Unhappy the land that breeds no heroes!
No. Unhappy the land in need of heroes.
- Bertolt Brecht The Life of Galileo (1939)
Kate Cox fled the One Star State of Texass. This, is a huge win for anti-American Republican Party which proved yet again that Women have no rights that Republican need to respect.
Ken Paxton, a multi-indicted criminal, petitioned the Texass Supreme Court to bar Cox from getting a medically sound abortion because he's just Ken and the medical exemption to abortions has always been a sham.
We mourn the decision to take Baby Cox’s life rather than give her every chance at life,” the spokeswoman, Texas Right to Life spokeswoman Kimberlyn Schwartz, said in a statement.
I was certain the Supreme Court wanted Cox to flee instead of them being forced to reveal openly that Republicans had no intention of honoring the "Life of the Mother" or fetal viability exemptions but, the Texass Justices gleefully ruled against her. As for inhuman Texas conservatives I await the Texas civil lawsuits to be filled against Cox and for Sheriff Kelly Rowe of Lubbock County Texas to seek a Warrant for the arrest of the persons responsible for driving Cox across their roads, in violation of the transport ban.
In Kentucky, "Jane Doe" filed a lawsuit against AG Daniel Cameron
“I am a proud Kentuckian and I love the life and family I have built here. But I am angry that now that I am pregnant and do not want to be, the government is interfering in my private matters and blocking me from having an abortion. This is my decision—not the government’s or any other person’s. I am bringing this lawsuit because I firmly believe that everyone should have the ability to make their own decisions about their pregnancies. I hope this case will restore abortion access in Kentucky, if not for me then for the countless people in the future who deserve the autonomy to decide what is best for themselves and their families.”
Via chicanery and political legerdemain Republicans are currently trying to undermine political grassroots efforts to place ballot amendments safeguarding abortion rights before the people, yet this doesn't end the political futures of individual Republicans or the Republican Party. The fact that the Supremacist Court ruling in Dobbs "returning abortion to the states" is understood by everyone as a sham and fraud and groups like the Texass Right to Life, the Thomas More Dead Women and so many others are reverently trying to concoct a suitable Federal Ban to go before the same Sinister Six Injustices is just the hand we've been dealt on well nothing we can do but let Sammy Alito call balls and strikes...
Unlike, H.L. Mencken's mean-spirited cynical aphorism we do not deserve to get this good and hard.
The Republican Party is on the wrong side of every issue in the United States; education, gun control, women's health for instance but, instead of being an ostracized political oddity they continue to win elections and wield considerable control over municipal, state, and the federal government. And they are poised to gain control of all 3 branches of the Federal Government in 2024. The damage Republicans intend and proudly proclaim they will do to the United States and American people has correctly been compared to the Era of Fascism.
How did this come to be?
Voting does in fact change things, which is why Republicans for years have made it voting difficult and while encouraging voter apathy, have created entire well-funded apparatuses to suppress votes, have "inadvertently" purged legal voters "accidentally", have created a self-sustaining falsehood factory devoted to spreading scurrilous lies, Russian disinformation, and outrageous rightwing agitprop about laptops and penises, or tan suits, or emails, or blue dresses, or peanut farms... Anything to distract from the truth which is. Republicans have nothing to offer the American people; no policy, no legal framework, no hope, no future, nothing.
A certain part of this is the Republican predilection to believe their own lies. For so long Republicans have been telling conservatives they are the Moral Majority, they are the true patriots, they are fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. The Corporate Media has done everything they can to buttress the unearned beliefs conservatives hold about themselves with talk of Real America. For decades the Media simply accepts and regurgitates Republican lies about the economy or support for servicememebers and Veterans even though and often in the face of stark reality in which the Republicans Fist-Bump each other as they cut healthcare coverage for disabled Veterans or tank the economy in the latest Republican Recession.
So, instead of being a land of We, the People we are relying on Heroes to extract us from the situation. Conservatives don't have this problem; whatever Head Ass Clown appears to feed them shit they gladly follow and swallow. And it should be obvious that when Fascism arrives in the United States Corporations are going to willingly hand over information without objection and prior to any threats...
These two women, and many others, have realized No One is Coming to Save them. They have to save themselves. We, the People need to realize this, too. Voting is necessary but, not sufficient part of this. We are in for an Unhappy year when we must to some degree all be Heroes; do what you can but, be prepared to have to go above and beyond because Republicans are coming...
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