I never thought I’d be grateful to the Alabama Supreme Court for anything, but now I am. With its decision deeming frozen embryos to be children under state law, that all-Republican court has done the impossible. It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling.
Actually stopping that means both volunteering and, if you can afford it, donating
It’s nice to imagine conservatives becoming victims of their own oppression, but that has never stopped their oppression in the past. If history is our guide, there is no reason to believe that the frog can ever jump out of the pot, no matter how fast it boils.
Conservatism naturally progresses toward fascism. That is what it is at its core. It cannot stop on its own. It can only be stopped by external force.