looks like the supreme court thoroughly killed the voting rights act

chrondog wrote:With all the muck running through our current political discourse and the pitiful historical education in this country, there isn't knowledge or space to reference hundreds of years of Western intellectual history when talking to people about a the current moment which is basically unrecognizable to anyone born before 1950.

You are probably right. Obviously the disruptive speed of information technology and the privatization schemes of the last forty years of neoliberalism truly have undone the demos. We don't really have a public sphere to have these sorts of conversations, which makes even the most concrete conversations about the exercise of power within society seem weirdly speculative. But I don't think the engaged citizen has been swept in the dustbin of history just yet.

Chrono, you should read Rodgers' Age of Fracture. It's a really great intellectual history of the last fifty or so years. You'd enjoy it.

Let’s all celebrate the life of RBG today as we look at the misery that SCOTUS unleashed on Texas.

so there's like, no real future, right?

The future still exists, but "American prosperity" has always been unsustainable and our quality of life will continue to decline for decades. I tend to think that would be true even if our social structure wasn't a complete dumpster fire due to global resource trends.

The Supreme Court is definitely fucked and should be packed to hell. Anything to basically kill it as an institution, it's nothing but an appendage of the activist right.

just wait til they get around to gutting the rest of the civil rights era