• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Hopefully setting a precedent for other states in similar situations. The states need to stop relying on the fed to protect them from radicals and get it done themselves. Their reliance on the fed has allowed extremists to thrive in their state and bleed into local politics.

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      7 months ago

      Just wait for the extremists to get in fed again. Those states rights are gonna get a whole lot weaker if the states do things the extremists don’t like.

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      They quashed a near total ban because a handful of Republicans either didn’t like how extreme it was or didn’t like how difficult it made their reelections. They didn’t seize control and boot out the radicals. Arizona’s radicals enacted a 15 week ban in 2022 that’s now back to being the law of the land.