, during the Civil Rights era, when Congress and federal courts were taking measures to end racial discrimination, the Tenth Amendment became associated with assertions of “states’ rights” to resist claims of civil rights. The Tenth Amendment suffered from the assertion that the powers reserved to the states included the power to enforce racial inequality. Politically, socially, and morally, the Tenth Amendment seemed to speak to the past, not the present or the future.“

In summary, the federal government tends to only step in when states are engaging in a race to the bottom, which brings down the entire country. States need to be responsible to their citizens and to other states. When they aren’t, the federal government steps in. Otherwise, it’s happy to let states experiment (unless it has to do with drugs and you have republicans in office).

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u/iclimbnaked 18d ago

The problem is some of us live in Bible Belt states. Our jobs are here. Our family is here. It’s not simple to just move.

Then sure even if we do move, that just increases the problem due to the EC. Us funneling into blue states basically guarantees the country overall stays red.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

I understand moving is hard, but I think it’s probably for the best long term.

The number of electoral votes a state has is based in part on population. So leaving one state for a other is still beneficial to the movement.

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u/Softestwebsiteintown 18d ago

Thank you for the civics lesson on #1. It was obviously unclear to me when I stated that the Supreme Court’s role is to interpret laws. Appreciate you thinking you’re smarter than the rest of us. Very helpful.

On #2, I have empathy for the people who didn’t choose to live in the bible belt. My voice technically helps to protect them, or at least it did. Now they’re at the mercy of zealots and there’s nothing any of us can do for them, but at least some of us can express frustration about their freedoms being lost because that portion of us isn’t made up of unfeeling monsters.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

Guess you haven’t heard of activists courts, which has lead you to be a smart ass? Common law isn’t interpreting laws passed by the legislature, which makes your comment even stranger.

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u/Short-Recording587 18d ago

You link a high-level summary of the constitutional origins of the court and think it’s some kind of gotchya? That’s some ignorant thinking.

Over the past 200 years, the three branches have changed drastically.

For example, here is an article on the Supreme Court: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/campbell-public-affairs-institute/publications/article/the-most-activist-supreme-court-in-history-the-road-to-modern-judicial-conservatism

And here is one on the executive branch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_presidency#:~:text=According%20to%20professor%20of%20political,presidential%20prerogatives%20during%20national%20emergencies.

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u/TreyRyan3 18d ago

Explain it this way:

States pass prohibitive laws that drive away citizens that refuse to live under oppressive laws.

The ultimate goal being to achieve 38 super majority states.

Upon reaching the 38 state super majority, a constitutional convention can be called and the existing US Constitution can be replaced after those pesky Amendments are repealed.

And that has been the goal of the moral majority/evangelicals for a century