Which side is pushing for funding states and cities, keeping front-liners getting paychecks, trying to protect our food chain (hello, employees at meat packing plants!!!), keeping the little guy #1 on the priority list, and not big wealthy corporations or institutions with glittering super-fatted endowments, and the haves and already-have-mores?
And which side thinks only of tax cuts and more tax cuts - those tax cuts CUTTING INTO state and local budgets and the federal supplements they depend upon. "Cut taxes" means cut financial support that those federal-dollars-not-coming-in-anymore would have funded, but aren't there anymore. Hey Grover Norquist! What happens when you succeed in cutting the federal government so much that it's small enough to "drown in a bathtub" - and your house catches on fire but there's no longer enough people working at the local fire station anymore - because everybody else's jobs there got cut? Howdya like THAT, you stupid selfish cheapskate!
That side hates the government until disaster strikes and they realize they need the assistance, people-power, and other big-ticket proposals and programs that the government provides. That they NEED. But their rationalization might be - THEY need it. But they don't want to have to pay to cover if YOU need it.
By now, I think the whole stinking idea of "pro-life" needs to be challenged. Those who claim they are "pro-life" are mostly CONservative men, mostly white, and for them deep-down I suspect it's about domination of women. Deep-down I think there's this arrogance that STILL lurks just beneath the surface in that particular demographic - that women have invaded their space. Their "brotherhood of the workplace." Women in our jobs? Who invited them anyway? Since when are they equal? I think that attitude still lurks. They'll say they're "liberated" and they're plenty okay working with women. But old attitudes die hard. Especially if you're a guy who considers himself on-the-way-up or well qualified and experienced for a promotion - and it's given to a woman instead.
So maybe the answer is - to get more of the male mindset in dominant positions of power, right? If they loudly profess their ardor for the "pro-life" movement, they need to start getting the message that this position is all-or-nothing. Absolute. Pro-life PERIOD. No wiggle room. No compromises. You MUST have that baby! No exceptions (unless you're rich and well-connected, of course). You're not allowed to abort! Under ANY circumstances! Well, okay then. That means no exceptions for old people who "have a duty to die anyway, so our economy can get better." Uh-uh! NOPE! That's a BIG FAT NO!
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