America may be disillusioned with the economy. The solution is not electing a troglodyte like Matt Birk, who maligns women.
Troglodyte GOP candidate Matt Birk on women
Our economic problems have their genesis with Republican leadership and neo-liberal orthodoxy. Those candidates should be extricated from our body politic as they are provably a clear and present danger to the economics of the poor and middle-class.
I watched a video from Minnesota Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Matt Birk speaking at an anti-choice gathering. He made some quite shocking statements.
“Our culture loudly but also stealthily promotes abortion,” Matt Birk said. “Telling women they should look a certain way, they should have careers, all these things.”
In other words, women are not entitled to their careers?
“Rape is obviously a horrible thing,” Birk continued. “But abortion is not going to heal the wounds of that two wrongs. It is not going to make it right. One of the arguments that I’ve probably seen 20 times online today was about rape. They always want to go to the rape card.”
Now he believes he has agency over a woman’s mind and body. After all, he presumes to know what it is like to carry violence in a woman’s womb for 9 months. Worse is the hubris he has, believing that he knows what it feels like to allow for the eventual existence of a human with a raped woman’s DNA mingled with the DNA of personal terrorism.
“A lot of things have been legal before that [abortion],” Birk continues. “We’ve changed. Right. You know, slavery used to be legal. Right. Which is an interesting comparison to make because really the way that the other side treats an unborn child is basically that that unborn child is the property of the mother.”
First of all, it is not an unborn child. It is a blastocyst, embryo, fetus, etc. but not yet a person. But again, sadly, he shows his inability to draw analogies when he injected slavery as he did. Please listen to the entire video and my narrative.
America is at a crossroads. There is a “Talibanization” of the Republican Party that Matt Birk represents that we must mitigate. He is not an aberration. Donald Trump is the culmination of what the party has become. We cannot sit back and hope that this “Talibanization” will dissipate and not spread to Independents and Democrats. It is already happening. When one leaves a messaging vacuum and refrains from challenging disinformation, bad deeds, and the status quo, it becomes more than a possibility but a certainty. And that is why we do what we do along with scores of other small independent progressive media organizations.