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In reply to the discussion: We've lost the Supreme Court. What now? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)But nothing lasts forever. We have to play a long game, a very long game. Some of us probably won't even live long enough to see the outcome. Work from the bottom up. Someday, maybe as soon as 2020, there will no longer be a GOP president. And even Supreme Court justices don't live forever (although I desperately hope RBG can hang in there for a few more years). If we work hard at grass-roots politics we will no longer have a GOP House and Senate, and maybe even more importantly the GOP may be kicked out of at least some - maybe many - state legislatures and governorships.
State level elections will become crucial if the current Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, because right now, in many states, there are a lot of retrograde legislators who are frothing at the mouth for the chance to outlaw all forms of abortion. Without the restrictions of Roe they will be able to do it. And if Roe is overturned as a result of a majority decision that there is no Constitutional right to privacy, Griswold v. Connecticut (birth control), Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage) and Lawrence v. Kansas (consensual gay sex) could go right out the window, too.
GOTV. It's all we've got left.