The answer is right in your response, “other fringe groups”, white nationalists are not a “fringe group”, they are the majority of the MAGA faction of the Republican party. No, I am not looking for opposition, I am trying to show how the “yeah, fringe on both sides” is normalizing the rise in white nationalism in one…

Don’t even try to both sides this.  Does not matter what white supremacists point to, “false flag 1/6", Jewish space lasers, blood libel, democratic pedophiles and dead JFK, Jr.  None of the fringe groups you mention have put a president in the white house.  Faux evangelicals have since Reagan.

Hard to respect anyone who says, “I was gonna whip his behind.” Stop condoning violence, even if a co-worker brings up a a melee. Not okay for Will Smith to walk onstage and slap Chris Rock, not okay for JoMarie Payton to whip Jaleel White’s behind.

Overlay the opioid epidemic with the states flat outlawing and/or criminalizing abortion. Add to that the pathetic level of basic education and poverty.  We know that large swaths of the country are experiencing an epidemic of despair, hopeless.  Those are often the people who will be forced to birth babies. For all…

Voting rights are for white republicans, abortions are for the well to do, social justice is for the “woke” and justice is for the rich and powerful.  While our country had yet to meet the promise of its founding mission, I never expected to see a complete rollback of rights in my lifetime.

What are the statistics of addiction in the very same red states that have effectively banned abortion? In many rural areas, mine included, covid gutted what few resources we had for health care let alone mental health care and addiction treatment. Layer on inflation, the widening wealth gap, the rising suicide rate,…

The right gets whoever panders the furthest to the right.  The left gets centrists and even then the right isn’t satisfied.  They wanted Biden to pick a Republican running mate, as if Biden isn’t a centrist of a centrist of a centrist.  I expected nothing progressive from him, my support was based on “He’s not tRump.”

I was referring to Brett the Beer Bouff Kavanaugh and his mysterious benefactor. Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas and Kavanaugh all committed perjury but fat chance that any perjury charges would stick. As for Thomas, his numerous ethical violations are the biggest factor in the need for ethics rules and reform. I am not gonna…

Could not disagree more. The underpinning of this is the fundamental right to privacy which is a horrifying and dystopian notion to face. Couple this with the book bans, the “don’t say gay” and the rising tide of bigotry in every flavor. The biggest factor is the one we faced in the 2020 election when too many people…

Have to disagree, it’s more about keeping poor people poor and they don’t really give a damn about the color as long as they’re hungry and desperate enough to take nothing in wages.

Yes, the right wing gripe about black women is that they’re having too few children... /s

Look at every decision that opens the floodgates to payola and closes every tiny crack for voting rights.  “Why do we need to deal with rabble when we can just take the money and keep the power?”

Yeah, bribery is a crime although not if you’re a “conservative”. Since we can’t even get to actual crimes, ethics violations is an even bigger lift. Clearly, Ginni Thomas tried to overthrow our government while her hub was deciding cases where she may very well have been involved.  Imagine a criminal trial, finding…

The eugenics thing has been a talking point, another, “Look! Squirrel!” for the anti-choice douches for awhile. For anyone with a working brain (unlike 22 week old fetuses), we see what this society thinks about fully formed black and brown bodies, if not before George Floyd’s murder, in its aftermath. Hell, they…

Countries beside the US that enforce capital punishment: Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Angola, and Afghanistan

That’s not the case, see capital punishment or slavery.  To cite a British jurist, and one who viewed women as property or witches in the 21st Century in order to disregard 50 years of settled law is uncommon.

Completely disagree that the right to privacy, the foundation of Griswold and Roe is “thin at best”. What right could be more fundamental than the right to control one’s reproduction? Procreation is not a right granted to the Federal or State government, it is left to the people. If the government can be in my bedroom…

Those are all “civil rights” and yes, abortion is exactly the same, just like segregation, interracial or gay marriage. We don’t VOTE on basic, fundamental, human rights. That’s where the anti-choice argument falls apart. Virginia can’t vote to overturn Loving, Kansas can’t vote to overturn Brown, Ohio can’t vote to…

Doesn’t hold, why do you think Johnson pressed civil rights legislation, after all, the 13th and 14th Amendments should have done that, right? Why do you think red states are passing gun rights legislation every damned day, doesn’t the 2nd Amendment say that? Why should Congress bother passing voting rights…

Since Obama could not even get a Senate hearing for his nominee, what makes you think Mitch would have allowed a hearing to fill her seat?