Report from the Beltway
Between paying off credit card debts and taking my wife to museums, I don’t have a lot of time (for now) to engage in ongoing elitist (in the best sense of the word) discussions of modern American society. But sometimes, opportunities just throw themselves in my face.
On the metro, the Commie Post daily handout incited me to participate in two discussions. Here are the articles themselves on the Washington Post website as well as the forum: Men without Clues and Women’s Rally Draws a Vast Crowd the forum is here under “metro” .
Observations about the Abortion Rights Rally: I didn’t go (I had other things to do) but while going to the zoo the previous day I saw a number of enthusiastic supporters getting “signed up”. Literally: they were carrying preprinted signs and buttons. It was very well organized (and probably indirectly taxpayer subsidized). Counter protestors, no kidding, were arrested for not having a permit! Being in the honeymoon stage, I couldn’t talk to other women in the presence of my wife even if they happened to be frumpy and not a threat. So I had to suffer through their remarks without an ability to counterargue.
ALL of the pre-protestors I saw were white without exception. Attractive younger women usually traveled in groups with a few frumpy feminist types traveling together as well. A few women had a husband or boyfriend in two. If they were talking politics, none, repeat, NONE of them cared much about abortion rights. The biggie was national health care. They want it, BAD!!! One gal whined to her friend how much better she had it while living as a student in Austria. I wanted desperately to tell her: “Well, try moving back there then, honey!” (But good luck finding a job.)
On the forum, even one of the moderate women admitted that she stayed home because even as she passionately supported abortion rights, she couldn’t buy into the Marxist bundle they were actually peddling. I doubt that many moderates were lured into their camp rather than driving them away. The photographs on the front page also didn’t seem to be well chosen (mostly protestors hysterically marching with their fists up.)
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