Kansas demonstrated how the country's democracy is supposed to work

[In It to Win It]

and it also demonstrates how broken our national political system is.

The state Supreme Court made a decision that a certain anti-abortion faction of the state didn't like. They used the political system to try to correct that, by attempting to pass an amendment to change their constitution. Even if they the anti-abortion side had won the vote, that is democracy and our political working as it should, and as I would like to see it with people realizing that a Supreme Court does not have to have the final say.

In a reasonable democracy and republic, that should also work at the national level. The U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision that is unpopular by the overwhelming majority of the country, the response to that should not be that the Supreme Court has the final say. However, one party is hellbent on making sure our national government doesn't function as well as it should.

Amendments to our national constitution should be difficult to pass, but they shouldn't be impossible to pass. One party has made sure that amendments are impossible to pass, has made sure the U.S. Supreme Court will always have the absolute final say, and has made sure that it's Republican hacks who will always have the absolute final say.

[Blue Owl]

1. I hope Alito is celebrating his SCOTUS ruling with a cigar

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Not exactly

The Constitution is supposed to protect individual's rights from the masses. If the majority vote to take away my rights, the Constitution is there to over rule the majority. In this case, the court ruled that Americans do not have a right to privacy, period, that impact in this case was that women wouldn't have the right to make their own decisions about their body, they ruled the state should have absolute authority over women's bodies in some instances.

If 80% of the population votes to kill all people with green eyes, the Constitution is there to protect green eyed people. There are rights we all have regardless of what the majority might think at the time. This was a failure of our court system to hold up our inalienable rights.

In short, it should have never came to this.

[In It to Win It]

3. Re: This was a failure of our court system to hold up our inalienable rights.

It was a failure, and going further, my point is that since the Court failed, the gears of our system should come into play to protect that inalienable right that the Court threw away. The buck doesn't have to stop at the Court, but politics as it currently exists makes that not just unlikely, but impossible.