Posted on 01/28/2020 4:11:39 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Old Dominion is trending in an ominous direction, and it’s a problem for the whole country.
On Monday, the Virginia General Assembly ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Advocates of the ERA have argued that Virginia is the 38th and final state needed to add it to the Constitution, though the legal argument for that is dubious.
Nevertheless, if the ERA were to become law, it would almost certainly provide the legal basis to enshrine left-wing social dogmas nationwide, among other negative consequences.
Other states should take note: No matter how conservative your state has been in the past, you’re just one leftist legislature away from radical change.
But there are signs of hope.
The massive pro-Second Amendment protest in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 20, which drew more than 20,000 people, signaled that many Virginians are waking up to the radicalism of the newly empowered Democratic majority in the state legislature.
It would be wrong, however, to suppose that gun owners are the only Virginians in the crosshairs of the new powers that be.
The reality is that tussles between large swaths of Virginians and their lawmakers may become more frequent as the state moves sharply to the left—which has occurred for a variety of reasons. Among them is the phenomenal growth of the Washington “blob” that continues to ooze out farther and farther into suburban Virginia.
The values of the Washington, D.C., progressive elites are simply becoming pervasive and now dominate in Richmond. And the result of this blue takeover has been a tidal wave of policies that signal Virginia’s new direction.
But gun control isn’t the only initiative on the liberal agenda.
Though the ratification is unlikely to pass legal muster, it generally shows the direction Virginia is heading.
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Watch New Mexico, the decades old rule by members of the Lujan family rolls on in the new governor who has shown a great like for ‘monkey see, monkey do’ political rule. All Democrat state houses and a dem governor is ripe for a Virginia type takeover. So far she pretty well has echoed desires to copy pretty well all the democrat dreams like in California, New Jersey and Virginia.
Yep, don’t vote RAT for anything, including dog catcher.
The legal augment for the ERA to move forwsrd from here isn’t dubious it’s utterly non-existent.
I hate to say it but you know about Texas Toast?
Too many prune pickers and illegals have entered the state. The die is cast. Purple becomes blue. Texas us another NY or Cal or pick your state with a massive city population and a big RED center. Even the Electoral College will not save us or the Republic. We have become a democratic socialist rabble.
The next step in our progression to hell is Civil War when somebodys finally say enough.
Now they’re doing that anyway even without the ERA.
Is there a way states can de-ratify amendments?
I don’t believe that there is.
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