Coming Monday

One of the final decisions to come in this year's poison soup of Supreme Court decisions is the EPA case, where the right-wing majority is expected to abrogate the EPA's ability to regulate anything that causes climate change, and possibly government regulation by the executive branch itself.

I want to quote a thread by David Atkins, who describes himself as a progressive reformist who runs a qualitative research firm. He writes at least sometimes for the Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, and other publications, and is an elected member of the Democratic National Committee from California.

Next up: this illegitimate, stolen court will dismantle the federal regulatory apparatus on Monday. This will push each state to have to implement its own wildly different environmental and regulatory regimes.

They're going to literally destroy the country.

In a country this polarized, leaving each state to do whatever it wants while keeping Congress broken and undemocratic by filibusters, gerrymandering and big money in elections, means the country will inevitably balkanize. Originalism is a path to national destruction.

Blue states will be providing corridors and safe havens for women, LGBT people and others, in shadows of the 1860s. Companies won't be able to have offices in some states. People won't send their kids to college in certain states. States will be constantly suing each other.

It all comes down to the fact that the compromises the Framers made to get slave states on board with a union were bad ones and led to a civil war. Reconstruction didn't last long enough. Jim Crow should have been demolished by force. This is the same shit, different day.

You can't have normal folks coexisting legally with states run by vicious, cruel white christian nationalists, without federal regulations and rights guarantees, while the former are disenfranchised and their votes count for less. The country won't hold together.

The "states should do whatever they want and the federal government should have no power except what literally passes filibuster-proof through our broken, rigged, apartheid, and dark-money-drenched Congress and White House" crowd, if they win, will literally destroy the country.

Once again, California is not going to follow Idaho's rules. We're just not. We don't have to and our people deserve better. And if we have to Constitutionally protect basic social rights and set up our independent EPA because the GOP destroyed the federal government, we will.

And because we're the fifth largest economy in the world, California's decisions will have a lot of sway. People from Idaho will come here to get abortions and we *will* protect them. Automakers will follow California's standards.

Originalists have no clue the Pandora's Box they are opening.

Letting every state functionally be a country unto itself while leaving Congress rigged and broken is a horrifically bad idea. Republicans are literally destroying this country's ability to function as a unified whole.

I only have one disagreement: I think the originalists either don't care about the Pandora's Box or they welcome the upheaval it will bring, because instability serves them and their police state.