Eh... our current crop of "Republicans" doesn't give a shit about states rights when it comes to minorities they don't like/pushing an extremist Evangelical agenda. And they've spent the last four years trying to repeal the ACA and successfully undermining abortion rights; it's not clear Trump would have won if it weren't for the Voting Rights Act getting gutted and the resulting large scale voting suppression, which they didn't even pretend wasn't the goal. (Republican election boards flat out stating they are eliminating early voting and removing polling places in order to discourage minorities from voting. Utterly bald-faced.) I'm assuming we will get at least halfway back to where we were under W, which was bad.
I'm not trying to be too doomsday about it, but the last time we had a Republican president and Congress, they started the Great Recession. And I need to be prepared.
I hope to hell Obama does a recess appointment to the Supreme Court, and someone more liberal than the compromise candidate the Republicans had approved and now are refusing to even consider.
Definitely the relative safety of Washington State is a good place to fight from. I'm a lot more worried about my friends elsewhere, many of which were already struggling.
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Date: 2016-11-09 07:56 pm (UTC)I'm not trying to be too doomsday about it, but the last time we had a Republican president and Congress, they started the Great Recession. And I need to be prepared.
I hope to hell Obama does a recess appointment to the Supreme Court, and someone more liberal than the compromise candidate the Republicans had approved and now are refusing to even consider.
Definitely the relative safety of Washington State is a good place to fight from. I'm a lot more worried about my friends elsewhere, many of which were already struggling.