Why would I say that? Why, when a fair percentage of those families are themselves supporters of the Republican Party?
I say it because the result of the Republicans' War on Women ongoing as we speak will inevitably result in the loss of women's rights.
All of them.
I kid you not. Currently, Republicans are rapidly destroying the Supreme Court-assured rights to abortion. While the Government sits by and does nothing.
They are talking about destroying your rights to contraception. They are talking about destroying your rights to employer provided health care insurance.
They are fighting, tooth and nail, the push to ensure the rights of women to equal pay for equal work.
It is a small step from that to forcing women to stay home and from there to destroying your rights to even owning property.
Back to the eighteenth century, when a women could not own property, could not vote, could not (except for certain highly restricted jobs) work outside of the home, even if alone and single with no family. You were forced to be the ward of either family members who were male or a ward of the state, who could take your property and force you to live anywhere, even on the streets.
All of this with no regard for any children she may be responsible for, male or female.
Have you ever seen Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"? Remember the abject poverty depicted there? Just about any story of the country of England from the advent of the Industrial revolution until early in the 20th century will show some aspect of that country's poverty-stricken lower classes.
People living on the streets with no shelter, no income, rags for clothing, living in a city and country in which there were few of any soup kitchens, or free shelters, or health care of any kind.
Pretty much like many American cities of today, in fact, with the major difference that there does exist, until now, some forms of government provided assistance intended to keep families off the streets. At least until the Republicans get themselves elected to a majority of the Senate to match their control of the House and put a Republican puppet of the Oligarchs in the White House.
At which time any assistance programs will cease to exist, public education will no longer be provided, consumer protection of any kind will be gutted if not destroyed, and any control by the government of any activity taken by Corporations will either cease to be effective, or will be ended altogether.
It won't take long before women will be prevented from working at all, and families that depend on their income will find themselves on the streets in very short order, their property taken, their ability to work completely destroyed.
Don't ask what that will do to single women, married lesbian couples or even widows.
I know this paints a terrifying picture, and a lot of folks will take one look and exclaim, "That can't happen here!"
But it can. I never thought that a woman would be brought up on murder charges for having a miscarriage, but it has happened. I never thought that a woman who simply fired a warning shot (in a "Stand Your Ground State!) would get tried for attempted murder and threatened with 60 years in prison, but that trial is ongoing as we speak.
How far could we be from complete destruction of every progressive advance in civilized legal rights this country has seen since 1776? It isn't as far as you'd think, should Republicans win control of our government.
I mean, look at Louisiana - which has advanced a bill to make the Bible the STATE BOOK.
In complete defiance of the Constitution, as written.
Do you think for a moment that they would pay any attention to the rest of that document once they win control?
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