Women Will Loose All Rights Because the Economy...
I find this hysteria about women's rights, civil rights, voting rights, ect., to be rather over the top.
If you focus on the economy, on economic fairness and income inequality, it does not mean that suddenly women will not be able to vote, will have to stay home barefoot and pregnant, have to get men's permission to do things. That women will lose their rights and independence. It does not mean that suddenly abortion is illegal.
It does not mean that african americans will suddenly have to go to the back of the bus. Take literacy tests to vote.
It does not mean that the rights of various groups will suddenly disappear.
Afterall, all of these have been under assault for 20 years while the democratic party has put these groups at the forefront while ignoring the working class and middle class.
This is on par with the right believing Obama was a secret Muslim.
People keep believing and talking themselves into a kind of hysterical kind of thinking.
Believing that those who want the party to reconnect with its New Deal roots and reign in Wall Street and the rich, address income inequality is somehow anti democratic and anti american.
Believing that addressing the issues of the working class is somehow going to take away abortion rights and voting rights.
Believing that to point out where the party needs to fix itself and change, to move from the status quo of the party being too cozy with Wall Street while throwing unions under the bus is anti woman.
Or that Bernie Sanders is a secret republican out to destroy the democratic party.
When are people going to stop with the hysteria and take a deep breath. Get in touch with common sense. Realize that both sides want what is best for the party.
Just because we see things differently does not make the other side evil.
Let's just sit down, gather out thoughts and talk to one another in a mature manner. Discuss what it is that scares you, what it is that you hope for and like. Discuss why you are either a centrist or a progressive.
It is not being anti democratic party to say the party needs to do some introspection and to address the things that are hurting it.
Things will not resolve themselves and the party will not grow and move forward as long as we talk past each other and imagine all kinds of 'ghost stories' to scare ourselves with.
It does not help to rage about something yet, not be willing to listen to the other side.
It is so important for people stop demonizing.
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For the record I have never greeted someone with that smilie before today.
are right wing extremists and whose legislative history is the same extreme as Trent Franks and Ted Cruz.
If you sponsored a bill to BAN abortion, attack telemedicine, you're in the wrong party and you can go take a hike.
It's important for people to realize the real life effects such policies have and a smarmy guy saying, " but I won't do it anymore" is not believable, what's hurting this party is letting outsiders create division, but sacrificing women's rights and minority rights to chase after the nazi white males (or those who saw the Nazis and thought, hey, this isn't a deal breaker).
Yes, actually advocating policies that are sadistic, which lead to women's deaths and which deny them basic access to healthcare is evil. That is not debatable. Things will resolve themselves when the disruptive forces realize their crap isn't going to work here and that trying to silence women, POC, the LGBTQ community and all the doctors speaking out on why this is a stupid stance to take, and move on.
I'm really tired of women's voices being silenced because we call out the egregious nature of white men and their nasty things they do to us. Even that term hysteria is steeped in misogyny and silencing of women.
No. Hell no. We see what's going on and we will not be silent as people pat us on the head and tell us to play nice, that more important men's issues are being discussed and that we need to shut up. Hello NO.
newly registered voters from voting in the GA-06 special election runoff, have you? It's only their civil rights being attacked; nothing to get hysterical about.
that we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads and just let the menfolk do the hard political stuff.
(because people like the OP may take that seriously and nod their heads in agreement)
Such hysteria!
And...FORMAT!
Put some damn paragraphs in there.
jeez
