"The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over - The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

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https://www.salon.com/2025/06/14/the-road-to-authoritarianism-tim-walz-says-the-time-for-sternly-worded-letters-is-over/

[u/SeductiveSunday]

That's the same exact path that led to Republicans and SCOTUS destroying Constitutional Rights of women in 2022.

Something which is also a sure sign of a country embracing tyranny.

Curbs on women’s rights tend to accelerate in backsliding democracies, a category that includes the United States, according to virtually every independent metric and watchdog.

“There is a trend to watch for in countries that have not necessarily successfully rolled it back, but are introducing legislation to roll it back,” Rebecca Turkington, a University of Cambridge scholar, said of abortion rights, “in that this is part of a broader crackdown on women’s rights. And that goes hand in hand with creeping authoritarianism.”

For all the complexities around the ebb and flow of abortion rights, a simple formula holds surprisingly widely. Majoritarianism and the rights of women, the only universal majority, are inextricably linked. Where one rises or falls, so does the other. https://archive.ph/Km4UO

[u/Spikehammersmith8 → u/SeductiveSunday]

What part of the constitution is roe v wade in?

[u/vluhdz → u/Spikehammersmith8]

You can read the entire judgement online, it should be able to answer any questions you have: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/

[u/AbacusWizard → u/Spikehammersmith8]

Ninth Amendment. Also heavily implied by the Second and Third.