Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape

[martybegan]

Do you want a theocracy?

If progressivism was a religion you sure as hell would.

 

[surada]

That’s your reply? You’re fucking retarded.

Uneducated, vulgar bullies don't impress me. However they do have their followers. You. Impressed with Trump's money?

 

[surada]

If progressivism was a religion you sure as hell would.

Nope... I lived in a theocracy.

 

[WelfareQueen]

States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict abortion, limit access to voting, ban books, retrench transgender rights and constrain teachers’ ability to discuss race, gender and sexual orientation at public K-12 schools and increasingly at public colleges and universities.

Many of the same states are simultaneously rescinding restrictions on gun ownership, stiffening penalties for people engaged in unruly public protests and, in a new twist, empowering private citizens to bring lawsuits to enforce many of these initiatives, as Texas Republicans did on their recent law banning abortion after about six weeks.
[…]
…with GOP senators wielding the filibuster and the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court both providing powerful air cover for this red state ground offensive, Democrats and groups focused on defending civil rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, among other issues, have not yet found any effective means of slowing the conservative onslaught. Even as the nation grows more racially, religiously and culturally diverse than ever, that means roughly half the states are on track to impose rules across this broad array of cultural flashpoints that primarily reflect the demands of one shrinking group: conservative and often older White Christians.

Analysis: Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape

From Florida, Georgia and Tennessee through Texas, South Dakota and Montana, Republican-controlled states are approving a torrent of culturally conservative hot-button legislation at a pace unmatched in recent times, and probably ever.

www.cnn.com

Call it the balkanization of our rights and protected liberties – where the rights and liberties of Americans will no longer be protected in states controlled by Republicans.

The Dim obsession with little kids' sexuality in creepy as fuck. But hey, keep running on that shit. It's sure to be a winner on election day.

 

[Oddball]

The difference however, is this. Progressives do it through cultural change…Cons do it through legislative fiat.

Deliberative legislative action is the exact opposite of acting by fiat.

How does anyone have a reasoned conversation with someone who doesn't even know what the words that they're using mean?

 

[Oddball]

Nope... I lived in a theocracy.

Then you should recognize that progressivism is a secularized religious cult.

 

[surada]

Then you should recognize that progressivism is a secularized religious cult.

Not all Christians believe the prophet Hal Lindsey.

 

[martybegan]

Nope... I lived in a theocracy.

Bullshit.

 

[surada]

Bullshit.

Saudi Arabia is a theocracy.

 

[martybegan]

Saudi Arabia is a theocracy.

Yes, and the zealots there are the same as progressives here.

At least there we see trends of moderation.

And it's actually a Monarchy, Iran is more of a Theocracy.

The House of Saud are kings, not clerics.

 

[Wyatt earp]

States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict abortion, limit access to voting, ban books, retrench transgender rights and constrain teachers’ ability to discuss race, gender and sexual orientation at public K-12 schools and increasingly at public colleges and universities.

Many of the same states are simultaneously rescinding restrictions on gun ownership, stiffening penalties for people engaged in unruly public protests and, in a new twist, empowering private citizens to bring lawsuits to enforce many of these initiatives, as Texas Republicans did on their recent law banning abortion after about six weeks.
[…]
…with GOP senators wielding the filibuster and the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court both providing powerful air cover for this red state ground offensive, Democrats and groups focused on defending civil rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, among other issues, have not yet found any effective means of slowing the conservative onslaught. Even as the nation grows more racially, religiously and culturally diverse than ever, that means roughly half the states are on track to impose rules across this broad array of cultural flashpoints that primarily reflect the demands of one shrinking group: conservative and often older White Christians.

Analysis: Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape

From Florida, Georgia and Tennessee through Texas, South Dakota and Montana, Republican-controlled states are approving a torrent of culturally conservative hot-button legislation at a pace unmatched in recent times, and probably ever.

www.cnn.com

Call it the balkanization of our rights and protected liberties – where the rights and liberties of Americans will no longer be protected in states controlled by Republicans.

Don't go to those states your not welcome

 

[Wyatt earp]

The difference however, is this. Progressives do it through cultural change…Cons do it through legislative fiat.

oh really didn't know gay marriage is still illegal

 

[Wyatt earp]

Democrats almost completely gave up on Racism in 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

They have many other faults, but this is not one of them.

Northern states are waaaayyyyy more racist and segregated then southern states in the year 2022

 

[g5000]

States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict abortion, limit access to voting, ban books, retrench transgender rights and constrain teachers’ ability to discuss race, gender and sexual orientation at public K-12 schools and increasingly at public colleges and universities.

TEACHER: Today we are going to learn about Plessy v. Ferguson.

SNOWFLAKE, Jr: Stop blaming me!

 

[BackAgain]

Democrats almost completely gave up on Racism in 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

They have many other faults, but this is not one of them.

Horseshit. And bullshit. But it’s shit either way.

 

[martybegan]

TEACHER: Today we are going to learn about Plessy v. Ferguson.

SNOWFLAKE, Jr: Stop blaming me!

Plessy is taught in schools, the problem is teaching them plessy is till impacting things today and it's all the student's fault unless they can come up with another protected class to be a part of.

 

[22lcidw]

The difference however, is this. Progressives do it through cultural change…Cons do it through legislative fiat.

Cultural change pushed by the same Progressives. Who then gets Democracy with the voters which has led us to tyranny.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Uneducated, vulgar bullies don't impress me. However they do have their followers. You. Impressed with Trump's money?

Do you have any clue as to WTF we’re talking about in this thread?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“You have an emerging generation that is multiracial, multicultural, where no single ethnic or racial group is the majority, and it has struck an existential fear within [conservatives] who are used to controlling everything, from the boardroom to the White House. So what we are seeing here is people playing on that fear of that graying generation that votes with regularity and feels as though something is slipping away.” ibid

Of course, nothing is ‘slipping away’ – conservatives’ fear of positive, beneficial change, of a multiracial, multicultural America is as unwarranted as it is destructive.

 

[OKTexas]

Ya…you guys are only for civil liberties and free speech when it is your own.

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