Rollback

The US Supreme Court has once again confirmed that it is a rogue and ideological institution. This week's rulings on affirmative action, student debt relief and LGBTQ rights only confirming that persistent efforts by right wing ideologues over decades are now paying off. Not content with ruling on contested cases, it is now trying to set policy with hypothetical situations being ruled on before they even happen.

It's no secret that the desire to roll back rights to the early 20th century status (if not the late 19th) will only further empower the oligarchy which already runs the country. Whatever meager rights had been won over the last 100 years by the underclass are now increasingly in jeopardy.

But here's the thing: history has a precedent that when the ruling class passes a limit which the population cannot abide, there is blowback in the form of protest, revolution and grass roots mobilization to force change.

It will hurt for a while but this attempt by Evangelicals and billionaires at creating a type of authoritarian theocracy will ultimately fail and in spectacular fashion.