Taking the Plunge

[neadods]

I hear that when you're a kid, you regret what you've done and when you're an adult, you regret what you haven't done. I also hear, direct from the DC Shakes, that there hasn't been a peep regarding the Mock Trial waitlist, but there are "a bunch" of dinner tickets left.

Been thinking about this too long, too often. I'm going to get my ticket tomorrow.

Will tell all the weekend after, when I have a chance to write it up.


PS - I know some deep shit is going down in American politics right now. I'm focusing on the topic that *won't* give me an aneurism. Because if I get on the topic of "unborn babies are so precious that women can't even abort dead ones" (Georgia) or "men need money more, so women shouldn't have equal pay" (Wisconsin) I will rage and rage for hours with a shitload of profanity. I kind of wish I was back at my old office, though, just for one day to have one more political argument with my co-worker. The one who seriously thought that once we had rights, we got to keep them, and that they would never, ever be repealed.

Although... to be honest, I'm starting to think that the "repeal the 20th and 21st centuries" movement is a Republican plot. They don't know how to fix the economy either and the tea party darlings are such an ungovernable embarrassment that it's better to step back, let the crazed loons go so crazy that the Democrats are swept back in... and then watch them fail to quick-fix the economy and blame 'em for it in another 2-4 years.

Comments

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

When I read elsewhere of the Wisconsin repeal of the Equal Pay act, I had to check the calendar-- no, this isn't April 1, so what the.... This can't be REAL, can it....?

My only hope-- my ONLY hope-- is that these reactionary morons are getting very close to the point where a majority of voters realizes what the hell they've been doing and reacts at last by dumping them. Of course that's getting harder all the time with the GOP shutting down voting as hard as they can.

Anytime you hear or read someone saying of parties or politicians, "They're all alike," ARGUE. They're bloody not.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis

[canaana.livejournal.com]

That's actually a going theory. The more disturbing one is that they know the only way they can get ppl to continue to vote against their own econmic interests at this point is to start hammering away on social issues considered immoral my much of their voter base.

Let's hope it backfires. I wish my confidence were higher.

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

I don't think they are doing because they don't know what to do with the economy. I suspect the GOP knows exactly what their financial philosophy does to the economy.

So they go after the "social issues" and hammer about "voting fraud" so they can disenfrancise people.

it's to distract us from the fact that the rich get richer, and everyone else gets poorer.

[suze2000.livejournal.com]

HO

[fyrdrakken]

There were a couple of pieces I read last week that made some connections that hadn't occurred to me before -- of course the next step after taking abortion out of reach is to erode the right to contraception, and of course the most conservative elements want women out of the workforce and back to being forced to marry ASAP and stay at home with their hordes of (preferably white and Christian) children.

But this article looked at the history of adoption over the twentieth century, and the decades when single mothers were expected and even coerced into putting their children up for adoption -- but the rate of children being put up for adoption plummeted drastically after Roe v. Wade. Turns out, there are a significant number of fundies who really want thousands of (healthy, white) children being put up for adoption every year and handed off to Christian couples who'd really love to be part of the Quiverfull movement if they'd been able to have children of their own. And there are a lot of organizations out there streamlining the adoption process and armtwisting single women into having and relinquishing their children. (Crisis Pregnancy Centers, it turns out, pretty much specialize in this.)

So, um, the arguments that contraception and sex ed actually prevent abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies, and that abstinence-only education is really bad in terms of preventing teen pregnancies? Yeah, that's going to the assumption that all pro-lifers actually want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

ETA: Glad you sprung for the trial -- hope you enjoy it! And yeah, I'm thinking the sane Republicans are just keeping their heads down hoping they don't get swept out when the voters purge the Tea Party elements, and biding their time for 2014 and 2016.