Some thoughts on the SCOTUS VRA ruling
The late John Lewis and other civil rights marchers being attacked by police in Selma, Alabama Yesterday, our vaunted Supreme Court of these very United States gutted the Voting Rights Act even more. It seems to be a fondness that the six "conservative" justices have to dismantle this country's greatest achievement in civil rights. The usual suspects—the ones who have all the smoke for the Democratic Party but none for the party actually committing the malfeasance—are wailing and gnashing their teeth, declaring this is the end of the VRA and of democracy as we know it. These people would not have survived the civil rights marches, or the Second World War, or the Great Depression. I do agree with the man-children on the right: we've become coddled, used to instant gratification, unwilling to put in the work required to maintain democracy. (The irony, of course, is that those rightists are even more coddled and living in privilege.) People echo John Lewis about getting...
