Supreme importance

Where there's a will of the voters...

There is much (rightful) consternation now about republican legislatures in my home state of Michigan and in Wisconsin taking away powers from the incoming Democratic leaders who so soundly trounced republican candidates on November 6th.  What they are literally doing is undermining democracy and as such, the will of us, the voters.

Keep two points in mind:  First, virtually all of these attempts to usurp power will be met with lawsuits, and courts thus far have not shown a propensity to overturning the will of the voters (at least when it comes to elections...our paychecks are another matter).  However, this does highlight the importance of State Supreme Court elections--both states currently have a republican majority on their state Supreme Courts and as we've seen over the past few years, when republicans can't win on merit, they're more than happy to cheat.  We cannot trust republican judges to do the right thing; therefore we need to make sure we elect Democratic state justices.

Second (and I've noted this before), you can only undermine the will of the people for so long before it gets ugly--there aren't enough republican congresspeople or members of the Chamber of Commerce to stop the barreling train that is the will of a state's (or a nation's) voters.

Republicans may win in the short term, but their victory will most assuredly be Pyrrhic.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee