Heinous Hobby-Lobby SC Ruling Should Evoke All-time Record Voting This Off-Year

It has been clear for years that one of the (many) political weaknesses of those softies in this country who feel we should be our sister's and brother's keepers is that we are clearly not rabid enough about voting.  And even more-so about getting out the vote.

Thus elections like the 2000 presidential were close enough that a corrupt far-from-supreme court felt they could get away with tossing their weight into the pan of justice and overturning the actual vote of the electorate, stealing the election for a decayed-brain monkey strung along by his self-appointed monster and the vile war-mongers they conjured up in their lab of horrors.

Considering all that has been invested, including actual lives, in achieving the right to vote for others besides white males, this is taking on the proportions of an Epic Tragedy.  It could easily be argued that our system of government, once the model of justice and human rights equity for the world, is on the brink of being lost.

And, yes, the effect of our votes has been hampered by a ridiculous amount of gerrymandering, from what I know almost all of that in recent years on behalf of the repubic (sic) party.  Not to mention that same "party's" (what a quaint term it seems in this light) vociferous efforts at restricting access to voting via crude techniques like requiring exotic documentation including photo ID, often invoked late in the election process.  Not to mention still-on-going electronic voting device fraud.  Full-on election cheating.  Please remind me how that fits in a supposedly one-person, one-vote democracy.

The redoubtable Charles Pierce at Esquire has a bit to offer on this:

Hereabouts, we've long been amused by the deep thoughts of Utah's Senator Mike Lee, who is to the Constitution what Paul Ryan is to actual economics. Which is to say, he is recognized as a konztitooshinul skolar because he keeps telling people that he is — just as the Zombie Eyed Granny Starver has become known as a "budget wonk" because enough people have called him that — despite the fact that the full implications of the Ninth, 13th, 14th and 15th amendments seem to have eluded his notice. Anyway, Mike Lee put his very big brain to work yesterday regarding the Supreme Court's Humanae Vitae decision in favor of the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood folks. Mike Lee's very big brain labored very hard and came up with a constitutional basis for why women are basically sluts.

During an appearance on Sirius XM's The Wilkow Majority, host Andrew Wilkow argued that the real question in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., was about "whether or not a person who runs a business should be forced to provide something that is largely for recreational behavior, if it goes against their religious beliefs." Lee, responded by saying "Yea, that's right, that's right," before claiming that "this administration is using the often coercive power of the federal government to force people into their way of being and their way of existing, their way of believing and thinking and acting."

 So there really isn't any excuse any more.

Pierce also has a good section in that linked post regarding the fight for voting rights.

With the same conclusion:

 So there really isn't any excuse any more.

And then he has this:

Quite simply, if the Republican party gains control of the United States Senate, and if it maintains that majority in 2016, neither Barack Obama, nor Hillary Clinton, if she were to succeed him in office, will be allowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice. It will not happen. There will be nobody whose views and judicial philosophy will be satisfactory to the majority Republicans unless whoever the president is happens to nominate Antonin (Short Time) Scalia's left nut. Yesterday, the bare 5-4 majority of Federalist Society Papists demonstrated that it is heedless of concern for women's health, and poised to eliminate the ability of public employees -- and, later, any employees -- from organizing themselves.