All these systematic attacks on women's rights begs the question, what is it exactly that the far right has so against women that they are waging a war to curtail their power and influence in our society? Well, you can just chalk it up to an attempt to maintain male dominance. After all, if men are going to dominate in our society, certa…
All these systematic attacks on women's rights begs the question, what is it exactly that the far right has so against women that they are waging a war to curtail their power and influence in our society? Well, you can just chalk it up to an attempt to maintain male dominance. After all, if men are going to dominate in our society, certainly women are going to have to accept a back seat. But I think it goes farther and much deeper than that. Not universally, of course, but for the most part, womanhood has
had a civilizing influence on society. Being put in the role of bearing and rearing children, their perspective tends to lean them towards efforts towards strengthening families, education, opportunities for self-development and, of course, not sending their children off to war, etc. This perspective is reflected in the fact that they tend to vote Democratic. Given our current corporate overloads' current struggle to maintain power and control in the face of a level of income inequality that is causing massive social dysfunction and suffering and threatening economic collapse, they simply need to keep the influence of women under control and what better way to do it than by burdening them with children they cannot care for adequately and by shutting off avenues through which they can prosper. And, of course, many on the far right are advocating for actually repealing women's right to vote. That ought to keep the %^&#'s subdued!
I wonder about this a lot. Male supremacy -- specifically *white* male supremacy -- is certainly at the heart of it, and Christian fundamentalism clearly plays a role, but last I looked, the U.S. was at least an aspirational democracy and women make up more than half the electorate. Close to 60% of white women did vote for Trump twice, but the outcomes of recent abortion referendums, not to mention the 2022 midterms, suggest that overt misogyny is not a winning strategy.
I do suspect it has to do with the "corporate overlords" and the non-corporate billionaires and mega-multimillionaires who, after all, tend to have little direct contact with actual working people (except maybe their nannies and landscapers and household staff). There are far too few of them to win an election at any level, but since the late 1960s they've been extremely clever at harnessing the rage and angst of white working people and religious conservatives, both Catholic and Protestant. Not only has this won them elections, it's persuaded the Democratic Party to move ever rightward, ever further from the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Great Society. (Thanks to the horrors of the Trump and post-Trump years, more and more Democrats are finally putting the brakes on the rightward slide.)
What I'm thinking -- and it's such a scary thought that I can't hold it in my mind for very long -- is that Project 2025 is planning for, and working toward, a time when they can do away with democracy, aspirational or otherwise, once and for all. Which would explain why they're not more concerned about alienating women, especially younger women, especially women of color (who have seen through them from the get-go). They've gotten away with it in so many red states, so, their thinking goes, now it's time to go for the whole country.
Susanna I mentioned the absurdity of the likes of Beobert, Green and 60% of the women who voted for Trump and she said Stockholm Syndrome. These women, like the Arab women who wear the Abaya, chador, Niqab and Burga in stifling heat, are raised that way, and they believe that their bread is buttered by supporting and maintaining the status quo. And when they rebel, as did those brave young women in Iran, they are arrested, tortured, beat to death and hung from a crane.
The authors of Project 25 are confident in their aspirations, because they don't plan for a fair, peaceful election. They are already at work suppressing the votes of black and brown people. Bribery, misleading voter info., fear mongering are just a few methods up their sleeve. Money equals power and they plan to use it, as they have before. Look what they've already accomplished. SC judges that are bought and paid for, Eileen Cannon, appointed by tRump, has used every trick in her judicial book to delay Jack Smith's document's trial, many southern state legislatures are controlled by republicans, they have a majority in the House. Leonard Leo, Federalist society, is laughing all the way to the bank. Evangelicals want to see the End of Times, but before that happens they plan to dismantle our democracy and the freedoms we all enjoy. What more do you need to see and understand their intentions? Democrats, according to Hopium Chronicles, are beginning to wake up.
Perhaps, it's naive on my part to do what I suggested on a number of newsletters. We need to get the attention of the electorate. Getting their eyes and ears to pay attention to what's at stake in this upcoming election will make the difference between a democracy vs. a dictatorship. My suggestion has been a million man march in D.C. that promotes our vision for America. Leaders like Adam Schiff, Thom Hartmann, Steve Schmidt, Jamie Raskin, Jim McGovern, General Patraeus, Gavin Newsom, and entertainers like Taylor Swift, Barbara Streisand, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel are just a few that can move an audience and lead this march for freedom.. Time is running out!
Here is where I think you are nailing a core issue: "...maintain power and control in the face of a level of income inequality that is causing massive social dysfunction and suffering and threatening economic collapse..." I don't remember when I haven't wondered about the tipping point into revolution. The overlords never seem to have the slightest concept of the desirability of stability from supporting the serfs at some level of habitability and survival. They "always," as in down through known history of revolutions, seem to pursue the last eke of wherewithal. There seems to be an essential failing in human nature that allows a divorce in consciousness of interconnection with the actual providers. The oligarchs don't know when to stop; never have yet.
Well observed, I think, Mmerose. I think an economic system tends to create and reinforce itself. In the case of our current, unbridled, unmanaged form of capitalism, competitive forces require that business entities must constantly outpace their competitors. If asked why they are cutting wages, contaminating the environment with waste, cutting health and safety controls, and moving out of the United States to avoid our laws, they say, "I have to in order to compete because the other guy is doing it." And wealth and power are addictive; you never get enough to feel insulated. In this system, wealth automatically accrues to the top because, as there are winner and losers, the winners gain advantage, and the process is accelerated. I think we need to come to a full awareness that capitalism (industrialized, free enterprise) needs maintenance by a democratic government in order to equitably distribute the wealth, benefit the common good, and keep it free..
Shea it is not what they have against women, It is about disempowering the fragile male ego.
A disability that balanced, self assured, liberal males don't have. These poor saps on the right wing, can only feel like men, when women are disempowered and submissive.
You can take a clue from our four legged relatives. Males who lose out on the mating rut, experience low T, a drop in testosterone, biologists call them bachelors. They lose their sex drive, are not able to erect and copulate.
In the animal world, sexual intercourse has all of the hallmarks of force, that s what we call rape. Females are made receptive by an influx of hormones and they go into estrus (heat),, human females are endowed with a clitoris, a g spot and an orgasm, to make them not only receptive but desirous.
Males that can't dominate a female, find it difficult to erect and thus penetrate, PhRMA has a pill for that Viagra, it is a psychological emotional condition remedied by the miracle of chemistry.
The anti abortion movement is of the same origin, it is a rejection of the male and the male seed, the oh so precious seed that creates a mini me. It places the woman in charge of creation, not the man, and in the Christian mind an affront to their god, who made man and said that he had dominion over everything including the female.
Religion, life, al of it is just an excuse, for public relations purpose, and it has worked. Liberals have been calling Prolifers hypocrites, and they know it and laugh up their sleeves, because it is not and never has been about life,or the life of "unborn babies" except maybe the low IQ emotional ninnies, who really believe the propaganda.
It is all about male supremacy, which we call by another name. misogyny, They really don't hate women, they simply want to dominate and control them, as it is a hormonal driven biological imperative and too many homo sapiens sapiens are still not sufficiently evolved and let their hormones and basic drives rule them.
All these systematic attacks on women's rights begs the question, what is it exactly that the far right has so against women that they are waging a war to curtail their power and influence in our society? Well, you can just chalk it up to an attempt to maintain male dominance. After all, if men are going to dominate in our society, certainly women are going to have to accept a back seat. But I think it goes farther and much deeper than that. Not universally, of course, but for the most part, womanhood has
had a civilizing influence on society. Being put in the role of bearing and rearing children, their perspective tends to lean them towards efforts towards strengthening families, education, opportunities for self-development and, of course, not sending their children off to war, etc. This perspective is reflected in the fact that they tend to vote Democratic. Given our current corporate overloads' current struggle to maintain power and control in the face of a level of income inequality that is causing massive social dysfunction and suffering and threatening economic collapse, they simply need to keep the influence of women under control and what better way to do it than by burdening them with children they cannot care for adequately and by shutting off avenues through which they can prosper. And, of course, many on the far right are advocating for actually repealing women's right to vote. That ought to keep the %^&#'s subdued!
I wonder about this a lot. Male supremacy -- specifically *white* male supremacy -- is certainly at the heart of it, and Christian fundamentalism clearly plays a role, but last I looked, the U.S. was at least an aspirational democracy and women make up more than half the electorate. Close to 60% of white women did vote for Trump twice, but the outcomes of recent abortion referendums, not to mention the 2022 midterms, suggest that overt misogyny is not a winning strategy.
I do suspect it has to do with the "corporate overlords" and the non-corporate billionaires and mega-multimillionaires who, after all, tend to have little direct contact with actual working people (except maybe their nannies and landscapers and household staff). There are far too few of them to win an election at any level, but since the late 1960s they've been extremely clever at harnessing the rage and angst of white working people and religious conservatives, both Catholic and Protestant. Not only has this won them elections, it's persuaded the Democratic Party to move ever rightward, ever further from the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Great Society. (Thanks to the horrors of the Trump and post-Trump years, more and more Democrats are finally putting the brakes on the rightward slide.)
What I'm thinking -- and it's such a scary thought that I can't hold it in my mind for very long -- is that Project 2025 is planning for, and working toward, a time when they can do away with democracy, aspirational or otherwise, once and for all. Which would explain why they're not more concerned about alienating women, especially younger women, especially women of color (who have seen through them from the get-go). They've gotten away with it in so many red states, so, their thinking goes, now it's time to go for the whole country.
Susanna I mentioned the absurdity of the likes of Beobert, Green and 60% of the women who voted for Trump and she said Stockholm Syndrome. These women, like the Arab women who wear the Abaya, chador, Niqab and Burga in stifling heat, are raised that way, and they believe that their bread is buttered by supporting and maintaining the status quo. And when they rebel, as did those brave young women in Iran, they are arrested, tortured, beat to death and hung from a crane.
The authors of Project 25 are confident in their aspirations, because they don't plan for a fair, peaceful election. They are already at work suppressing the votes of black and brown people. Bribery, misleading voter info., fear mongering are just a few methods up their sleeve. Money equals power and they plan to use it, as they have before. Look what they've already accomplished. SC judges that are bought and paid for, Eileen Cannon, appointed by tRump, has used every trick in her judicial book to delay Jack Smith's document's trial, many southern state legislatures are controlled by republicans, they have a majority in the House. Leonard Leo, Federalist society, is laughing all the way to the bank. Evangelicals want to see the End of Times, but before that happens they plan to dismantle our democracy and the freedoms we all enjoy. What more do you need to see and understand their intentions? Democrats, according to Hopium Chronicles, are beginning to wake up.
Perhaps, it's naive on my part to do what I suggested on a number of newsletters. We need to get the attention of the electorate. Getting their eyes and ears to pay attention to what's at stake in this upcoming election will make the difference between a democracy vs. a dictatorship. My suggestion has been a million man march in D.C. that promotes our vision for America. Leaders like Adam Schiff, Thom Hartmann, Steve Schmidt, Jamie Raskin, Jim McGovern, General Patraeus, Gavin Newsom, and entertainers like Taylor Swift, Barbara Streisand, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel are just a few that can move an audience and lead this march for freedom.. Time is running out!
How about a campaign slogan for dems: Moms vs. CEOs
Love it. I'll position it next to the one I have that says: "How do you tell when
Trump is lying? His lips are moving.
Here is where I think you are nailing a core issue: "...maintain power and control in the face of a level of income inequality that is causing massive social dysfunction and suffering and threatening economic collapse..." I don't remember when I haven't wondered about the tipping point into revolution. The overlords never seem to have the slightest concept of the desirability of stability from supporting the serfs at some level of habitability and survival. They "always," as in down through known history of revolutions, seem to pursue the last eke of wherewithal. There seems to be an essential failing in human nature that allows a divorce in consciousness of interconnection with the actual providers. The oligarchs don't know when to stop; never have yet.
Well observed, I think, Mmerose. I think an economic system tends to create and reinforce itself. In the case of our current, unbridled, unmanaged form of capitalism, competitive forces require that business entities must constantly outpace their competitors. If asked why they are cutting wages, contaminating the environment with waste, cutting health and safety controls, and moving out of the United States to avoid our laws, they say, "I have to in order to compete because the other guy is doing it." And wealth and power are addictive; you never get enough to feel insulated. In this system, wealth automatically accrues to the top because, as there are winner and losers, the winners gain advantage, and the process is accelerated. I think we need to come to a full awareness that capitalism (industrialized, free enterprise) needs maintenance by a democratic government in order to equitably distribute the wealth, benefit the common good, and keep it free..
Drat! No likes from the likes of me, so here are a potload!
Shea it is not what they have against women, It is about disempowering the fragile male ego.
A disability that balanced, self assured, liberal males don't have. These poor saps on the right wing, can only feel like men, when women are disempowered and submissive.
You can take a clue from our four legged relatives. Males who lose out on the mating rut, experience low T, a drop in testosterone, biologists call them bachelors. They lose their sex drive, are not able to erect and copulate.
In the animal world, sexual intercourse has all of the hallmarks of force, that s what we call rape. Females are made receptive by an influx of hormones and they go into estrus (heat),, human females are endowed with a clitoris, a g spot and an orgasm, to make them not only receptive but desirous.
Males that can't dominate a female, find it difficult to erect and thus penetrate, PhRMA has a pill for that Viagra, it is a psychological emotional condition remedied by the miracle of chemistry.
The anti abortion movement is of the same origin, it is a rejection of the male and the male seed, the oh so precious seed that creates a mini me. It places the woman in charge of creation, not the man, and in the Christian mind an affront to their god, who made man and said that he had dominion over everything including the female.
Religion, life, al of it is just an excuse, for public relations purpose, and it has worked. Liberals have been calling Prolifers hypocrites, and they know it and laugh up their sleeves, because it is not and never has been about life,or the life of "unborn babies" except maybe the low IQ emotional ninnies, who really believe the propaganda.
It is all about male supremacy, which we call by another name. misogyny, They really don't hate women, they simply want to dominate and control them, as it is a hormonal driven biological imperative and too many homo sapiens sapiens are still not sufficiently evolved and let their hormones and basic drives rule them.
All of the above.
Yeah, really, huh?