Bad
Eatin'
Yes, there are more important topics I could have covered
today than fast food (Chinese balloons not inc.) but, without
doubt, what we eat is
vitally important to not only our individual health but the
health
of the entire planet as well. Less animal protein, more lentils
and chick peas, please.
Cards on the table: I love me some bean burritos from Taco
Bueno.
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This past weekend I was asked twice, by two different women,
why Republicans are so Hell-bent against abortion. In both
cases I couldn't easily answer the question because nothing
about the GOP makes sense.
After some pondering I came up with an answer. Kinda. So
get ready for some of Uncle Lefty's Nutshell American History.
(The following engages is MASSIVE amounts of generalization
written from an unavoidably entitled-White-person viewpoint.
If you desire a deeper dive into historical specifics, please
visit your local library. They look forward to seeing you.)
I'm going to begin in agrarian America (Sure, why not?) when
children were like Chinese appliances. Good to have around,
useful for small tasks, cheap to make
but
no telling
how long
they'd last. And when one broke you just made another because
the manufacturer offered no warranty. It also made sense
to have spares handy.
Then industrialization rolled around and the middle-class
arrived, and the first thing the plebes wanted to do was
emulate the rich who, because of complicated inheritance
laws, kept
their ninos to a minimum. Wealthy people even went so far
as to create "nurseries" for their precious little
gene pools instead of just setting them free each morning
like a pack of poodles. Suburbia soon followed architectural
suit.
Post-war WWII America was awash in horniness and thus the
Baby Boom exploded in its midst. It coincidentally arrived
alongside impressive advances in medical
science that saved many young lives, but it came
with a cost. Namely... cost.
The children of the Baby Boom began having children of their
own and it soon became clear that the average salary wasn't
up to the task of patching up little Billy every time he
experimented with Newtonian physics on his new Schwinn. Nor
curing the many new and varied ailments which afflicted
young bodies as a result of exposure to capitalist toxins
that saturated the air and poisoned the waters.
Children then became precious objects, likes Faberge eggs,
as family size declined. Protective measures like mandatory
bike helmets ensued. Parental helicoptering became the norm.
Eventually Americans reached a phase that George Carlin
referred to
as "child
worship".
Corporate America
and their right-wing buddies noticed the increased caution.
So it was about
this time that "Think of the children" became the
GOP's battle cry. And they applied it liberally, especially
to even the most fundamental aspects of human development...
conception, gestation and birth. Purely for reasons of political
power, too, not out of any real concern for the kiddies.
Of this much the history is clear.
(To be certain, the lives of our young are important and
we should protect them as best as we are able, but Republicans
deem their lives more important than the mother herself.
And that's insanity.
That's
madness.)
So here we are, several generations of
Americans deep into this Conservative ad campaign that preys
on guilt. An insincere, hypocritical ploy by Conservatives
that will always work. Which is why American women, to abuse
an old saying, will cut off
their
noses to
spite
another
women's
idea of freedom. These "other women" are abstracts
to them but the babies they carry, well, Jesus needs 'em.
Every damn
one of them.
As long as Americans, especially American women, keep falling
for this Mount Everest of emotional swill this country will
never be free
of
guns,
or racial
conflict, or income inequality or any of a thousand things,
big and small, that would truly make this country great again.
Addendum: I'm not letting men off the hook here, but the
minds of male misogynist bastards will never be swayed by
any reasonable argument I could possibly concoct.
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Final note: Disregarding for a moment all the unfortunate
Justin Roiland news, if you enjoy "Rick and Morty" then
check out "Gary
and His Demons". It's in its second season. How
did I miss this?
=Lefty=
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