Unite Against the War on Women (updated)
Why have the Conservatives launched a war on women this year? I won’t bother to list to you all of the recent legislative actions the states and US Congress have taken that target the rights and interests of women, some of which we thought were long decided matters in our political culture. Suffice to say that much of the right wing has seem determined to pursue an anti-female agenda that goes beyond any quasi-religious pro-life zealotry can explain.
See, I think the “conservative” side of our current political spectrum is not accurately named. “Conservative” as opposed to “progressive” means that that side is interested in conserving the status quo, keeping things the same as they are now. That’s wrong. Today’s conservatives are more accurately labeled “reactionaries“. See, reactionaries want to turn back the clock. Reactionaries want to roll back the tide of progress in human rights, religious freedoms and formal compassionate social policies that have been an unstoppable trend in western society for 300 years.
Paralleled by the gains earned by ethnic minorities, the rights and status of women have undeniable progressed in the last 120 years… Perhaps more than any other group… Consequently, as your advances have been so far reaching, perhaps it’s why the REACTIONARY elements of our political spectrum are willing and wanting to attack.
To call what they’re doing as an overreach is an understatement. Even conservative women use birth control. “Welfare moms” were a convenient and easy target for attack in the 90’s, but fundamentally, the Republicans are skating on thin ice by trying to pay for tax cuts to the rich by stripping programs that help the poorest women with reproductive health and food for their children.
The REACTIONARIES want to turn back the advances of our society 120 years. Although this is a really bad strategy on their part in the short term, and so as a progressive, I’m pleased on one level, on the larger level, I’m disturbed at where the boundaries of the debate are being laid.
We can’t propose single-payer healthcare because its too radical, but conservatives can propose turning Medicare into a voucher system and allowing employers to deny coverage for birth control?
If American politics were a marketplace and we were haggling over a price of produce, the Republicans are asking to pay 25 cents to buy a dozen avocados. Or they’re asking $100 to sell them. Whichever. Although this is far less of a case than in previous times, politics is about negotiation. Each side comes to a negotiation from a starting point. The Reactionary starting point has gotten to be SO FAR way over to one side, that I worry about where the reconciliation point is going to end up.
Maybe we progressives should start proposing anarcho-syndicalist solutions to our nation’s ills; not because we believe in them, but to set a starting point that matches the anachronism of the reactionaries’ 19th Century positions…
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!! DESTROY CAPITALISM IN THE NAME OF PROLETARIOT!
(Short of that, we might accept universal health coverage).
Now, I talk about the War on Women in the context of a video I made today. An acquaintance of mine, well, maybe after today, I can call her a friend, is an active member of various Occupy and other progressive movements. She called out on her Facebook page for anyone out there whose a videographer and is an owner of a truck or van for help. I happen to be both. I ended up being the videographer for today’s rally Against the War on Women… One of dozens of such rallies that were held nationwide today.
UPDATED VIDEO!!!
(I found some additional footage “hiding” in another directory of my camera… I also killed the cheesy background music)
Socialist !!!!!
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Yesterday I was reading that a Bill has passed in the House and Senate of Tennessee to allow women who have MISCARRIAGES to be charged with murder.
They didn’t even do that during the Dark Ages in Europe!
WoW.
Great points, Joko.
Earlier today I read an NYT article about the rights of women in Afghanistan – they are roughly where christian beliefs had us in prior centuries. Women there are beaten for attempting self-determination, or even reading poetry. They are treated so badly that some of them even self-immolate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/why-afghan-women-risk-death-to-write-poetry.html
Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press
http://www.politicususa.com/rachel-maddow-war-on-women.html
Here there’s no such welfare,no natality and the latest legislative tricks include phychological testing and nazi guilt-enhancing, mind-fucking preaching programs to females who want to carry out abortions .Just because statistically the number of aborted babies in the past 50 years is bigger than the number of population and they’re afraid that in other 50 years the only babies will be gypsies, the educational system will collapse,no employees will work to cover for retirement retirement funds..and so on.
(it’s been on the news)
On the other hand ,you’d have to be secluded in the woods to believe the news 100% ;everywhere I go -it’s full of babies.Parks,restaurants, streets, public transport..it’s babies,babies,babies..So I tend not to worry,not to see any offense and keep a private pension for grim days. Out of all opposite perspectives,the most important’s your own.
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Seeing that sign which reads “Pro-Life, Pro-War, Stop the Hypocrisy,” I just felt the need to chime in with respect to the fact that I am decidedly pro-Life & anti-war, ergo hypocrisy is not an issue for me. And the last time I checked, both major political parties in the USA were pro-war parties, not just the Republicans.
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How sickening……as a woman, I am shocked and outraged by their efforts. Republican government have been forcing horrible policies of killing rights, instigating violence and murder to the other opposition groups and meanwhile their supporters hoping to kick Obama from white house by making him look like the cause of all this. The GOP of “NO” are the ones making the recovery of our economy drag on. Just how stupid do they think everyone is. And if anyone doesn’t see this then you know that they are really ignorant or racist or even a evil bigot.
This patriarchal, condescending attitude towards women is now being recognized because of all the thousands of pieces of legislation aimed at our reproductive system. WTH….the GOP say that these attacks are all in our feeble minds, so we shouldn’t worry our pretty little heads about it, it’s the most INSULTING thing I have encountered in quite sometime. The way they use Fox News to claim its a made up lie to keep the support of their women voters. They think their Republican women voters are so naive that the GOP have made a separate website just for Republican Women to look like they do support women rights.
Now Joko you made a good point….I do believe the main reason the attack on women, has to clearly be a desperate move to save their ELITE 1% from raise in taxes… who financially support their party. That’s why the organized strategically placing of their policies in mainly Republicans/Cons/TP ran states.
Here PROOF of “War on Women”…..there is over hundreds of pieces of legislation design to curtail women’s rights…here are a few:
* Have tried to abolish choice.
* Their spoke persons like Rush have trivialized their issues.
* Have for decades and continue to try to govern women reproductive rights.
* Want to make contraceptives hard if not impossible to get.
* Have infiltrated a organization meant to find a cure for breast cancer and used its fund to go
against women issues.
* Have tried to shut down Planned Parenhood which offers inexpensive health care to women. Which some Republican governed states are successfully accomplishing.
* Their elected leaders like congressmen Blunt who has tried to make this discrimination into law.
* Their elected leaders at state level have tried passing laws like making being a gay or non christian, or single parent a crime. Even what political views you have.
* Their elected leaders in congress have tried to redefine “RAPE” so as not to be so criminal, but instead claimed the “morning after pill” being a criminal act of murder.
* Now the Republican ran states like “Union killer” Gov. Scott Walker quietly repealing Obama’s “Equal Pay Law”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/scott-walker-wisconsin-equal-pay-law_n_1407329.html
* Cons like Gov.Tom Corbett, Sen.Clay Scofield, Sen. Chuck Winder, Gov.Rick perry, Gov.Bob McDonnell, Illinois House Agriculture Committee, Kentucky State Senate, North Carolina, Pennsylvania forces women to have intrusive trans-vaginal ultrasound.
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….and on and on…to a total to over 1,100 pieces of legislation
If thats not an attack on women, what effin is?
Man these b@st@rd’s have it coming NOW!
Absolutely revolting.
GOP is filled with dictators, thieves, liars and murderers.
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They are in know way Conservative.
When I am confronted by a GOP supporter, I feel like the only way to communicate with them is by cave drawings!
SERIOUSLY!
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I genuinely believe Obama’s pass 4 years in office may not have been perfect but damn sure is a big improvement, and when he is reelected in November 2012 it will get even better “NUFF SAID”!
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