[Peace-discuss] Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist on "Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court"

[J.B. Nicholson]

 From 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/democratic-party-betrayal-abortion-and-supreme-court which 
debunks another often asked question used to push people to reflexively support the 
Democratic Party.

> “What about the Supreme Court?” Those words are used to thwart any discussion
> which questions support for the Democratic Party. The democrats maintain their
> hold on voters who would otherwise be rid of them by dredging up the fear of the
> federal judiciary falling under Republican Party control. The legal right to
> abortion is one of the issues used to keep millions of people from leaving the
> democrats once and for all.
> 
> After decades of democrats’ corruption, inaction, and lies, the right to abortion
> is indeed at risk. The majority of Supreme Court justices are republican
> appointees.  They may uphold a Mississippi law which severely restricts abortion
> access or even overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which declared a
> constitutional right to abortion. The boogeyman of right wing judicial control is
> now real and the democrats have only themselves to blame. Unfortunately, most of
> their voters still go along with their faux outrage when they should be
> questioning the whole rotten apparatus.
> 
> The democratic party is called a “big tent” which includes corporate interests,
> wealthy funders, well funded think tanks, elite academia, and left leaning voters.
> Black people are the constituency they depend upon the most, although one would
> never know that by looking at the policies the democrats hold near and dear.
> 
> Black voters in particular are caught in a trap, seeing themselves as powerless to
> do anything except keep republicans out of office. The openly white supremacist
> nature of the republicans is not met with any opposition by the party that fails
> to fight for them. Instead fear mongering and betrayal of their most loyal voters
> are their favorite means of getting support. The political duopoly are like fake
> heroes and fake villains in professional wrestling. The differences are all for
> show.
> 
> The bloom was off the rose in 2016 after the hope and change promised by Barack
> Obama was revealed to be nothing more than neo-liberal business as usual. Many
> democrats were disgusted when the primaries were rigged against Bernie Sanders.
> Hillary Clinton’s “pied piper strategy” amplified Donald Trump, and the
> combination of miscalculation and hubris gave him the electoral college votes
> needed to win and to make lifetime judicial appointments.
> 
> Hillary Clinton was so sure she would defeat Trump that she chose senator Tim
> Kaine as her running mate. Kaine is one who straddles the fence claiming he is
> personally opposed to abortion because he is a Catholic while claiming he would
> defend Roe v. Wade. Clinton herself foolishly sought to portray herself as being
> ambivalent about abortion, thinking she would get support from some conservative
> voters. Of course real conservatives were in love with Donald Trump. So-called
> moderate republicans voted for him too. Hillary’s efforts to be as slick as Bill
> Clinton were laughable and her sad attempt at Clintonian triangulation led to
> Trump’s victory.
> 
> Democrats don’t like to mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have stepped down
> when Barack Obama asked her. He also didn’t fight for his nominee Merrick Garland
> because he assumed that a president Hillary Clinton would have her choices. The
> miscalculations are guarded like a shameful family secret lest left leaning
> democrats question the cult leadership and head for the exits.
> 
> Of course the constant demand that leftists stick with the democrats over the
> issue of abortion falls apart upon even cursory examination. House Speaker Nancy
> Pelosi was taken to task in 2017 for saying that abortion was “fading” as an issue
> of concern to her party’s members. In 2018 when democratic voters were urged to
> give control of the House to democrats and diminish Donald Trump’s power she said
> abortion was not a litmus test issue. While voters are harangued to stay with the
> democrats as if they are a political lifeboat, the leadership make clear that they
> don’t care what their constituents want and only raise issues at opportune moments
> to raise money and keep the rank and file in line.
> 
> Democrats are only serious about neo-liberal austerity, protection of corporate
> interests, and carrying out imperialism abroad. Everything else is propaganda
> meant to convince the gullible to stay in their camp. Liberals think themselves
> superior and sneer at white republicans for voting against their interests. They
> are no better, allowing themselves to be fooled again and again by SCOTUS fear
> mongering when their party could protect abortion rights with legislation if they
> really wanted to do so.
> 
> The joke is on liberals who want to relitigate the 2016 debacle by blaming
> everyone but the people who should have won the election they said was so
> important. The barbarians are not just at the gate, they have breached the walls
> and the democrats are responsible. But even as they fail in the electoral arena, 
> their propaganda knows no bounds. They never discuss legislating abortion rights
> and their constituents never take them to task.
> 
> MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters are no more indoctrinated than the average
> democrat voter. The discredited leadership exemplified by the likes of Nancy
> Pelosi have a strong hold on their members despite failing them time and again.
> The only sure prediction of the 2024 presidential campaign is that the need to
> control the federal judiciary will again be trotted out to end any questions or
> hesitation to support the party that fails its people so often.
> 
> Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion
> rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party
> has refused to do that. Now that SCOTUS control is lost because of their
> corruption and betrayals, they continue to spin lies that bamboozle the party
> faithful.