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I am amazed a homosexual can side with the conservatives , never mind be an mp , given their attitude towards gay people over the years
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The democrats are usually weak in the face of republican tactics, but I think this is unfair. Could Obama have 'ploughed on'? How? McConnell blocked it because he could and made sure he got his appointments because he could. How did democrats have the numbers to stop those appointments?
There's two parties in the US. One is very clearly to blame for this decision. It doesn't seem right to me to blame the other.
As of 1 January 2022, the population of the world was estimated to be 7,948,118,521. Food shortages to come, climate change, ecological catastrophes on the horizon, wars, and this is what humanity is fiddling with whilst the planet burns.
It is the exact opposite of that. It's a victory for the minority. The 50 Democratic members of the senate represent over 40 million more people that their Republican counterparts. 65% of the population were in favor of upholding Roe v Wade. Our ****ed up and outdated system of government has led to minority rule. And our democracy is in danger of slipping away. The Republicans' attempted coup only just failed in the winter of 2020/21, but if they get another chance, they have more people in place to get what they want next time.
Mrs Citizen highlighted this to me a while ago and here's a recent article in The Independent.
Anti-abortion police could criminalise period-tracking app data and search history
Apparently, data protection is going to be a huge issue in the USA and is linked to Healthcare companies (others will know more about this). I don't know the full details but we're heading in a grim direction. We really do need to fight this stuff.
I wonder if Clarence Thomas would vote in favour of a ban on inter racial marriage? that's going to be next if far right Republicans have their way.
The US is headed towards a chaotic future. Politics there is becoming very much 'us and them' - two diametrically opposed sides, with no in-between, and no-one shifting sides at all.
Is it possible to take the politics out of this matter?
Its a country that has such a diverse make up , I love it music , film TV which is so ingrained into our own culture , decisions like this makes a mockery of their constitutions and laws ..
lets be fair there are some bizarre countries out there whose freedoms /laws or lack of we would never consider right , I am so glad to be and like in the UK ( thanks Mum /Dad )
Texas seems to be a bit of a shitshow lately, with Republicans in charge. I've always wondered though, when they say about States breaking away (seceding?) and they're the Nth biggest economy, how much of that would be lost as it'd move "over the border" back to the USA.
Though they really do need to do something about the senate, where a state like Wyoming has the same votes as somewhere like California.
Here is a extract of you setting out a view on abortion whilst chastising people for having the temerity to criticise Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents and explaining how political points scoring is perfectly acceptable.
As much as I dislike what is happening in the world, you need workable solutions, and you can't ignore the political points scoring going on either. BTW What do you think about abortion? Millions of babies have been separated from their parents by having their lives terminated on a whim. Who is crying for them?
The "United States" would then be a wholly different country. The popular democracy you call for in the Senate already exists in the House of Representatives. The equal representation of states in the Senate is a defining feature of the American constitutional structure without which the nation could never have been formed. The smaller states in those early days would never have tolerated sacrificing their autonomy to larger states, and so the federal republic would have died aborning.
Think the United Nations Security Council, where the United Kingdom, with its piddling 60 million population, gets the same veto rights as China, with a population 20 times as large. The United Nations could never have been formed if small-population states like the UK and France were not protected from the "democratic" power of behemoths like China.
That's where the politics come into it, people have different views.
The constitution gives the individual states certain powers over the federal government to stop overreach, hence the reason why I asked if this matter can be resolved without the involvements of politics.
What I do doesn't affect other people, and I don't really care what other people do as long as it doesn't interfere with my life. I'm not against abortion, I just thought is was interesting that some people think illegal aliens should have certain rights, while unborn children shouldn't, which is political.
I'm aware of the HoR, but doesn't legislation have to pass through both so, like now, laws can be blocked despite the senators representing a minority of the population? I'm guessing it wasn't as much of an issue not all that long ago before the Republicans went full on nutjob.
Yeah, UNSC is ridiculous, especially with the permanent members being able to veto anything (Russia blocking everything tp do with Ukraine is the most recent example).
Too bad you didn't weigh in earlier with your certainty. This is the very issue that has been debated in the United States since 1973. You could have saved Americans a lot of trouble. It would help, though, if you could further clarify when the 'foetus' does become a 'baby.' Is it the moment of birth, as contrasted with one second or one minute earlier? Is it the point of "viability?" Is it conception? America has wrestled passionately and sincerely with these profound issues. The Supreme Court has said, essentially, 'We don't know, and will no longer pretend to know. The people can decide for themselves, in their particular states.'
You prefer Wales Bales' 'facts' and certainties to mine, and approve the Supreme Court decision?
OK - I think that is a very bad and sad place to be - but your choice (although obviously not a woman's choice!)
But help me out by pointing to any dictionary definition of the word baby that includes the foetus state. I have looked and cannot find. I am not talking about whether a foetus would be viable or not - that is a different question. My response to Wales Bales was about his use of the word, and then doubling down with claiming it was 'a fact', and so not open to debate.
Yes, legislation has to pass through both houses. That's the point. That's how small-population Republican states like Wyoming and Nebraska and Iowa and the Dakotas and Missouri and Kansas and Missouri and Alabama and Tennessee and Utah, and even large-population Republican states like Texas and Florida, defend their autonomy from massive-population Democratic states like New York and California.
It's also how small-population Democratic states like Maine and Vermont and Maryland, and even large-population Democratic states like California and New York, will defend their autonomy from the Republican wave that is expected to sweep across America during this November's mid-term election.
The confusion stems from imagining that the United States is a unitary nation. It is not. It is a federation of 50 almost-if-not-quite-completely-sovereign states with their own legislatures, their own laws, their own cultures and their own presidents (governors). The federal government does not like this, of course, and tries to coerce the states any which way it can. The Senate, with its equal representation, makes this impossible, or at least a lot more difficult.
The U.S. Senate is vastly more democratic than the UN Security Council. No state has veto power in the U.S. Senate. If 60 percent of the vote can be gathered, then anything can be passed, and, contingent upon any such legislation surviving constitutional scrutiny in the courts, everyone will have to fall in line no matter what.
These are difficult and serious issues that deserve to be addressed, as they have been in the United States, without resort to snark. It can all seem ridiculous sometimes when you see contending protesters with their incendiary signs screaming at one another in the streets, but underlying all that are serious philosophical — and biological — questions that have to do with the nature of human life.