Tag: #2018

  • That Judge Thing

    The Republicans have made a deal with the devil to get Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. This is the gross world we live in, but there is just about nothing that could have happened yesterday that would have stopped his approval. The goal has been five conservative votes on the court, and it didn’t matter how it happened, but the Republicans will do anything to get the five votes. And that’s the goal post in all of this. And they will get it. Public opinion be damned.

    And that is the calculation in all of this that I just don’t understand. That fifth vote will cost them in the midterms. And then it will cost them in 2020. This may even go on to 2022 and 2024 if major cases are over turned. It makes the Court an issue for years to come.

    But what I really don’t get is that the Republicans have shot themselves in the foot for the next generation of women, if not the one following. For most girls in high school, Dr. Ford looked like their mother, and they just watched as a political party say that her honesty and suffering mean nothing compared to the destiny of a man to be on the Supreme Court. This will last. I know this to be a fact because I was in high school during the Hill/Thomas hearings, and it was clear that a smart intelligent, successful woman amounted to nothing compared to a man. These are the women that are running for office now because they have seen this shit happen before, they have experienced this shit happening to them or their friends, and here we are, doing it all over again. Men will not solve this problem, only women can and will. And why is the Republican party deciding that it is worth alienating just about all women in this country?

    Women the age of Dr. Ford won’t vote Republican. Their daughters won’t. And what makes you think that they won’t teach their sons and daughter to not trust Republican’s in the future.

  • The Vote

    Is anyone out there voting?

    I will be, and I hope more people out there do as well. I also hope that this becomes a habit, and that we start getting to a level, let’s say 80%-90% of the voting age public starts to show up.

    But what can we do to change things? I don’t care about the cause, I just want to make things better.

    First of all, let’s change Election day to a weekend. Two days of voting when just about everyone will have access. Or, make Election Day a national holiday that everyone gets off.

    Next, why don’t we make voter registration automatic when you turn 18? Or, treat it like the selective service act, and make it the law that everyone has to register to vote. I could even see that there would be an option to opt out, because I am sure there will be people out there that just don’t want to vote no matter what.

    What if we encouraged parents to take their kids with them to polling stations? Or provided some form of childcare at polling stations so parent could vote.

    I also wonder why there isn’t some sort of app that is out there that lets you register to vote, or telling you what district you are in, the candidates that are running, issues up for a vote, and where your polling place is.

    The other thing I know is that none of these changes will happen unless we, the public, go out there and demand these changes.