Republicans and conservatives are fond of the shibboleth that "America is a republic, not a democracy." Boiled down to its essence, the phrase is a justification for awarding a strong voice in government to minority political views.
We are now at a stage where the minority is taking over. Worse, it's an extremist minority that has exploited imperfections in our system of government to impose retrograde policies on the rest of the country.
No better example exists than the string of far-right decisions handed down recently by the U.S. Supreme Court, most prominently in its 6-3 decision overturning the 50-year precedent protecting women's reproductive health rights via the 1974 decision in Roe vs. Wade.
