Glad Britain is stepping up.

Serious question. If what makes America a country is its Constitution, and the laws of the Constitution are no longer being followed by the President, and SCOTUS is enabling this, are we still "The United States of America"?

❤️ you, Shana.

We've never matched that, so starting in 1980, they've been able to chip away at the gains made from 1935-1965. They stayed focused. We did not. We took those gains for granted

Meanwhile, after they lost in the Supreme Court, conservatives focused on taking over SCOTUS & returning to Jim Crow (they didn't say it like that, of course.) Their big break: 12 years in power 8 with Reagan, followed by 4 with Bush.

If we had turned over control to the GOP after FDR's 1st term because it wasn't perfect, the GOP would have sunk it immediately and we wouldn't have made the Civil Rights gains that we did. We essentially turned over power after Biden's "New Deal" because things weren't perfect.

In 1950, social security came to include domestic & agricultural workers, and that brought Black people in. The "New Deal" even with the racism that ran through it led to a series of events that led to Brown v Board of Education - the end of legalized segregation.

FDR was personally a racist, but his his policies broke apart the classist power blocks implemented social security, which conservatives have hated from day 1. He added disability in second term. We had 5 terms of control, FDR & Truman, which is important.

Oh, white conservatives/Confederates have held power far more often than not. White conservatives are a lost cause. However, anytime we get even a toe-hold of moving in a different direction we splinter apart and let them win.

I agree. The way I tried to get this concept across to people before last November was to think of it as “harm reduction.” Like when you give an addict methadone to try to ease them off of heroin. It’s not great to be taking methadone, but you’re trying to ramp off of something worse.

So, when I say "status quo" I mean holding the current position, which would have kept the government in the hands of the Dems, because from there we had a shot of moving in the right direction, which was to stop sending Israel weapons and ending that genocide.

Historically speaking, it took the join pressure of US public outcry and the pressure of NATO allies joining the world in the economic boycotting of South Africa for the US to override Reagan's veto and join the boycott.