It's not about the Republican war on women - it's the Democrat war on WIVES - Granite Grok

It’s not about the Republican war on women – it’s the Democrat war on WIVES

John Hayward over at Hot Air has a piece that ties a bunch of things together – go read the entire thing (it’s not all that long).  Here’s a few bon mots (emphasis mine):

…The Left doesn’t just craft political strategies to attract single female voters. Liberal policies create them. One of the most significant effects of left-wing social policy has been the decline of marriage. It takes a lot of statistical yoga to argue that the War on Poverty has done anything to “fix” poverty, but viewed as a trillion-dollar effort to dissolve traditional family structure, it’s a roaring success. Virtually everything the Left has done for decades is part of the war on wives.

Want to transform Society?  Just have the Republican Party do what the Nevada Republicans have done – eliminate all references to “social issues“.  Hey buds!  This mean that you are going to cede the entirety of Society to the Dems?  Are you that freaking stupid?  Look back over the last 5 decades and keep in mind Andrew Breitbart’s fundamental understanding of Politics: “Politics is downstream of culture”.  That is to say, society of that culture.  Which the Dems have used their “social issues” policies to change the culture to change the politics.  And you Republican Smartest People in the Room keep saying to knock off the icky Right to Life, marriage, and the like?  Fundamental transformation right out from beneath your feet.  Wave that white flag.  Give up on the only path in which you can even hope to stay even?  We’re already seeing the fruits of that already.

Note to the clueless – no “social issues“?  Really?  Has the Establishment Republican Party done all that magnificently on the FISCAL ISSUES so as to be able to ditch half the battlefield?  If they had, would there have even been a need for the TEA Party uprising??? Sadly, no – why else do you think the phrases “Least Lackeys of the Welfare State” and “Jr. Partners of the Democrats” are floating around more and more?  So, yer just gonna abandon the “abject failure to succeed on” issues to concentrate on the “merely stinking bad performance” ones? 

…Abortion also helps deal with the fallout from leftist policies that gradually replaced marriage to men with marriage to the State. That’s the cruel truth at the heart of the war on wives: the rejection of traditional family structure leads to dependency, not independence, both for women and their children… and, ultimately, for men as well. Even the Obama 2012 campaign’s fabled “Life of Julia” slideshow, supposedly a celebration of female empowerment under President Obama’s enlightened socialism, can be read as a chilling portrait of lifetime indebtedness to the State. The eponymous heroine is literally incapable of doing anything without a helpful government program, a point driven home by assertions that cruel Mitt Romney would have canceled all those programs and left “Julia” adrift. It’s no coincidence that “Julia” also somehow manages to produce a designer baby without a husband, or any mention of a man at all.

You do have to hand it to them – use the culture to denigrate religion and morality, separate procreation from marriage, and convince everyone that living for the moment is about the extent of family planning.  Because nothing says “independence” like the monthly recharge of the EBT card and waiting in line in the Gubmint “social issues” office.  Don’t need family, don’t need a spouse – just the blank face of the social worker to which Society has outsourced it cares and responsibilities to.  Yup, just as long as the State money doesn’t run out, I am independent of YOU!

Marriage was first devalued to become one “lifestyle alternative” among many, and then devalued further into an inferior choice, especially in the case of women who stay at home to raise their children. You don’t have to prod a liberal very hard to elicit pure contempt, even visceral hatred, for women who make that choice. And their policies have created a world in which stay-at-home motherhood is difficult for middle-class families to arrange.

Choice?  Only for the policies that have the Progressive stamp of approval.  And that approval comes only when Government policies restructure the culture and social issues all lead back to Government as the first and second and ….. last resort.  At which time, Government becomes not only the Provider and Protector…

But the embodiment of the Progressive god itself.

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