Republican sexual dysfunction
The GOP’s war on contraception, abortion, women, and LGBTs is really all about sexual intercourse. All flavors of Republicans, from teabaggers, to fundamentalists, to so-called moderates have a really big problem with the idea of sex. Many of them seem to believe that people should be punished for having unmarried sex. And many believe that any sex other than the missionary position is strictly taboo and only practiced by “perverts.” Today’s Republicans are Puritans whom the journalist H.L. Mencken described as those with “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.” They long for the 1950s when (supposedly) everyone was a virgin until they got married.
Now back here in the real world, we know that most Republicans don’t really give a rat’s ass about who’s in bed with whom. And as has so often been reported in the news, they themselves are pretty busy screwing anything that moves. But it makes for a great political issue to feed to the yahoos, (many of whom are also hypocrites on the issue).
But here’s the thing. Their political issue causes real damage to real human beings. (This can be said about virtually every political position held by today’s GOP.) What if they had the power to pass their ideology into laws? Actually some states had anti-sodomy laws, some of which are still on the books today. Imagine a world in which the party who wants to “get the government off our backs” is busy enforcing what you can and can’t do with someone else.
Virtually every dictatorship that has ever existed has had stringent laws regarding sex among the peasants. In many countries today, you can be put to death for doing the "wrong" thing with the "wrong" person. But the rulers, of course, are entitled to their vast pleasure palaces. That’s a world only a Republican could love. And it’s the world they have planned for us if they ever get full power.
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