Of course that's getting harder all the time with the GOP shutting down voting as hard as they can.
Yes. They are.
But... what I don't think they realize is that they're going so fucking far, outright taking away birth control and bodily autonomy over *corpses* and equal pay that I don't think they realize just how many relatively well-off fairly privileged people are going to take the privilege of marching down and voting their asses out. I know Republican women who are basically saying "WTF? NO."
Because this has gone way beyond the "unborn babies" and "welfare queens" and all the other ways that middle-class white women could say "well, this will never happen to me." It's outright telling these women - women who are already on the voting rolls, who felt their rights were unshakeable, that they have neither privilege nor rights.
I do argue about them being "all alike." In some ways, yes. The ones in power want to stay there, and they'll lie about their rivals. But when push comes to shove, there's only one party that has consistently ruled in the manner I think fit for this country's people and one party that consistently doesn't.
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Date: 2012-04-10 01:46 am (UTC)Yes. They are.
But... what I don't think they realize is that they're going so fucking far, outright taking away birth control and bodily autonomy over *corpses* and equal pay that I don't think they realize just how many relatively well-off fairly privileged people are going to take the privilege of marching down and voting their asses out. I know Republican women who are basically saying "WTF? NO."
Because this has gone way beyond the "unborn babies" and "welfare queens" and all the other ways that middle-class white women could say "well, this will never happen to me." It's outright telling these women - women who are already on the voting rolls, who felt their rights were unshakeable, that they have neither privilege nor rights.
I do argue about them being "all alike." In some ways, yes. The ones in power want to stay there, and they'll lie about their rivals. But when push comes to shove, there's only one party that has consistently ruled in the manner I think fit for this country's people and one party that consistently doesn't.