Hekate
Hekate's JournalIt does not matter who we put in leadership, the GOP will mock and smear them...
...lie about them and use them for a punching bag. ESPECIALLY IF THAT LEADER IS A WOMAN. In that case, being used as a punching bag and butt of mockery will continue after they leave office and beyond the grave.
See: Hillary Clinton.
At this juncture, why on earth would the Dem party or leadership even think about replacing our best in the vain hope of pleasing the GOP? We would be fools to do so.
You know what? HILLARY WON. By the numbers, Americans preferred her message over Trump's...
So what you need to do is figure out how to PROTECT THE VOTES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE by stopping Russian hackers, Chinese hackers, bots, trolls, New Jim Crow laws, Old Jim Crow voter suppression tactics, and all the rest of it.
We HAVE the message. We've negotiated. We've expanded the tent.
So what are you going to do about the voters' rolls that got ethnically cleansed? Hm? You do know about that, right? In places where Hillary "lost" by a narrow margin, up to 200,000 lkely Democratic voters had been purged from the rolls.
Sarandon's idiocy is "our failure"? Hell no it isn't. She is not an ally, she is not a friend...
...and from her high and very privileged perch, she wants the rest of us to know we should have a "revolution," which I take to mean blood and fire and destruction.
She has told us who she is -- and when people tell you who they are, believe them. She needs to be politically neutralized, not courted.
Roe v Wade had restrictions built in from Day One, something the anti-choice fanatics lie about
They lie.
The restrictions placed in Roe were based largely on common societal attitudes of the time, oddly enough, in which there were no restrictions during the first trimester, then increasing restrictions as the second trimester advanced, and only for profound medical reasons in the third trimester.
Throughout history, the 4th month was considered the time of "quickening," when the fetus first makes itself felt in little flutterings. What happened before then was generally a private occurance.
Medical reasons that were part of Roe had to do with life and health of the mother, the viability of the fetus, rape, incest, and so on.
Never has there ever been a legal-abortion policy or law that allowed women to walk into a clinic and demand an abortion of a healthy fetus a week before her due date. Never.
Third trimester abortions are vanishingly rare, but have been demonized by anti-choice fanatics as "partial birth abortion" and infanticide. They are for when the mother will die if she is not delivered immediately; they are for when the fetus is already dead, or is so profoundly deformed that it will die in days. Anencephaly is one such condition. There literally is no brain: most die immediately, some live a whole week. They aren't "retarded" or "developmentally delayed" -- they have NO brain and soon forget to breathe.
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