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In reply to the discussion: The Progressive Abortion Purity Test [View all]ancianita
(43,444 posts)In the political arena, progressives are tempted to walk and talk with their counterparts in a restrictive sandbox full of rhetorical "loyalty tests." Progressives just think that the hard push back from a united front is the answer. Progressivism is only one answer and one tool. Many of any political stance mistake "difference" for "deficit." We're still learning to live and let live with difference. Women most often still support each other even when they don't agree with each other. We tend to seek unity that way, not uniformity. Uniformity sickens free will.
We cry because we know that if we were not 'pressed' into surviving this inequality game, we'd have no problems with either more births or more abortions. We cry because we are, at that moment, stuck with a decision that either supports or denies that rigged game, which is built on manipulating our free will. We cry because we stretch and grow by exercising free will.
Still too often, misery is often based on built-in guilt structures of this rigged game, whether the guilt comes from patriarchalists, progressives, religion, whatever... Afterward, we have to work to transcend the structures that still label us or press us away from our free wills. Consciousness is hard and heartbreaking work. As we restructure society and belief systems that will respect everyone's bodies and free will, we will all be more at peace.
Until then, those who would destroy our free wills will try to overpower and dominate us by any means necessary. Until then, discourse and vigilance, not judgment, are the means for pushing forward.