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I am a feminist and I have many feminist friends. This is from a letter that I just sent to one of them:
Why are many American feminists hoping that the rigged election will produce a president who might appoint somebody to the Supreme Court who might not repeal Roe v. Wade?
Why don't they question a Constitution that gave an unelected (and therefore undemocratic) Supreme Court the power to make decisions over their bodies that cannot be appealed?
The framers clearly stated their intent in the Preamble to the Constitution. They said "in order to," then listed what they wanted to do, and said for those purposes they "do ordain and establish this Constitution...." That is clearly stated intent.
But they gave an unelected Supreme Court the sole power to interpret the Constitution and the Supreme Court THREW OUT THE INTENT OF THE FRAMERS. They said that the Preamble is NOT part of the Constitution and that therefore the Supreme Court is free to rule as to what they think the intent of the framers may have been, without regard to the stated intent of the framers in the Preamble.
Why do feminists accept that an unelected, undemocratic Supreme Court has the right to tell them what to do with their bodies? Why do people accept the fact that they have no say in who gets to be on the Supreme Court, and allow a President to appoint justices, and Congress to confirm justices, when the people are prohibited by the Constitution from directly electing that President, and Congress itself, not the popular vote, is the sole judge of who gets to sit in Congress? Even if we had honest elections, the Constitution would still allow the popular vote to be overridden by the Electoral College, Congress, by the winning candidate conceding. or by Supreme Court intervention. We don't even have the final say in who will appoint the people who have the final say in what we can or cannot do.
Why do people vote for officials the Constitution does not grant them any way to hold accountable during their terms of office? It is what they do during their term in office that is the only thing that matters. Trying to replace them after the damage is done doesn't undo the damage.
This is tyranny. This is slaves pleading with their slavemasters for less cruel treatment, and believing that less cruel treatment is an acceptable substitute for freedom.
Nobody has the right to appoint somebody who can rule us and tell us what to do. In a democracy, the highest law of the land cannot be unqualified cronies appointed by a fraudulently elected president, over whom the people have no control.
Instead of hoping that the next rigged election produces a president who will appoint somewhat less cruel slavemasters to rule over us, feminists should be challenging the legitimacy of a Constitution that granted the power to rule over us to an unelected bunch of partisan thugs.
