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The revelation that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision has not motivated left-wing democrats to effectively mobilize on an issue they claim to care about. They are made powerless by their dependence on liberalism and loyalty to people like Barack Obama who undermine them.

By Margaret Kimberley / Black Agenda Report

On May 2, 2022, a memo written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was leaked toPolitico.com. Alito made clear that the court with a 6 to 3 conservative majority intends to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which made abortion legal in the United States.

Reaction to the news was swift and predictable. Liberals expressed outrage and marched on federal courthouses and even to the homes of Supreme Court justices. Barack Obama released a long winded700 word statementdeclaring himself, and his wife, strongly opposed to the courts imminent decision. The statement is amusing because it gives the impression that Obama had nothing to do with the current state of affairs.

As a presidential candidate in 2008 Obamapromisedto sign theFreedom of Choice Act, which would have codified abortion rights into federal law. But once in office he never pushed congress to pass it. In typical Obamaesque fashion he would claim to believe that women had the right to choose abortion, but that he didnt want to demonize the opposition, and he wanted to find consensus on the issue. After his usual routine on the one hand this, but on the other hand that on April 29, 2009 he finallysaidout loud what was clear. The Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority. It wasnt even his lowest legislative priority. Obama never lifted a finger to get it passed, even duringhis first two years in office when he had majorities in the House and the Senate.

Knowing full well that Roe v. Wade hinged on having a supportive Supreme Court in place, he dithered on doing what he had the power to do. In 2013 he knew that the democrats might lose control of the senate in the 2014 election. He asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, already 80-years old and a cancer patient, to step down. She declined and he didnt press the issue. In 2016 conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died and senate republicans refused to even hold hearings to confirm Obamas nominee Merrick Garland. Obama had the option of making arecess appointmentthat would have put Garland on the court but he didnt do that either. Such a move would have been controversial, and perhaps Garlands presence would have been short, but it would have made clear that democrats were as committed as they claimed to be on the issue of abortion rights.

Instead theyplay gameswith democratic voters. Any unhappiness with the democrats is met with the plea to protect the federal judiciary from conservatives. This ploy is nothing but a cynical effort to keep left leaning democrats in the fold and to discredit anyone who questions the partys continued failures to do what the people want them to do.

Now the liars and hypocrites like House SpeakerNancy Pelosiwho once claimed abortion was a fading issue are sending fundraising appeals to brain washed liberals who will again write checks and declare their devotion like Stockholm Syndrome hostages. Hillary Clintons foolish appeals to conservatives included choosing anti-choice senator Tim Kaine as a running mate and at times saying she was ambivalent about abortion are now forgotten as the supposed left of the party remain lost.

They are lost because they dont know the most basic rules of political mobilizations. Instead of harassing SCOTUS justices at home, they should be harassing their democratic representatives. Why march to a courthouse instead of to the office of democratic member of congress and demand that they make abortion legal? In particular, senators have the ability to end the filibuster which would give the senate the ability to pass a Freedom of Choice Act with their small majority margin. Every democratic senator should be quaking in his or her boots for fear that theyll be turned out of office if they do not act to protect abortion rights.

Of course they know they have nothing to fear. They know their people have been brainwashed into ineffectiveness and are incapable of showing even minimal opposition to their inaction. After all, Joe Biden announced that $40billion is going to Ukraine, or rather to the military industrial complex, with no pushback from people who always claim to be progressives. While MAGA hat wearing right wingers are said to be propagandized, liberals again show themselves to be even more happily captive to their leadership.

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members are no more useful than the rest of their colleagues. CongresswomenBarbara Lee and Cory Bushtell stories about the abortions they had as teenagers. The entire CBC weighed in with astatementclaiming concern for marginalized communities and women of color while also bemoaning the actions of the far right. But none of them have offered a strategy for doing what they and the rest of the democratic party have the ability to do, legislate abortion protection.

Personal stories are a poor substitute for action and so are the usual rhetorical fights with conservatives. But rhetoric is all we have as abortion rights will surely disappear across much of the country. Obama admitted the low priority for this and other issues of importance to democratic voters. Joe Biden is no different. As long as what passes for a left wing is in the hands of cynical politicians and deluded liberals, we can expect more of the same.

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