Missouri Republicans were able to swiftly overturn abortion rights and paid sick leave using an uncommon procedural move, sparking outrage from Democrats and advocates who say the legislature has ignored the will of the people.
In November 2024, Missouri voters passed two major ballot initiatives: Amendment 3, which reinstated abortion rights lost after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Proposition A, which guaranteed paid sick leave for over 700,000 workers, the Missouri Independent reported.
Both passed with strong support across party lines, with Proposition A earning 58% of the vote. Since their passage, conservative lawmakers have worked to undermine or reverse the measures, citing economic concerns and ideological opposition.
“But they represent the people”.
Or, better yet - “we cannot have mere MAJORITIES of those people in the cities overriding the good people (read: white people) living in the hinterlands of the state/country - land should be just as important a factor as the number of people in a region…”
Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.
They couldn’t force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.
The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.
Hopefully they don’t pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.
Next election on the ballot.
Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.
“We the people” folks must be ready to protest right?
Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.
Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.
People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.
this is definitely LAMF
Missouri voted for a Republican government.
Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?
Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.
Wait… You guys don’t even have paid sick leave…?
Most states don’t have mandatory sick leave, and there is no federal requirement. Here in WA we just got it in 2018. Before that it was up to each employer to decide if they wanted to offer it.
We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
And people get shamed for using it.
Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it… especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
and they’ve taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it’ll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
Freedom to work while you’re sick!
Yeah, but all the millions of the temporarily-embarrassed future multi-millionaires side with the obscenely parasitic rich, because my word, they might be part of the parasitic class too some day, and just imagine if a fraction of their wealth were to go toward someone getting reasonable health care coverage w/o being tied to a business, or having decent sick leave!
I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol
you can spell missouri without misery.
They just won’t let you
Keep voting Republican, Missouri.
Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.
They are not smart people.
I swear a whole lot of men vote Republican because of marketing - meaning, some of them seem to think their penis will turn into a vagina if they vote Democratic.
It kinda seems like the US’ democracy is completely worthless.
Its not a democracy
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic because of the state of things or if you’re one of those “the US is a republic” people, but
In fact, a constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy, not a direct democracy.
Yes it is.
I mean it even touts itself as one of the best democracies in the world. That’s like 80% of their war propaganda.
On paper. In reality it’s an oligarchy.
Again, I’m aware of the state of things. This was about “a republic is not a democracy” idiots.
Well, that’s all water under the bridge now.
The US was never a particularly good representative republic on it’s best days, and those days are far behind us. Calling the US a democracy of any kind is a lie.
So you also fall for what the CCP says about being communist just because they call themselves that?
Naïve as fuck lmao.
As you’ll see if you actually read my comment, it’s about idiots arguing a republic is not a democracy. I’m very much aware of the state of things.
Each state has its own Constitution, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.
And they’re all worthless.
If you lived in NK or South Sudan you’d see the value in what we have.
Republicans aren’t fit to govern.
Republicans aren’t fit to
governbreathe
Missouri is not a victim, this is the exact experience they desire.
Roughly 60% of Missouri residents, during the 2024 election, voted for a traitor, felon, and fascist.
Aggressive ignorance is the new American pastime.
Absolutely bonkers to go “40% of the state voted against Trump, therefore everyone here wanted and deserves to have the measure they passed by 58% overturned.”
Also there are a lot of misinformed voters, who were told that things like P2025 are just jokes to “trigger the left”.
I also hate the excuse - and I just heard Spicer use it most recently - about how donvict/Republicans are “just” triggering the left.
That is their fucking excuse for so much, and even IF they were “only” triggering the left - why the fuck are supposed adults in government spending any time at all trying to trigger the left? How is that even in the least bit responsible?
Even the excuse, taken at face value, is complete and total bullshit.
Being a misinformed voter is a choice.
They are not poor victims.
They are lazy asshats that wanted to believe obvious but comfortable lies, over having to do 10 minutes of work and dealing with uncomfortable truths.
I’m sick and tired of this handwringing for the poor, willfully ignorant voters who couldnt be bothered to question a single thing, or listen to anything that challenges their preconceived notions.
Not everyone is a terminally online leftist like us. You have to sell politics to the average hillbilly, not the average leftist theory reader.
This is the exact kind of apologia and handwringing that I’m talking about.
Treating them like they’re some poor tribals on an isolated island whose only technology is fire and spear making who know not what they do.
They are not.
They are capable of asking questions. They actively choose not to, because they’d rather live in the comfort of the lie, then face the harsh reality of a truth.
Most of them have access to the sum total of human knowledge in their pockets (and in those slim minority of a minority of times when they cant, there are still other ways to access it all), which they refuse to use, because that would mean having to step out of their comfortable little sphere and face uncomfortable truths about the horrific things that they support and cant ever, in a thousand years, handle facing the harsh reality of.
Choosing to be ignorant is not an excuse, or makes them victims, or whatever other stupid bullshit people like you try to label them as.
Why do they want to trigger the left
40% of the state did not vote against fascism. Your response is disingenuous and maliciously misleading.
33% of the state did not even bother to show up and vote. Not voting is tantamount to approval of either option.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/Nov2024OfficialVoterTurnout.pdf
Ok but then 60% didn’t vote for fascism either, you’d have to compare it as 27% against, 33% don’t care, and 40% for.
You act like the voter turnout in missouri was less than most other states.
40% of people who voted didn’t vote for fascism. Using the votes of someone’s neighbors to determine whether or not they deserve healthcare is deranged.
We are making the same point in different ways. I agree with your premise and position.
There are consequences for our actions and our inactions. This is the theme I’m communicating with facts and data.
Truth and reality are often bitter pills to swallow.
There is not a way to justify ignoring human rights violations just because they live next to people who voted for Trump. What you’re describing is collective punishment, and it is unethical and inhumane.
It’s common sense and - here’s the catch -easily preventable.
If we’re counting people not voting as voting for fascism, then Trump has an overwhelming mandate to take over the nation.
Well, i mean - he did take over the nation, so - ?
He has the Presidency and is expanding its power. He doesn’t have complete control… yet.
My point is that you can’t count non-voters as being on either side. They contribute to the ultimate result by not reversing it, but you can’t count them as being for the winner’s positions.
Yes, you can. When you can’t get off your ass to vote, then you’re basically saying that you’re fine with whatever happens. In this case risking fascism, which apparently was good enough for them.
By not voting, you’re enabling whoever wins.
Then you’re arguing Mr. Trump has a 70% mandate for his second term (~245M eligible voters, only ~75M went for Harris; third party and non-vote means Trump support).
I guess you think we should give him more of a chance to enact their will.
Are these apathetics not still showing that he does? Are those non-voters of Missouri protesting or fighting back or are they just continuing on with whatever while willfully ignorant that their country has a fascist dictator who’s holding people without trial in inhumane conditions or sending them to be tortured and killed in el Salvador.
People still think votes matter? We lost that back in November.
