The SCOTUS decision to castrate the Environmental Protection Agency tells us two things. First, that the Row vs Wade decision had nothing to do at all with any lofty notions of the “sanctity of human life”, but was instead a cynical piece of pandering to unhinged theocrats and Christofascist moon pies, in order to distract them from subjecting a now corrupt and illegitimate institution to scrutiny, with respect to its blatant siding with corporate profit interests.
Indeed, the castration of the EPA is as blatant a signal as one could wish for, to the effect that SCOTUS now regards corporate profits as counting for more than human life or the habitability of the planet. Blatant to the point of warranting an investigation into whether or not the “conservative” judges were taking kickbacks from fossil fuel companies in order to push through this measure.
The pretence of a gimlet-eyed narrow legal focus is precisely that in the light of this decision - a pretence. It’s transparently obvious where the vector of intent is now pointing, namely, to the handing of wank-totem baubles violating the Establishment Clause to the bedsheet wearers, as a smokescreen behind which to destroy human rights, while putting in place measures to make government the bought and sold whore of corporate interests.
Of course, the wank fantasists among the fundageliKKKals will still think they’re going to fire up their Dark Age inquisitional theocracy, and start burning the “libtards” and “queers” at the stake. But they’re going to be rudely awakened when instead, what they end up with is something more akin to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, with a heavy leavening of Logan’s Run and The Hunger Games thrown in.
Indeed, there’ll be a departure from The Handmaid’s Tale in this respect - televangelists and other “religious figures” will be subject to the same corporate capture, and allowed to enjoy spending their tithes on McMansions and luxury SUVs only as long as they provide the illusion of a theocracy, while having their puppet strings pulled by accountants and lawyers serving the interests of the big business money god.
It’ll look like Gilead, but the governing religion will be the First Church of Christ, Pinstripe.
That is, of course, if the planet remains habitable long enough for this to be pulled off. This itself could be in doubt. June 29th, 2022, saw a weather station at Mehamn, Norway, record a daytime temperature of 30.8°C (that’s 87.4°F). Bear in mind this weather station is inside the Arctic Circle, at latitude 71°N.
If those temperature figures keep climbing in this manner, the planet will cease to be inhabitable by humans before the fossil fuel CEOs have time to place orders for new Bond villain penis-extension yachts, let alone take delivery thereof.
Trouble is, when these people find out too late that no amount of money will buy them escape from the shit they’ve caused, they’ll take the rest of the human race with them.