Breaking Majority Rules

When it comes to many cultural, political, and religious issues in America, we’ve been living through a multidecade battle. But for much of that time, only one side has been fighting. Most Americans thought issues like the right to an abortion and keeping religion out of public schools were decided. Those fights were in the past. As we’ve learned, a powerful minority didn’t see it that way. And thus, the road back will be long. Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: Why This Election Can’t Deliver What America Actually Wants on Abortion. “There are two equal and opposite forces at work on the issue of abortion this summer: If democracy were functioning, we would have abortion rights. The greasy levers of modern American democracy, however, have been co-opted by captured courts and Leonard Leo and dark money and religious zealotry. Those will be taken back not solely by the results of a single election, but by decades of reforms and reimagining how this all got so out of whack in the first place.”