It is nice to see
that the US Democratic Party back on track. It only took an upheaval turning
women into second-class citizens, the possibility that the Orange Menace could
be reelected, and an out-of-control Supreme Court.
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With all that,
the Dems seem to be pulling even.
There is still a
better than even chance that they could lose the House. If they are lucky, they
will hold onto the Senate; and for that, they would have to thank the
Republicans for putting forward horrible candidates.
President Joe
Biden’s ratings have gone up, from very bad to not good, with the base cheering
on Dark Brandon. But the really positive news is that most Democratic Senate candidates
are more popular than he is.
The Democrats
have managed to come alive in the last few weeks, actually passing stuff in
Congress. After watching the country drown and burn, Joe Manchin freaked out
that he would be single-handedly blamed for climate change and made a deal with
Chuck Schumer.
But the Democrats
are still barely keeping their heads above water.
They just cannot
match the Republican crazy. Unfortunately, a considerable chunk of this country
is acting insane, believing that Democrats are all pedophiles who are drinking
babies’ blood.
Democrats have to
stop fighting a conventional war. It is just not a conventional time.
Ironic that
Friday was Women’s Equality Day, designated so by Congress in the ’70s. At a
time when women all over the world should be blossoming, we are seeing stunning
setbacks.
Sanna Marin,
Finland’s 36-year-old prime minister, is under fire for dancing with her
friends in a country that always gets named “the happiest country in the world”
in the United Nations-sponsored World Happiness Report. What a grim,
still-sexist world this is, when Marin is forced to tearfully apologize — and
take a drug test — after video leaked of her letting loose.
The Helsinki
Times tut-tutted that she was the “Prom Minister” and dismissed the music she
was dancing to as “plebeian”. But the amazing Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of
New Zealand, defended her Finnish counterpart, asking: “How do we constantly
make sure that we attract people to politics, rather than — perhaps as has been
historically the case — put them off?”
Just as women boosted Biden into the White House, now women have to rescue us again, from a bunch of crazy conservatives determining our health care — and how we live our lives.
Rahm Emanuel, the
US ambassador to Japan, tweeted about the double standard: The Australian prime
minister, Anthony Albanese, was cheered for chugging beers at a public concert
while Marin was under fire for dancing at a private party. “Everyone just back
off!” Emanuel wrote.
“She’s getting
hit for being immature,” Emanuel told me. “But she’s mature enough to lead
Finland into NATO. That’s a hard day’s work. I’d need a little party, too!”
Joe Biden seemed
to see how abnormal things were when, at a rally in suburban Washington the
other night, he got bold enough to denounce the MAGA gang for a philosophy that
is “almost like semi-fascism”.
But, keening
about Roe’s reversal, he oddly said of Mitch McConnell: “Even if he’s not as
extreme as some,” he “was able to, quote, ‘pack the court’ legitimately.”
It is wrong to
say McConnell acted legitimately just because he did not break the law.
McConnell bent and broke the rules; he held off an Obama nominee for a year and
then, with a week to go before the 2020 election, jammed the religious zealot
Amy Coney Barrett onto the court.
Barrett was a
“handmaid” in a Christian group called “People of Praise”, in which men are
decision makers over their wives. Now, Barrett is making decisions for all the
women in the country, and it is an outrage.
The Guardian
reported on another leaked video of a recent get-together — far more scary than
Marin’s. It shows the wife of the tyrannical leader of “People of Praise”
saying that some women in the group cried so intensely because of their
subservient roles, they had to wear sunglasses.
Women who thought
that Roe would never really get tossed out, or if it did, it would not have
that much impact, are now realizing what an earthquake this is.
Tudor Dixon, a
Donald Trump acolyte who is the Republican nominee for governor in Michigan,
told a local Fox station that abortion should be illegal even in the case of
minors who are raped. She suggested that having the baby could be “healing”.
Many women are angry and
many are registering to vote. Trump seems nervous, but he has wiggled out of a
lot of jams. Democrats cannot rely on his spontaneous combustion. Just as women
boosted Biden into the White House, now women have to rescue us again, from a
bunch of crazy conservatives determining our health care — and how we live our
lives. And maybe soon, whether we can be Dancing Queens.
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