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Hekate's JournalI had to mute all the commentary bcs it was so utterly predictable and negative...
Where I saw an incredibly strong woman holding her head high, a powerful intellect assessing ALL the factors that led to her defeat, a woman with great heart still beating -- they portrayed a loser whining about her loss and blaming others for it.
Where I saw the courage in saying "I will return to being a citizen activist... And a part of the Resistance," I honestly do not know what they saw.
I'm only glad I tuned in and saw the interview for myself, all the way through, and saw the truth instead of being fed the Big Lie.
First, the "Border Wall" is a metaphor for a 21st century Iron Curtain to keep us IN ...
...and the rest of the world out. Do we really want to be THAT nation? The nation so fearful and cowardly we cannot bear being presented with, much less confronted by, anyone the least bit unlike ourselves?
Monetarily, the cost will end up being beyond belief, but psychologically the cost will end up being far more than we can ever afford to pay and still call ourselves Americans.
Second, no one -- and I mean no one -- ever seems to talk about the ecological cost. Unlike the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Ghetto Wall, which were largely achieved by infilling city buildings, US borders with Mexico and Canada are mostly thousands of miles of open land -- forests, deserts, mountains, rivers -- all of which are the natural habitat, migration routes, and hunting territories of abundant species, some of them already endangered.
Third, and finally, Trump is insane and nothing he says can be taken for truth. The GOP Congress is his enabler as much as his family is, and altho many have been shaken by the Resistance in their home districts, they still are not to be trusted.
No. No deals. No quid pro quo.
BS reminds me of a houseguest who immediately moves your furniture around, criticizes the meals...
...complains about your relations with your spouse at every turn, calls your children spoiled brats, and never lifts a finger to so much as clear the table after eating the meal he bitchd about.
At some point the children are going to take their parents for a walk and ask when Uncle Bill is going to go back to his own home?
Flynn strikes me as a vengeful, angry man. It's what got him into trouble in the first place...
Hopefully he will continue in this vein as his life unravels, and start flailing at everybody he ever said hello to in the hallways of the Trump administration, most especially Trump, Bannon, Jared, Ivanka...
She and Jared are the pretty faces on this foul ugly corrupt Administration. Crown Princess ...
...and Prince Consort are what I call them because of their entirely unearned inherited privilege.
In reality, all of the remaining Royals of Europe reign over Constitutional monarchies -- so they and their extended families are raised from birth to have some sense of public duty and patriotism.
Not so for the scions of the Trump Business Empire. Even before the Mad King lost his marbles, it was run as an absolute monarchy answerable to no one. There is no patriotism -- banks and money flow are borderless. There is no public duty -- their only peers are other billionaires and oligarchs.
Thank you for pointing out the sheer offensiveness of Ivanka saying she and Daddy care about women and children. It would be so much better if they (especially she) stopped pretending to give a fuck.
Crying here. I hope he rang that Door Buzzard good and hard on the way through...
Thank you for letting us know, and please tell his family and friends how very much he will be missed by the DU community.
Ridiculous. Go back and read Bernie's very own words. Forget the campaign: the man has been...
...remarkably consistent throughout his life. You could completely excise the primary campaign from his record and have decades of quotes before then to work with -- and going on a year of quotes from after the Convention till now, and he sounds the same.
So what we are doing at DU in the Here and Now is talking about that record, especially since November 8, 2016.
It's Bernie himself who consistently identifies the working class as being composed of white men whose mining and manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Bernie.
Meanwhile, most women and minorities are in the category of workers who mostly never got into those formerly well paid jobs in the first place. They predominate in the service sector, where wages have always been crap. Are they not "working class"? Bernie never mentions them, except to insist minimum wage must be a certain dollar amount across the country, regardless of the cost of living in different regions.
Incidentally, those jobs are largely about to disappear as well, due to a variety of factors, from Amazon to Automation. Will Bernie then talk about the collapse of the retail market and untold thousands of mostly-women who will then be out of work? Or will they still not be working class?
I'd like to know his answer.
Seriously, talking about the "two minute hate" just doesn't cut it. It's not about you.
That's the central flaw in classic Marxist philosophy. "Identity" doesn't disappear...
Half the population will still be female, and will still need a full spectrum of health care specialized to our needs or women will die.
X% of the population will still be infants and children, and women will still overwhelmingly be responsible for their every need, from food to education to medical care -- and this will impact every day and every year of their paid working lives.
X% of the population will stll be "minorities" and visibly so, and they will still struggle for a full place in education, society, and the workplace even if the minimum wage is $15 an hour.
It goes on. And on.
Unlike totalitarian regimes, in THIS country if you do not want to have an abortion NO ONE...
...WILL FORCE YOU TO HAVE ONE.
The essence of the Democratic Party Platform is this: abortion, contraception, prenatal and postnatal care ARE ALL PART OF WOMEN'S NECESSARY HEALTH CARE CONTINUUM. The availability and affordability of all of these elements are a necessity in a democratic society. Some women undoubtedly want or need none of the above, but they must be available. Men's lack of a uterus is totally irrelevant to this particular discussion.
That is the agreement. There is no blame attached to holding a different point of view due to religious or other personal reasons, as long as you agree that others have the legal right to choose differently.
Or put another way: I choose to not marry another woman, but I don't have the right to forbid other women from choosing differently.
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