These are personal rights issues, not left vs right issues - many far-right-wing libertarians also strongly supported these decisions.

And a few more court decisions could override those precedents forever. This new court could do it in a few weeks if it chose to.

The most powerful driving force in almost all people's lives is economics, and from that perspective both the Democrats and the Republicans are pro-capitalist parties, and senior Democrats fall all over themselves to reinforce this.

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Do you really, in your heart, believe that this is all going really well, that the Democrats are brilliant disciplined strategists, tireless, and yet somehow they are stymied over generations in getting the basic rights and services from their government that all other developed countries get, and it's those rotten voters that are at fault?