imperious individuals in the face. I'd guess the five male Catholic justices, if they're applying faith to decision-making as they do indeed seem to be doing, might be viewing the issue ONLY through his Catholic lenses. If you're that Catholic then you're not thinking much about how other religions would make use of this same loophole you've created for Christian-owned businesses and Christian institutions. You think monochromatically about the one and only faith - the Roman Catholic faith, particularly if you subscribe to a strength of faith that's of the fire-in-the-belly fundamentalist column.
I would like to see if their false piety in support of religious freedom-of-choice stands up as strong for that same religious free-pass if some Islamic faith-based operation claimed that same exemption.
And there should be other challenges advanced in other ways, in other areas. Think about it. Doesn't it seem, sometimes, as though we're being attacked from all sides? From every direction and seemingly every dimension! It seems not a day flits by wherein I don't see or notice a new assault on some liberal/progressive/Democratic/established-back-in-New-Deal-days campaign, person, agency, organization, mentality. Heck, maybe I'm just giving in to a little paranoia. But I find myself marveling at all the different ways the enemy seeks to attack us. Sometimes they're stopped or called out in public for it, but they're always looking for a way in, a way around, a way through, a way under, a way over. WHATEVER. And they don't care whatever. And dammit, they're keeping us busy, the way our sparring teacher coached us to do to our own adversaries on the map in order to prevail ultimately: "keep 'em busy!" And I don't think our side is very good or very shrewd in doing that. Maybe because the truly devious ones tend to gravitate toward Slytherin House rather than to the Gryffindors. But we need to be more shrewd, ourselves.
For one thing, explore THIS for awhile (The Powell Memo):
http://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/
And in more detail...
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
(Paragraph 6 after the "CONFIDENTIAL..." is EYE-OPENING. He as much as said we need to protect and defend racism. Too many minorities speaking out, dammit!)
Reading through it is freakin' STUNNING, and most illuminating. I found sometimes that merely substituting any and all references to the liberal or left with tea baggers or the tea party, and astonishingly, the passage still holds true, still relevant to this very hour! Also, the strategist in me notes here the very pointed reference to Ralph Nader and what a menace to the corporate world he is because - because - because - all positives inserted here. Some of the Dark Side strategists might have read that and immediately started trying to figure out how to deal with that "menace." Wonder if their ilk convinced him (maybe a mole or two, starting a drumbeat) to run for President in 2000 - gambling on him being a spoiler for the Democratic candidate. *** NOTE, meanwhile, how devious they think. Note how they weren't content to just campaign straight out and try to win over a majority of voters. They hedged their bets. That side does things like this all the time! Whether they have enough votes to back postponing a statewide election til an odd year or an odd month, because they know there aren't as many going to the polls on our side in off-year elections, while on the other hand, they're pretty good at firing up their base for those outings.
chris christie did some hide-the-salami tricks with Cory Booker's Senate race. He moved it away from the general election because he knew more Dems would come out to support Cory Booker, and he didn't want Booker on the ballot with other issues and candidates (like himself).
http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-nj-special-election-date-set-oct-16-2013-6
The GOP talked a Virginia Dem into resigning for big new jobs for himself and his daughter so his State Senate post was open and they could change the balance of power against VA governor Terry McAuliffe. Look how THAT throws a monkey wrench at the ACA.
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/gop-talks-democrat-stepping-down
Combine that with the monkey wrench that they threw on Hobby Lobby's behalf. That's a two-fer. Double monkey wrenches - at the ACA and at a woman's right to choose. See how deviously they think and plot and strategize? We need to do likewise. Okay maybe we don't actually do some of this stuff they do (and some of that stuff being illegal doesn't stop them). But FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN if we can think a little deviously, maybe we might be better able to anticipate incoming jabs from them. Or maybe we might have better equipment, or training, or supporting infrastructure to nullify the attack or minimize the damages.
To know and understand the enemy, seems to me, is to start to out-think and out-smart them.
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