Category: Rants

So, here’s the thing. These people aren’t stupid.

~ Christine Anne Scott ~ Leave a comment

Most of us who have been working on the left side of politics have known the true feelings of conservatives for many, many years.

–A woman’s body is not hers to govern.

–The poor just need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

–If the sick had led better lives, they wouldn’t be in the situation that they’re in.

–The unemployed just need to get off the couch and find a job.

–The environment will take care of itself, because God.

–Making money is more important than clean water.

So why are they now so comfortable exposing themselves? These people aren’t stupid, and they’re not short-sighted, either.

They know they have cover right now. Do you really think they’re concerned that they’re going to lose in 2018?

For all who thought last year’s election, even 48 hours prior, was a slam dunk, (because who in their right mind would vote for a degenerate, we thought), we are now in that same mindset again. It’s not so much that we can’t get out the vote in 2018. That certainly seems like a clear path to making this horrible nightmare go away.

It’s all the other things that Republicans are doing, right now, while we are distracted with all sorts of covfefe that will ultimately seal their deal for who knows how many decades into the future.

–Voter suppression in the form of shortened voting hours, the elimination of early voting, ID cards, and voter roll purges.

–Gerrymandering on a scale that we have never seen before that will make, has already made, it impossible for Democrats to be elected.

–Issues with actual balloting and vote processing. Seriously, if Russians can hack our systems, don’t you think the data in voting machines would be the first place they’d go?

So, yes, it’s important to get the vote out. It’s important to enthuse and inspire angry people to do whatever they have to do to get to their polling place next year. But it will all be for naught if we don’t pay attention to what is really going on here.

All you have to do is ask yourself why, after all these years when they’ve kept their private thoughts to themselves, they feel so comfortable laughing and joking in a Rose Garden while taking away healthcare from their fellow citizens.

–Ask yourself why 22 congressman felt comfortable enough to publicly urge the president to withdraw from the Paris agreement.

–Ask yourself why they are comfortable not speaking out about the heinous racist crimes that are going on in our country right now.

–Ask yourselves why they don’t mind being the laughing stock of the whole world.

This is not rocket science. This is about the fact that they believe they have the cover to expose themselves because they understand quite clearly they will be reelected and their agenda will continue.

How Far Have Women Really Come?

~ Christine Anne Scott ~ Leave a comment

You know, this thing with Bill Cosby is niggling at me, even though there are bigger, more important stories out there.

Maybe, it’s because I see, perhaps for the first time in any big way, what sexism is all about. I knew women made 30% less than men on the dollar. And sure, I have felt that inequality at times through my career when fellow (male) directors were making twice what I made, because, as it was explained to me, they have a family to support.

But, it is only recently that I see that kind of genderism in nearly every facet of life. From silly comments like “you run like a girl,” to the fact that women are often brought in as CEOs of a company only after those organizations are deemed beyond saving. And, more disturbing, they are blamed for its failure. Writer and blogger Ezra Klein wrote eloquently (and spot on) about this phenomena – I’ll find the link and post it.

What I don’t understand is why the media feels they have to bend over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt to Bill Cosby. Prior to Tiger Woods admitting his sexual indiscretions (none of which involved drugging and raping women, as far as I know), the media had a field day exhorting his follies. How many women have come forward at this point to extol the SAME experience – that this man drugged and raped them?  At best, he was caught up in a culture of drugs and celebrity that made him think this was okay. At worst, he is a serial rapist who deserves to be punished. I get the statute has passed and there is no real legal route to criminal prosecution at this point. But, just as Donald Sterling was erased from any sort of legitimate public life, so can be Cosby. If he were a CEO of a corporation, or a Senator, or a police officer – how long do you think it would take the media to see the preponderance of evidence? And don’t even get me started on Cosby warning the black media to be professional. Exactly why does the black media need to be warned? What a waste of human flesh this man is.

Let’s Get Real About Voter Suppression.

~ Christine Anne Scott ~ Leave a comment

If your (honest) argument for voter suppression (or as True the Vote, a conservative “vote-monitoring” organization based in Texas calls it, voter protection) is that voter fraud is rampant, you are either misguided, brainwashed, or an idiot (and by idiot, I mean someone who has a functioning brain, but chooses not to use it).

With under 300 cases NATIONWIDE in the last election brought to prosecution, I believe we can all agree (again, if we are being honest, something not necessarily easy for a conservative hell-bent on denying a fundamental right to millions), this is NOT a problem for our country. If this is your argument, if this is your logic, then you must also believe that because there are 300 hungry children in, oh let’s say Des Moines, Iowa, ONE MILLION volunteers should be mobilized to fan out to the food banks in 15 other states with the hungriest of children. What?? Is hunger not quite on par with voter fraud as a matter of importance? See, your logic and your actions are colored, not by your publicly stated goal, but by your insidious one. Your end, in Machiavellian terms, is, you think, justified by your means.

Except that it is a farce…it is laughable. And it is sad.

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