Deliberative democracy in action
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The governor of Wisconsin — who actually represents a popular majority — called for a legislative session to discuss the repeal of the state’s anachronistic abortion ban, passed 70 years before women had the right to vote in the state. The self-appointed dictators who control the Wisconsin legislature give this less than a minute of consideration combined:
The state of democracy in Wisconsin…concerning!
(analysis is from work with @cwarshaw)
On abortion policy and democracy in the states: https://t.co/XEUvfNvts4 https://t.co/OFySCCIAjZ pic.twitter.com/7TfnoN5zSp— Jake M. Grumbach (@JakeMGrumbach) August 13, 2022
A lesson Republicans could have taken from the Kansas abortion initiative is “we might want to back off from extremely unpopular abortion bans.” The lesson they actually will take is “we need to cut voters out of the loop as much as possible.” And needless to say, as Ilya Shapiro recently conceded with inadvertent honesty, rejecting the will of popular majorities was critical to Roe being overruled in the first place:
"here is a straightforward description of reality. what i intend to argue is, what if reality is ideologically inconvenient?" https://t.co/ShK1Pdt0Ri— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 12, 2022