Just what the Acceleratuonists gleefully want. Quite the  pernicious merging of fundamentalism and today's brand of power brokers

Found This:

America is an old brick house, hacked together with spackle and grout, and has been crumbling for some time. Finally, the cracks have become too large for us to ignore.

The alarmists have been warning of exactly this outcome for decades – though the GOP’s astroturfed campaign to seize the American state traces back to the Goldwater loss, the enshrinement of Civil Rights, and the judicial activism of the Warren Court. The lessons which they took away were clear: in order to return to white minority rule, they needed the Court. In order to get the Court, they needed the Presidency. And in order to retain the Presidency, they needed to rig the Electoral College. They succeeded. In both 2000 and 2016, the candidate who won the popular vote went on to lose the election. Both candidates appointed Conservative activist judges to the Supreme Court.

This was possible due to one of America’s many anachronisms. These anachronisms are not accidents. They are very intentional preservations of an oppressive institution. This country was not founded by enlightened philosopher-kings. Nor was it, as we like to pretend, founded by progressive thought-leaders whose outsized agency made it possible to throw off the reins of tyranny, so conveniently represented by a mad king and an ocean of distance. America was founded by slave traders and lawyers. It was founded by high-thinking hypocrites. Even if they were truly the greatest minds of their day, their day has come and gone and they have left us in quite the mess.

The tree of liberty is looking quite thirsty as of now, and it is time for Americans to consider what it means to be American. What America as a project stands for. In the nearly 50 years since Roe v. Wade was handed down, the Democratic Party had countless opportunities to enshrine protection for Abortion or indeed broader medical freedom into law. They failed. The Republican party, though their faults are so plain and rotten we need not comment on them for now, knows what it takes to wield state power effectively, and they are willing to do so. The Democrats are not, and the result of that is the reality we find ourselves in today.

The GOP has successfully struck down their single biggest cultural bugbear of the last 50 years. What do they do now?

Well, the answer is clear: they go on to the next one. Clarence Thomas specifically says that the Court should review decisions that made legal the open existence of gay people throughout the land (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) and, just over a decade later, that which made marriage equality likewise recognized around the country (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015). Then they have cast their eyes back much further, even targeting Interracial Marriage (Loving v. Virginia) and lowering the status of Miranda Rights to some lesser, quasi-constitutional status – opening the door for their complete overturn down the road. As the reactionaries in the United States ramp up their eliminationist rhetoric targeted at queer and trans people, the Democrats sit on their hands and offer thoughts and prayers. As Christian Theocrats seize control of the state apparatus, Democrats loiter about and sing God Bless America. Democrats have become so enamored with their values-neutral governance strategy that they have seemingly resigned themselves to going down with the ship.

Where the GOP understands that in order to hold power in a nominal democracy, you have to win elections – and to win elections, you have to motivate a base of people to feel that they need or even want you around – the Democrats seem completely tied to the idea that trying too hard to get what you believe in – or indeed, even believing in anything too much – is per se bad. They seem to have convinced themselves that all they need to do is show up, be polite, and be willing to bargain with their fellow rational actors across the aisle, and the Government Machine will do the rest, spitting out Good Policy which is Good by definition of the fact that it is Bipartisan, never mind the fact that it is Bipartisan because the only things the two parties can agree on is how best to lurch this nation farther into a christian dominionist hellhole.

They will always find an excuse to justify the further erosion of your rights so long as you allow it. Let it never be forgotten that Jefferson Davis was inaugurated before Abraham Lincoln, that the first shots of the Civil War were fired from the South into a territory held by the federal government, nor that the Southern States were offered every opportunity to retain their peculiar institution for all time. They were not content to be left alone. They wanted control.

Remember: Reactionaries in every age do not wait for their feared plot to materialize. They are happy to take whatever action they deem necessary in order to prevent it. It is not sinking to their level to defend yourself from dirty tactics.

But the democratic leadership understand class solidarity, through a twisted bourgeois lens. They understand that they will not want for Abortions or Healthcare or Housing. They understand that their children will not be dislocated by climate change. That, or they do not care. What is in their heads is between them and their deities, but their actions make it clear: God isn’t coming to save us. The Democrats aren’t coming to save us. The politicians will always prefer the negative peace that is the absence of tension to the positive peace that is the presence of justice. We have abdicated the responsibility to fend off the rising tide of tyranny for too long. It is time for the working class to learn what solidarity means.

Arm yourself. Organize your neighborhood and workplace into unions or cooperatives. Join or start a mutual aid network. Plan for what you will do when the violence breaks out in earnest. Think about your medications. Think about your housing situation. Think about your own safety first. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Solidarity to anyone reading this. We’re done fucking around and we’re about to do a hell of a lot of finding out.

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The FDA though warns getting medications overseas from sites not regulated by the US could be dangerous. Under federal rules, the abortion pill can only be prescribed by certified clinicians and provided from FDA-inspected manufacturers.

A quick check on Amazon shows that federal rules being ignored.  And, just like the "certified clinicians" for generic Cialis, you're one if somebody says you're one.

Baywolfe wrote:

And conversely, the latter advocates must acknowledge that the former are committed to the intrinsic equal dignity of every human being, born and unborn.

This, right here, is the critical failure of the pro-birth movement. The law does not recognize a clump of cells as a person, and overturning Roe doesn't change that. Also, if you actually believe conservatives care about 'preserving life', there's a bridge I'd like to talk to you about.