demulcents

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Saturday, September 4, 2021

The Texas assault on women's freedom

The Evangelical Christian fanatics have captured the Confederacy and Confederate dominated regions of other states. In Texas they have outlawed abortion after six weeks. Since a woman goes four weeks between periods she will have just two weeks to figure out the rest of her life in Texas. The worst part is that the Texas law offers some kind of bounty to citizen vigilantes to turn in any who aid in an abortion. They are actually legalizing and paying vigilantism.  To fanatics.  In America. 

Peel the onion just a bit and it is clear that the women who will be most affected will be poor women, mostly black and brown. So the Evangelical White Supremacists have found another way to harm non whites. Wealthy and middle class white women will find ways to travel for abortions. 

This law is disgusting. It is about white “Christians” dominating and dis-empowering women. The motivating energy of white supremacists seems to be very much around the idea of "putting people in their place".  In this case it is putting women in their place - in the kitchen and bedroom.  In the case of black and brown men and women it is putting them in their place as second class citizens who are kept from voting.  White supremacists see authoritarian white men as the top of the power pyramid and they dominate and control everyone underneath them.  

The truth is, of course, that the white domineering man has long ago fallen from his imagined throne, and women, gays, black-brown-yellow-red people have flowed into all aspects of American and world life.  But some keep trying to live in a John Wayne/Clint Eastwood world of Tough Real Men In Charge.  

Pathetic really.

Women are definitely noticing this Texan and Republican assault on their liberties and freedom of choosing the lives of their personal desires, and all but the most fervid evangelical women must understand that it is they themselves that are under attack.

I see this  horrible law shrinking the Republican Party. In the same way that extreme leftist antifa violence and extreme leftist thought and language control on campuses harm liberals, this preposterous attack on women’s freedoms should hurt conservatives. 

The Democratic Party's chances in 2022 and 2024 may have just taken a nice upturn.

Posted by demulcents at 11:05 AM
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