By Donald A. Collins |16 February 2023
Church and State
Over 60% of Americans favor women’s right to abortions under all or most circumstances.
Read these articles here:
https://news.gallup.com/Poll/1576/abortion.aspx
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/26/democrats-republicans-midterms-abortion-/
While Democrats are talking about what’s at stake for reproductive health care in November, Republicans are trying to avoid the conversation.https://t.co/mI14z0BJi4
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) June 28, 2022
This fact confirms the title above, but doubtless dark money such as provided by Leonard Leo and his ideologically driven allies including the religious zealots who have a majority on the Supreme Court will continue to deny the majority’s wish for the restoration of a national right to choose abortion.
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, touching off a cascade of antiabortion laws that probably will take effect across roughly half the country.
Without the landmark precedent in place, the national abortion landscape will change quickly. https://t.co/8GDK9nIKEg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2022
In so doing, the bumbling clueless GOP will afford Democrats the basis for the overwhelming case for electing more Democrats.
Why? Tyranny on choice simply highlights other unfavorable GOP positions which again are demographically unfavorable to them.
RNC tells 2024 Republicans to lean into their plans for a Nowhere To Run National Abortion Ban👇https://t.co/WZPjfNRjuy
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) February 1, 2023
Certainly a vital action against democracy is the GOP effort to limit voting rights. Even Forbes Magazine takes out against this bad choice.
Read here.
Hundreds of bills have been filed in 43 states https://t.co/BYWGdyrq9J
— Forbes (@Forbes) March 11, 2021
Or read here and here for other backers for increasing voting opportunities.
Next item of concern to all Americans should be GOP intransigence on gun control as mass shootings accelerate. The 2nd US Constitutional Amendment calling for the right to bear arms led now to establishing the USA by far as the most dangerous country on earth for gun violence.
Read here.
Then there is the immigration issue which will be the major point of GOP attacks in the lead up to 2024.
After decades of no real negotiations by both parties to set a reasonable policy for a nation composed mainly of immigrants, the GOP use of this issue as a bludgeon will seem increasingly uncomfortable as the economy suffers worker shortages as our population ages.
Read here the differences between the major parties on immigration.
66% of Americans say making it easier for U.S. citizens and legal residents to sponsor family members to immigrate to the U.S. is an important goal for U.S. immigration policy. https://t.co/Vqr7DuTmNZ pic.twitter.com/BO3L1n1VEV
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 9, 2022
Note the GOP embrace of Critical Race Theory defined as pushing the danger of whites being replaced by immigrants has an increasingly powerful ring of racism as both new immigrants and African Americans assume prominent roles in our government, cultural and business lives.
So, the clear pursuit of exposing the GOP’s willful ignoring of these growing demographic gaps as well as the immorality of their racist religious intentions should provide a powerful core for the Democrats game plan.
Should the GOP get away with mandating our country as a Christian Nationalist nation?
Read here.
“Fully 61% of Republicans supported declaring the US a Christian nation. In other words, even though over half of Republicans previously said such a move would be unconstitutional, a majority of GOP voters would still support this declaration.”https://t.co/1WqlGC94i5
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 7, 2022
When shortly Biden announces his run for a second term, the hue and cry from members of both parties about his age ignores his exemplary record of stabilizing a heeling ship and getting important legislation passed in a highly divided Congress. Many also fail to note that so far, the GOP has not offered its plan for governance except the above bad ones and their hope to smear Biden with House Congressional investigations about his family.
As we noted above, stupid is as stupid does, which I personally regret. Just beware that the GOP’s Trumpian fall into increasing authoritarianism profoundly attacks our democracy in lasting way, as the ruination of the Supreme Court’s reputation proves.
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?” and “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”.“What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”: https://t.co/fHuh0CG6JD
“We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”: https://t.co/TA4j7cp1tE
“From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”: https://t.co/lkC2t3E1A9 pic.twitter.com/bQsL2mLBcO— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) November 1, 2021
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