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You thought that hardline conservatives were dead ? You thought "Oh yeah, with the Orange Dufus in office they're so going to lose!" Well, I hope yesterday showed you just how wrong you were. 

So, if you were watching the news or reading the papers yesterday, you saw the big salvo the hard right have been saving up to hit you with just when you thought The Orange Duce' was on the ropes. Turns out you were wrong. He was just a distraction, while the real damage was being done belowdecks, out of your sight. This has been coming for decades, and few people saw it. I've tried to issue some form of warning before in these pages, but even I didn't see the worst of it coming.

The DNC dropped the ball. They should have been watching the local races from 1996 onward. This is the fruition of a long term Alt-Reich plan. They grabbed control of as many state houses as they could, in order to gerrymander as many congressional districts as possible. In the mean time, their litigators were fighting carefully selected battles in the courts. They went full tilt at the Voting Rights act, and knocked down the best part of it. They went after the McCain-Feingold act and blew the guts out of it. These were not accidents, they were carefully planned. They put together ALEC to put out law templates that carefully limited minority votes, without actually instituting poll taxes or registration tests. They wanted large scale voter suppression and largely they got it. Then the coup de grace' was McTurtle barring any appointments in Obama's second term. Between that and natural attrition they got some 200 or so federal judgeships they can hand out to movement conservatives. We're pretty much screwed for the next 30 years. Say goodbye to progress. no more Abortion rights, no more voting rights act. no more equal rights of any kind, no more McCain Feingold (even though it's mostly dead after Cits United.) No more consumer protection, no more financial services protection, back to payday loans at 465% interest, back to everything bad that the Democrats have tried to protect us from. Back, essentially, to the good old days of Jim Crow. By the way, Orange Douchebag has made it okay to say "nigger" again.