Thread by @DunhillPage

"How do we fix this?"
First, let's get out of the way Things We Almost Certainly Cannot Do:
1. Expand the Court. Lovely idea. Really. But repubs won't support that and there aren't enough Dem votes.
2. Term limits for SCOTUS.
Nope. It's in the Constitution - they serve for 1/

life unless impeached.
3. Okay, impeach them, then! Again, nope. That requires the support of 2/3s of the Senate. See number 1 re: we don't have the votes.
4. "Biden should issue an EO!" Saying what? He's not an emporer and he shouldn't be. He has no power to simply overrule 2/

SCOTUS. And any EO the right doesn't like will be overturned by the *same SCOTUS*.
5. Open clinics on tribal lands.
It's not your land. Stop it. Haven't you learned anything?
6. Provide abortions on military bases.
The Hyde Amendment makes that a non-starter. No.
7. Protest. 3/

Yeah, okay, we *can* do that. If protesting makes you feel better, go ahead. But it won't affect the decision. And, if there's any violence (and there will be bc thugs like the Proud Boys will provoke it, they'll wield it as a cudgel to double down.

Okay then, here's 4/

what we CAN do (and yes, I'm going to remind y'all that the first thing everyone *should* have done was vote for Sec. Clinton and we wouldn't be here now).
This was a goal of the right for 50 years. And they achieved it by VOTING. I'm every single election, while Dems sat home 5/

because it was "just a local election". That they turned out every time for 50 years meant that they packed school boards, town councils, etc. So? You ask - school boards don't make state laws. Correct. But the people on those boards made connections. With donors, with 6/

state political machines. They build name recognition. And they used all that as a springboard to the next higher office. To state legislatures. To Governor's mansions. To Congress. While white Dem voters say around until a sexier presidential election rolled around. I specify 7/

"white" because that's the ugly truth. Black voters *also* show up every time because they can't afford not to. Because they have to try to mitigate harm. They've begged white voters to do the same, but instead, those white voters insisted their votes have to be "earned". 8/

(And I'll leave alone for now the fact that those same white voters are now demanding that Black voters somehow save them when they can't be assed to do the same until - policies hurt *them*)
Okay, this is all the past. You should have voted Hillary, but you didn't. 9/

Moving on to What Do We Do Now.
Now it's up to the states. And if you think you're safe because you live in a blue state, think again. Forced-both states *will* try to prosecute people in other states who assist in obtaining abortions.
More importantly, your "safety" could 10/

change in a single election. The right is deadly serious and they are not going to quit - removing the constitutional protection for abortion is just the *start*. Because now they will be using their historical advantage in voter turnout at the local & state level to 11/

ban abortion *everywhere*.
So what we have to do now is VOTE. Every. Single. Time. In. Every. Single. Election. For the rest of our lives. And we have to vote for DEMS. The parties are coalitions. That's it. It's just semantics. There is a fascist, white supremacist 12/

coalition, and an opposing coalition made up of diverse, often competing interests that nevertheless support democracy and oppose fascism. You get to choose one. If you're not supporting the Democratic one, you're helping the fascist one. And yes, it really is that simple. 13/

However centrist or far-left you may be, the point in our system is to work *collectively* towards your common goals. On the right, evangelicals ally with fiscal conservatives, white supremacists, and all the rest because they're focused on what they have in common. 14/

That's how coalitions work. If you're not getting everything you want from your coalition, the answer is to organize, negotiate, fight for it *within the coalition* - not to throw your support to a powerless boutique party catering to your pet issues. 15/

The federal government has been removed from the picture entirely and there's nothing it can do until Dems have enough power to make some of the changes we want.
The fight has moved to the states. And believe me when I say it is just starting - by removing the fed and 16/

throwing it to the states, the right has divided to conquer.
Where repubs hold enough power, they will suppress votes, germander, and more to get what *they* want, not what the people want.
But statewide elections can't be germandered. Governor, Lt Governor, Sec. of State, 17/

State Attorney General, and SENATORS are just some of the offices that are subject to state vote and can't be germandered. So turn out and vote. Get registered. Get other people registered. Talk to young voters. Check your registration. Often. Make your plan to vote. And SHOW UP.

Minor note: my autocorrect is an asshole and once it renders a word incorrectly, it apparently "learns" it that way forever. I'm going to very carefully type out 'gerrymander" and see if I can slip it by.
(It also refuses to type 'and I' without first insisting it's 'Andi")