Distract, Divide and Conquer
Anything big happen in the news this week? I've been asleep since Monday afternoon. What'd I miss?
On Monday, I dropped three posts. To my recollection, that’s the most active I’ve been here in any single day since I started this little blog. But I could be wrong. What’s funny is absolutely none of them seemed to matter within 5 hours. By Tuesday, the zeitgeist was entirely consumed with Roe v Wade and the Supreme Court’s leaked draft on the matter. I’m not going to get into my own personal thoughts on abortion, Roe v Wade, or the leak. I think these are two very good reads:
Glenn really goes deep on the process from the perspective of constitutional law. Alex explains why state by state legality is ultimately pointless and potentially damaging:
If a woman wants to end the life of a fetus, she will find a way to do so. If she can’t in her own state, she will travel to a state where abortion is legal. If she can’t travel, she will find an illegal provider close by. If she can’t do that, she will get a prescription for misoprostol and mifepristone. If she can’t do that, she’ll drink pennyroyal tea. If she can’t do that, maybe she’ll try a wire hanger.
Misoprostol is actually a drug that is on the WHO’s list of essential medicines and can be used to treat horses. Kinda like iverm…
I know where you guys probably think I’m going with this… I know the comparison you think I’m going to draw… I know what you think I’m going to make this about…
I don’t even need to. It writes itself. Women have the right to choose what happens with their body. Their body, their choice….. Unlessss.... vaccinat…
Okay, I promise I’ll stop.
Just as it was posed during the Elon/Twitter buyout, the obvious question is why now? The draft of this opinion is from February. It isn’t even an official decision, yet we have people who are usually smart who are now chasing ghosts on Twitter:
Like WTF are you even talking about, Mike? Reversing Roe v Wade makes gay love illegal? Really? Can you make any kind of love illegal? No. You can make marriage illegal but I’m picking nits. This is essentially the slippery slope argument. Since action A happened, then B must be next. Hold that thought, we’ll come back to it.
This feels more and more like orchestrated distraction. That, or it’s a cheap Hail Mary to get everyone freaked out so that Democrats have a shot in November (they still don’t). I mean, Biden’s statement from yesterday basically says the only way people can stop the banning of abortions is by voting for Democrats:
if the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law.
Less than an hour after Politico’s article, barricades were put up around the Supreme Court building. A journalist on the ground confirmed the barricades were put up that evening. Interestingly, Snopes still hasn’t been able to do the same as of publication time.
But on the slippery slope argument; why does it always pop up? Why do we always go down that path when things start to happen that we disagree with politically? The exact same thing happened two years ago with lockdowns. What was a conspiracy theory just two years ago? Mandates. Guess what, they tried to do it.
Left, right, or middle, it’s all the same. It seems as though no matter which doctrine we select, as citizens, we inherently understand that the government is bad for us. When republicans are in control, democrats shriek about all of the evil things they’re going to do. When democrats are in control, republicans shriek about all of the evil things they’re going to do. And some of them end up even happening. There is certainly credence to the fear of too much power.
But these ridiculous political games are intentional. This is how the government stays in control. We are all constantly divided, selectively taking stands based on the pre-determined dogma of our tribe. The solution to all of this is incredibly obvious. The state shouldn’t be involved in any of these decisions. Pure and simple. Not marriage. Not jabs. Not abortion. Not bathrooms. None of it.
There. I fixed it. You’re welcome.
Now let’s all get back to what’s really important: this afternoon’s official decree by the Clown King Jerome:
