Florida and Arkansas both recently added restrictions to the citizen amendment process, after ballot measures to expand abortion rights were successful in other states.
You’re not wrong. Somehow, though, even that deeply corrupt process has managed to out-democracy the unfathomably more corrupt process that leads to which elected leaders get into office and what they do with it.
Somehow, when it comes down to it, “Do you want abortion to be legal” can still receive a resounding “yes” from the people of the state. Putting extra layers in the way of that happening is still a bad thing I think even though the underlying process is subject to the same swampy awfulness that the whole rest of the thing is subject to.
That’s politics backed up by dark money for you! Washington and Oregon are the only two states I’ve lived in at voting age that had initiatives. And the first one I encountered in college … well, I’d not be in journalism without that. (not that I’m currently in journalism, but why split hairs when we’re now a target of the government?)
You’re not wrong. Somehow, though, even that deeply corrupt process has managed to out-democracy the unfathomably more corrupt process that leads to which elected leaders get into office and what they do with it.
Somehow, when it comes down to it, “Do you want abortion to be legal” can still receive a resounding “yes” from the people of the state. Putting extra layers in the way of that happening is still a bad thing I think even though the underlying process is subject to the same swampy awfulness that the whole rest of the thing is subject to.
That’s politics backed up by dark money for you! Washington and Oregon are the only two states I’ve lived in at voting age that had initiatives. And the first one I encountered in college … well, I’d not be in journalism without that. (not that I’m currently in journalism, but why split hairs when we’re now a target of the government?)