The Porch Light Is On And Nobody Is Home

[Scootaloo]

1. For a lot of Americans, it's just another superbowl

it's a game they watch on TV, and they cheer when their "team" scores, and then after it's over they go back to doing whatever they do because football doesn't really matter - and to these people, neither do politics.

It's stuff like this birth control bullshit that knocks it home to these people that yes, yes it fucking DOES matter. Usually it's pretty easy to keep the wool over their eyes by presenting the situations as being very distant from "mainstream" so the people who see politics as some game never have to confront the impact. Who cares what happens to those people, my life is about me, basically. But then the GOP goes and attacks medicine that is integral to millions and millions of Americans, and, well, suddenly hte ramifications of politics are right there in your medicine cabinet, where football never is.