I think Dave is touching on something very important here when he writes about how little we know about history. I've heard it said that there is nothing that Americans hate more than being told that they are racist. I understand and agree when a white man or woman says they were not alive prior to the civil war and nor were alive during the Civil Rights protests so they are not to blame for the past, and hence to simply say they are racists is not fair. What I do think is fair to blame most white Americans for not knowing the actual history of the United States. Some of us, but not all, are in fact very privileged. I know that due to where I was born and the color of my skin I had advantages other people did not have. I am grateful for those advantages, humbled by them and wish rather than they being advantages they were the norm. #

I find it laughable that any Republican says that SCOTUS will not overturn other past decisions like gay marriage. Bear in mind that every current justice on the court when asked during their confirmation hearings questions relating to overturning Roe v. Wade and past decisions either avoided the topic, or said what everyone wanted to hear, which is that they are decided law. These folks were at best insincere or at worse flat out lied. The point is, we know the agenda that Republicans have been acting on for fifty years there is no reason to believe anything otherwise, which is why most of the fault of Roe being overturned is at the feet of Democrats and RBG because they had it in their power to prevent this situation from happening and chose to not doing anything. #

So called pro-choice Republicans who chose to accept what they wanted to hear from SCOTUS nominees are not now in the position of claiming the nominees are being inconsistent with what they said. You knew what they told you in your office is not binding and you know who selected them and why, it should not matter what they said to you because you made the decision to vote for them knowing the full context of why they were nominated. #