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[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The silence from the media on both is not helping. I have brought up the Equality Act with Americans from all walks of life and no one in my real life had heard of it. This legislation that will strip women of our rights is going to be passed with the tacit approval of all those voting for Democratic politicians without voters even knowing about it, and that really pisses me off.

Some other recent issues that the media were totally silent on:

The TPP

People protesting against the DAPL (oil lines on native land)

The democrats (and republicans) voting to sell your entire browsing history to anyone [Notice how quiet the dems were once this was law.... tells you all you need to know about their 'resisting' trumpf].

Biden's Rapes.

One party controls all the outlets, one party controls the other (fox). CNN had a contributor in 2016 who was feeding debate questions in advance to one side (you can guess who that was done for).

Our media is almost entirely beholden to one political party; the neoliberal neocon fucks who have stolen our democracy with the 'illusion' of choice. Notice how every single asshole in the bush administration is supporting Biden now, but they're going to RESIST trump, sure thing. TO me, Bush/Trump, you cant say bush is any better, with the hundreds of thousands he killed. And seeing democrats embrace these bush repubs just showed me that it was only 'fake' resistence during the bush administration. Hell here is joe trying to get dems to go into Iraq (before bush was even in OFFICE!!!!).

I don't think the Fairness For All Act is going to gain that much traction because I don't think Republican women are going to let it get far. Conservative women can be lionesses.

I agree, in that right leaning women seem to criticize their leaders a bit more often than many modern left leaning women do. Compared to 10 years ago (ending of the bush era), I think that the republicans have switched places with american liberals as the party of groupthink, and demonizing people for criticising Bush Cheney and now Bidenmala.

I will try to find out more about the Fairness For All Act and post it here.

This is an interesting writeup that leans slightly religious, as the group that wrote it, however it seems fairly balanced, from its analysis, but I havent read a ton about FFA yet, so ymmv.

[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have so many well-meaning friends who just vote for the Democrats, and mindlessly endorse the Dems' entire platform, because they're just too busy to research what the Democrats are actually up to.

They just nod along to NPR on their commute, maybe scan the NEW YORK TIMES at breakfast, and so never even know about the issues you mentioned.

And I agree that Biden/Harris are neo-liberals. It also skeeves me out that the same neo-conservatives who lied us into Iraq II are very active never-Trumpers. Bill Kristol, David Frum, all the military and intelligence people who've spoken out against Trump.

Trump would have gotten us into the war both some Democrats and Republicans want against Iran eventually, but I think he's moving too slow for the war mongers of both parties. Plus Trump is so unstable, and clueless, he'd probably accidentally launch the attack meant for Iran on France or something.