This would be massively counterproductive.

Be patient, be peaceful. Work for change. Do not give up. There are no shortcuts. Hurting yourself or others is not the way to achieve change.

First of all, it was the 14th Amendment, and the Voting Rights Act, not the 15th Amendment.

Second of all, they did not void the Voting Rights Act. They merely pointed out that when Congress renewed the act in 2006, they never bothered to update the data, and were still using data from the 1960's. The Court left the most important parts of the Act in place. It is still illegal to deny people the right to vote on racial grounds. What the Court did was toss out section 4, which provides the formula for enforcement of section 5. Section 5 is the part about states and counties having to get pre-clearance for changes. Section 2 allows voters and groups representing them to go to court to fix problems after they're implemented, so the law isn't totally dead. On the law, though, which is all they deal with, the Court is right. Section 4 was wrong the way it was and Congress has to fix it. As we all know, though, Congress is seriously broken right now, and we can all be a bit dubious that they'll fix anything, but that doesn't make the Court's decision wrong.

Don't read so much into it. It is not within the Court's power to fix Congress. We'll be doing that ourselves next year when we go and vote. So, don't be so ready to off yourself. Go get registered to vote, so you can be part of the remediation process, and get your like-minded friends registered, too. Votes, not bullets.

I think that you are probably correct in your views. I probably worked for civil rights causes and anti-war causes for longer than you've been alive.

At some point I realized that to be elected in this country to anything more elevated than dogcatcher you have to sell your soul to the highest bidder. Virtually all the politicians have been bought and paid for. To believe otherwise is simply self delusion. Certain politicians have caused some change for the better, if only to appear to actually be progressive, which of course they are not. Otherwise, not much has changed. We're fighting in the umpteenth undeclared war since world war two, and the supreme court is busy rolling back the gains of the last 50 years

In the 65 years of my life, I have seen much, and eventually gave up activism and organizing for trying to make changes on a one to one basis. I patiently explain what I believe to people who ask, without challenging their beliefs . Imagine, if you will, what it would mean to get to know a transphobe, appreciating what good qualities they do posses. Then when they learn that you are reasonable and honorable person, reveal, carefully, that your are a transgender person. There will be a reaction, but eventually they will come to realize that you are not the spawn of satan, and they might have to change some of their views, slowly.

In my experience, this is how real change happens! It's not fast and it's not certain, but it does work, Before you deny the possibilities, let me tell you that I have used such techniques to reconcile a Klan member with the idea that a left winger can be a reasonable person, and worth befriending. Small changes you say, but that Klan member is less likely to vote for a politician who vilifies such people.

Yes the pace of change is glacial, but the change is less likely to be reversed, because that Klan member will tell his buddies that left wingers aren't so bad, and he will raise his kids to be more tolerant. I remember how hard it was to be young, and impatient with all the people that couldn't see how right my cause was. I remember thinking that assassinating a politician or two might be a reasonable way to "spend" my life. It didn't take long to realize that there are always more of them to take their place.

I can only tell you that change takes time. Your tolerance for the ills of the world might have to expand, for your own good and self-preservation. It would be a wonderful thing to eventually be the woman that you are inside. It might be a good idea to move to a State that allows you to change your birth certificate. One of the few things that I have learned in this life is that it is essential to pick your fights, because you can't win them all, and saving your energy for the really important ones is essential if you are to survive.

My heart goes out to you!

Liz