Ever rightward!
18 Feb 2012 09:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerYes, the Republicans are looking more and more stupid, to say the least. Here's the latest: Birth Control Debate: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence.
Morons.
Obama is keeping out of the debate, and many talk about how wise this is, not engaging with the crazies, not "stooping to their level", not responding to the rantings in the Iowa morons who wants people who perform abortions charged with feticide, and thrown in jail for life without parole.
Here is the problem with that strategy.
When the dust settles, and we've all agreed that the Republicans are nuts, the debate will have shifted rightward yet again. But not pushing back, by allowing these people to rant on unchecked, Obama is allowing the parameters to shift. We might be at a status quo legally, not having ceded anything, but the idea that birth control is controversial, and its use needs to be questioned will be part of the national Zeitgeist. (Is national Zeitgeist redundant?).
Obama is allowing this by trying to be the Great Messianic Uniter, or whatever grandiose image he has of himself. By keeping himself above the debate, he is allowing it to shift towards rightwing ideas, with no opposition from the person who is supposed to be a Democrat/someone who believes in women's rights.
Morons.
Obama is keeping out of the debate, and many talk about how wise this is, not engaging with the crazies, not "stooping to their level", not responding to the rantings in the Iowa morons who wants people who perform abortions charged with feticide, and thrown in jail for life without parole.
Here is the problem with that strategy.
When the dust settles, and we've all agreed that the Republicans are nuts, the debate will have shifted rightward yet again. But not pushing back, by allowing these people to rant on unchecked, Obama is allowing the parameters to shift. We might be at a status quo legally, not having ceded anything, but the idea that birth control is controversial, and its use needs to be questioned will be part of the national Zeitgeist. (Is national Zeitgeist redundant?).
Obama is allowing this by trying to be the Great Messianic Uniter, or whatever grandiose image he has of himself. By keeping himself above the debate, he is allowing it to shift towards rightwing ideas, with no opposition from the person who is supposed to be a Democrat/someone who believes in women's rights.
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