Alito, 76, is one of six conservative justices on the nine-person Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative lean wouldn’t change if Alito retired and Trump nominated a new justice. But Alito’s retirement would allow Trump to appoint a fourth justice to the court. Alito was nominated by then-President George W. Bush in the fall of 2005 and took his seat on the bench in January 2006.
Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court for several rulings against him on controversial issues like his sweeping tariff policy and his challenge to birthright citizenship. Alito sided with Trump on those two issues.
The timing of a Supreme Court justice’s retirement is crucial because the party in power can change the court’s political leaning for decades.
Conservatism cannot be effectively cured by peaceful means. Fascism cannot be reasoned with. Only the erasure of conservatism can cure it.
Your approach of calling my suggestions of forceful resistance “conservative” is inaccurate and does not support any effective countermeasure to fascism. Being peaceful and equitable toward conservatism is how we get more fascism.
I admit that violence is very rarely the right answer to any problem. In the case of fascism, however, it truly is the only effective answer.
That’s two different things. We SHOULD use violence to defend ourselves against fascism. But that doesn’t mean killing all the conservatives once in power. That’s hierarchal thinking.
Fighting fascists isn’t the same because fascists are clear enemies literally seeking our death and misery. That’s defending yourself and your community.
I respectfully disagree. Fascism is just a flavor of conservatism. If left unchecked, a conservative will always drift toward fascism. It is their natural inclination. Without early resistance, unchecked conservatism will always naturally develop into fascism. Always.
The Democratic Party, our only real opposition to the fascist party, has been infested by conservatives known as neo-liberals. These conservatives pretend to be progressive (the opposite of conservative) by promising progressive policies, but their actions are consistently in support of conservatism. This is the mechanism by which conservatism has remained unchecked in the U.S. for so long.
We are now suffering the effects of unchecked conservatism, which is fascism. We have moved past the early stages. We cannot wait until the late stages to forcibly resist or we will lose.
The time to defend against fascism is not after they are putting us in the camps. It’s not after soldiers are enforcing conservative policies on our streets. The time to act is now, before the later stages of conservatism have been enacted.
I am unaware of any effective opposition to fascism that is peaceful that can be apllied to our current situation. Even if we have a blue wave in November and again in 2028, conservatives will learn and return with a new way to overwhelm the normal people with fascism. And that’s assuming they are effectively stopped from advancing their fascism after midterms. We may already be too far along for courts or legislators to stop them.
This is a fight against cancer. As long as it continues to exist, it will never stop trying to kill us. Never. It needs to be completely erased.