As I've written elsewhere, this kind of thinking will not stop with women. Republicans are likely to try anything they can to turn back the clock. This might be subtle, like informally allowing the revival of Redlining and "Gentlemen’s Agreements", or very blatant. Formal national identity cards could be the least of it, but would be a l…
As I've written elsewhere, this kind of thinking will not stop with women. Republicans are likely to try anything they can to turn back the clock. This might be subtle, like informally allowing the revival of Redlining and "Gentlemen’s Agreements", or very blatant. Formal national identity cards could be the least of it, but would be a logical first step in tracking everyone, everywhere, after which we can all get a file showing our degrees of loyalty. And I hope nobody says that it can't happen here.
Many years ago I saw the most extreme case of this kind of thinking. It was from a full professor in my department. He was a very insecure ex-Marine and turned to Nixon as his authority figure, excusing his crimes by saying, "Every president did that." One day he started mumbling about repealing the 13th Amendment. That was enough for me.
As I've written elsewhere, this kind of thinking will not stop with women. Republicans are likely to try anything they can to turn back the clock. This might be subtle, like informally allowing the revival of Redlining and "Gentlemen’s Agreements", or very blatant. Formal national identity cards could be the least of it, but would be a logical first step in tracking everyone, everywhere, after which we can all get a file showing our degrees of loyalty. And I hope nobody says that it can't happen here.
Many years ago I saw the most extreme case of this kind of thinking. It was from a full professor in my department. He was a very insecure ex-Marine and turned to Nixon as his authority figure, excusing his crimes by saying, "Every president did that." One day he started mumbling about repealing the 13th Amendment. That was enough for me.