These are some of the "stupid white men" that Michael Moore's book referred to. Ironically, these same men are the ones who are most hurting themselves. They help the wealthy to get huge tax cuts, transnational corporations to get massive corporate welfare, regulatory concessions and special privleges. They support politicians who keep the poor impoverished, keep the 45+million without health care uncared for. All this to keep their Paternalistic, dominating and controlling needs over women met. These are the guys who run the megachurches, who run the little churches-- weak, needy men who don't have the spine to respect women as equals. They need to treat women as lower, people who don't have the right to use contraceptives or abortion to control their bodies.
Don't get me wrong. There are women who are just as corrupt. But they are the minority. We on the left need to get a handle on WHY these people have fallen prey to the toxic mindset they hold. Until we do, the US will be prey to corrupt politicians who will do ANYTHING to steal elections, grab power and hold onto it. Honest practices on one side are not enough. It will take tough, principled action on the part of the left to beat back-- yes BEAT BACK-- the dishonest, crooked practices and processes, the crooked judges, policies, regulations and laws, appointees and employees who have been put in place by these corrupt right wingers.
And let's be honest. There are dishonest Democrats and left wingers too. But they are far fewer, and the mentality that drives them may be different. As we attempt to clean up our politics, our laws, regulations, election and judicial systems, we should try to create laws and rules that keep them as clean as possible so neither side can corruptly influence them.
This task of cleaning up American corruption may dwarf Hercule's task of clean King Augeas' stables. He just had to divert a river. We have to turn a huge tide that is already at tsunami height.
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