Breaking News!! Worldwide chaos as the falsehood of the Wizard of Oz had been revealed. Dorothy and friends have turned down the offer to walk the road. They refuse to partake in the falsehood of this illusion meant to deceive, to placate upset citizens and visitors to Oz who looked toward the Wizard for aid and rescue. As usual, the truth has come forth in all its ugly glory, but hopefully, in time to rescue those proposed to be the victims of restrictions of rights, denied their membership in humanity itself.
So, my children, weep for what was, for what might have been and apparently will never be under the rule of a hypocritical GOP and its nefarious plans to increase the degradation of others. The nightmares have in fact become 'daymares' as the false wall of the GOP is breached and the ugliness pours out. The stench is of a MAGA instigated and perpetrated attack on the most very basic rights and assumptions of mankind, as the GOP fights to take us not to Camelot, but to Hell on Earth.
As a human I am offended.
As a Jew I am frightened.
As a woman I am terrified.
Not so much for myself, as the light at the end of the tunnel glows stronger as every day passes. No, my worry, my fears, are for the younger generations. How will they live under such rules? Will they even be allowed to live, or will they be used as the animals they are likened to, as the chattel of others, denied humanity, denied all rights of independence and control over their own lives? Nope, the future is not rosy at all.
What am I talking about? The cascade has begun; the attitudes clearly portrayed, in the open. The warnings of those who had defended the right to choose, to be an independent adult, have come to life, brutally and quickly. The declared war has come out in the open, the die cast.
No sooner in office made possible by gerrymandering and tampering with the ability of citizens to vote, the GOP has pulled out all stops, taken down their disguises, pushed their lies upon us, and are rushing to pass legislation inimical to the very concept of America.
They say they wish to condemn violence rampant in the area of abortion denial. Oh, for sure I agree. For sure. However, the violence in this whole issue has been from the anti, rained upon the pro-choice. The very examples the GOP legislators use to justify their plans are, in fact, incidents of violence by anti-choice upon the volunteers, the medical personnel, the very buildings and offices where people have the right to choose. Where women come for routine, life affirming tests and care, where women are treated as humans. Period. Their Babies Born Alive bill is nonsense, the very possibility of it infinitesimal.
Last night I read of a story out of Missouri, yet another benighted, backward southern state. A bill was introduced -and debated - in all its "wrongness'', justifying it, refusing to admit the cascade effect seen clearly in this, in its very existence. It openly, brazenly, reduces women to objects of perusal, needful of guidance in the very act of dressing, as opposed to men, who evidently need no such advice. (Do not know where these people have been all their lives if they believe that!! Any wife can 'learn' ya' the truth on that!)
How demeaning for the women in that chamber; for all women in fact, discussing the clothes the women in the chamber were wearing, commenting on bodies and proprieties as if they are children, uncaring, incapable of exercising basic rights, reduced to schoolchildren forced into uniforms - but not the men. Never that!
Next up, Rep. Jack Nelson of Idaho who compares cows, milk cows, to women, assigning them the same category, unworthy of basic human rights, subject to the whims, the twisted minds and "knowing" of such as he. How demeaning, rude, disrespectful, certainly meriting exclusion from chambers- forever, - guilty of discrimination, and definitely in urgent need of a wash of mouth with strong carbolic soap!
Finally, at least for this blog, we have the eternal fascistic impulses of this generation of too many GOP governors, such as Abbott, of Texas, who speaks of human trafficking. How he did not regurgitate after he said these words, the man who engages in repeated human trafficking by sending individuals, families, legal and illegal immigrants, separated children, into freezing weather, no care set up, to prove his ugly beliefs, to act upon them and then be able to say this - I boggle indeed.
“Human trafficking stands as an affront to human dignity, and tragically, it lurks beneath the surface of modern America, mocking the very notions of liberty and justice. Ours can never be a truly free and just society so long as human trafficking endures, and we must therefore go to any lengths necessary to purge this vice from our nation.”
Well, judge for yourself who is for the people, who is the true heartless trafficker. Now judge your needs. Look at your families, at the women in your family, at the diversity within your family - and know, that no, you are not immune to the toxic results and cascade of brutal, bitter, oh so wrong consequences of and by these twisted people and their proposed changes to the fabric of this nation.
The danger is here.
The danger is now.
The time to think honestly and act accordingly is now.
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