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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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There really are some pretty distinct similarities between the 1850s and modern day.

Heck, the fury that blue states expressed towards the Dobbs decision (such as claiming it showed "democracy is in peril", "they want to take away our rights" or threatening to pack the SC) heavily reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's words on slavery:

*But you will break up the Union rather than submit to a denial of your Constitutional rights.*

*(...) When you make these declarations, you have a specific and well-understood allusion to an assumed Constitutional right of yours, to take slaves into the federal territories, and to hold them there as property. But no such right is specifically written in the Constitution. That instrument is literally silent about any such right. We, on the contrary, deny that such a right has any existence in the Constitution, even by implication.*

*Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.*
gpt
&gt;Dobbs decision

I'm against this in principle, but also understand that it isn't codified anywhere, and until it is, nobody has a right to anything. I think we should go ahead and make it an Amendment, but for that to happen, a lot of people need to vote for it.

Until the right to abortion is actually codified, none of this is a threat to democracy. All it is is a threat to what a lot of people believe. That is the nature of democracy. You can't have everything you want without compromising heavily on something or the other. Until the right to abortion is properly codified to be a right, I'm not going to preach about "our democracy." I am going to vote towards what I feel is necessary towards whatever I think is most important come the next election. If people think that's a problem, well, that means that the great experiment of democracy isn't all sunshine and flowers, and if you don't like that, then you're the one against democracy.