This is what theocracy looks like

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41. Welcome to DU, marked50!

Great to have you with us! The problem here, as you've just stated, is that if THIS is allowed to stand, this opens the floodgates. What's to stop another state, or another four states, from trying to pull this shit? Look what happened immediately after the Supreme Court gutted voting rights? You had a cascade of states that stepped on the gas on bills that were very likely already warming up in the bullpen in anticipation of a favorable ruling. That's thanks to outfits like ALEC, preemptory strategists who help GOP legislators plop finished bills into active mode in their state capitols to accomplish things like voter restrictions, stand-your-ground, climate change denial, restricting the minimum wage, blocking or otherwise thwarting affordable health care coverage, religious interference in public policy, vaginal probes, "sanctity of marriage" stuff, charter and private schools instead of ensuring a robust public education system, and other anti-social, ill-conceived, and wrongheaded shit that the far so-called "right" wants.

Wrong-way social engineering is what it looks like. Anti-social engineering. They're trying to FORCE the CONservative view on us all. They're trying to push the pendulum farther and farther to the "right" and then hold it in place there. And artificially prevent the natural order of things - where, in nature, in reality, the pendulum inevitably swings back the other way. That side always tends to riff on the same theme - asserting repeatedly that this is a "center-right" country. They're wrong! It ISN'T! And it's growing steadily less so with the changing demographics. ESPECIALLY with the marriage equality issue, and the very noticeable and widespread forward momentum of gay rights in America. Things have REALLY evolved there, thank goodness. And yet the other side remains hellbent on resistance, and applying some big cosmic "brakes" against the ongoing evolution of human society through time, a continuum if you will. They resist change. They can't fight it either, and I suppose that makes them hate it and want to stop it all the more.