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[lagilman]

Any woman who votes for the Republican party this go-round needs to reconsider her own sense of self-worth (and, possibly, self-hate).

Argue the economy all you want. Argue taxes all you want. Even argue war and national security all you want. When a party consistently says, over and over again, the only people that they recognize as having 'legitimate' rights are (straight white) males...

what does it matter if you're paying more or less taxes? You're not considered an equal citizen.


(new this week: the "no exceptions" abortion ban drafted by the GOP plank platform - no exceptions for rape. Because, according to Akin, we lie about it being rape, anyway. And what THEY believe trumps what YOU might believe. Because, well, you're not equal, after all.)

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[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I mean, yeah, I knew that she and my dad bought into that whole "white man's burden" thing when it came to race, but to hear someone in 2004 advocating for what amounts to the divine right of kings ... *helpless shrug*

Like most rich white Republicans, she doesn't see her own privilege, or understand how that privilege works. To her, the rich are rich simply because it is their nature to be so, and the poor are poor because of theirs. If a poor person really wanted to become rich, well, they would have done something to change their circumstances. That they can't is not the fault of a system that's designed to keep them down, but an obvious indication of their natural inferiority.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

And at the same time they cite the Constitution as a biblical absolute and the founding fathers as patron (Christian) Saints - completely ignoring the historical reason that necessitated the constitution and that many of the FFs were at best radical freethinkers, Masons and in Paine's case atheist!