disability rights were fought for by disabled people, not fucking democrats. Gay people rioted to get their rights.

and do you actually think contraceptives are secured?

It would have been on a state-by-state basis, which is what we're coming dangerously close to anyway.

We don't go around campaigning specifically to discourage people from voting. Our project is to get people to see beyond the seesaw spectacle.

When someone offers you two poor options, the right thing to do is to create a better option, even if you take the less bad option in the short run. Voting a Democrat into office and then congratulating ourselves on doing it is how progress slips and how we lose sight of what's needed.

Gay marriage isn't protected. Scotus can shoot it down on a whim

Lol Biden lost Roe

Court decision

Sucks

What rights? SSI tops out at 700$ a month, I can never have more than 2k in assets, and if I get married I lose it all. Just happened to a friend of mine, they're going to have to annul their marriage so they don't starve to death. "disability rights".

Let me be more blunt. We do not live in a democracy. Voting is fundamentallly unable to change that.

idk man there's a literal genocide going on right now I think we're past the point of quibbling over minor differences in the deree of evil.

Study: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens:

From the abstract:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

further down:

In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

What is it, like, 70% of Americans want single payer healthcare?