> [WS:] Furthermore, "voting" in America is used almost exclusively to
> mobilize the
> right wing reaction, and almost never to pass a progressive change. Almost
> all that is progressive in this country, from the New Deal, to Civil
> Rights,
> to access to reproductive services and to rights to same sex couples
> resulted either from the progressive judiciary or progressive
> administration
> curbing democratically enacted Jim Crow laws / restrictions and opposed by
> democratic congress.
Jim Crow wasn't the result of a democratic process. Blacks were systematically disenfranchised and excluded from the process. Throughout most of its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary institution; the achievements of the Civil Rights era are anomalous.