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Democrats may owe Harrison Butker a debt of gratitude after winning the 2024 election, due in part to his comments.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/05/biden-democrats-may-owe-harrison-butker.htmlRepublicans might want to give some thought to how women might respond to Harrison Butker's remarks as commencement speaker at Kansas' Benedictine College before using them in campaign ads. Oops, too late.
Butker's statements have already been evaluated as a huge step backward for women. One of the things that hard line conservatives have extreme difficulty understanding, and then accepting, is that we live in constitutionally-guaranteed freedom, and that people can choose to live their life exactly as they want to live it. It seems like conservatives take it personally when the choices they have made for their life are not the same ones they've made. It's like they require others to choose to live the same way, and accept the same values in order for them to validate their own feelings and choices.
The Supreme Court has already done Democrats a huge favor by overturning Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decisions. The votes that has gathered for Democrats, and the elections it has won for them, are getting into the uncountable territory. Butker's statements not only aren't going to provide a surge of conservative women voters oppressed by their current level of freedom and prosperity, but they are going to serve to strengthen the convictions of those on the left who believe women are equal to men and should have equal opportunity. I believe it will help sharpen the focus on exactly why the far right and its social agenda has no business getting candidates elected to office.
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Democrats may owe Harrison Butker a debt of gratitude after winning the 2024 election, due in part to his comments. (Original Post)
lees1975
May 22
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Blue Owl
(51,169 posts)1. Let these big-mouthed fools chain their anchors to the sinking GOP
The quicker they sink and drown, the better....
mahatmakanejeeves
(58,267 posts)2. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. And good morning. NT
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,263 posts)3. Republicans give any thought to how women might respond to anything?
unblock
(52,872 posts)4. This will be forgotten but November. But then, there will be others....