To the....

[nwhiker]

To the "Bernie or Bust" people, the "the lesser of two evils is still evil" people, the "I have to vote my conscience" people, the "stop being hysterical about the Supreme Cour, Roe v Wade is settled", the "there is no difference between Clinton and Trump"...

... well, you little fuckers, thanks a lot. Women have lost the fundamental right to control our own bodies. We will be hostage to the state, forced to bear children we do not want. We will miss out on college education, lose career opportunities, be stuck in bad relationships, often consigned to poverty, and live lives much less full of joy and accomplishments, at the mercy of a mistake, a moment of folly, bad luck, or a rapist.

Aside from the selfish, privileged scum who just couldn't vote for her, four men share the blame:

Bernie Sanders and his oversize ego. He couldn't admit he lost to a woman so stayed in the race, screaming that it was rigged, and his stupid followers, as inane as Trump's morons, believed him, and believe him to this day.

James Comey. 'Nuff said. Fucker.

Mitch McConnell who stole Obama's SCOTUS pick.

While I want the above three to rot in a hell I don't believe in, the fourth person is as responsible, but on doesn't deserve quite that level of punishment.

Barack Obama. He didn't fight hard enough for Garland, just sorta let it happen. He had the bully pulpit of the presidency, but instead of protesting McConnell's thievery, he mentioned it from time to time, but did not fight tooth and nail for his pick. He also nominated a milquetoast white man, I still think that it would have been harder for McConnell to treat a Black woman, an Asian man, etc the way Garland was treated. A recess appointment would have been another possibility. I don't know, but clearly doing nothing was the wrong choice, and Obama was a weak president who didn't want to make waves, and wanted everyone to just get along. That didn't work too well.

I'm both enraged, horrified, and deeply, profoundly sad.

ETA Note that I did not include the 5 fascist members of the SCOTUS in my list of people to blame. They are perjurers who lied to get on the court, but they were known quantities, chosen because they would overturn Roe, and pretty much for nothing else... Amy Coathanger Barett couldn't even name the protections of the 1st Amendment, something even I can do, and was wildly panned as unqualified from a judicial point of view. However, as a handmaiden in her Christo-fascist church, her actual ability to law and judge was not a factor.