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How the Ruling Class Uses the Abortion Issue to Divide-and-Rule

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The Hand of the Ruling Class

How come the pro-choice organizations don't use the argument I presented above or something similar? It would clearly reduce the animosity between the two camps, and make it possible for them to work together in solidarity on other important issues such as, well, class inequality and being ruled by a dictatorship of the rich.

The explanation is that the big pro-choice organizations don't want to offend the ruling class. NARAL ("Pro-Choice America"), for example received funding from the TIDES Center, which is a conduit (as explained in detail here) for Big Money funding from the Ford, Rockefeller, Heinz and similar ruling-class-controlled foundations. The 2017 Women's March, which, while officially about resisting racism and sexism and homophobia and xenophobia and not about pro-choice, stressed a pro-choice theme in its signs (with the same kinds of slogans that I cited above) and even denied pro-life organizations their request to formally participate in the march: it turns out this march was organized by organizations funded by the billionaire George Soros.

The major pro-life organization is also tied closely to Big Money. The largest pro-life organization, the National Right to Life organization, is very tight with the GOP. This is why the pro-life slogans, just as the pro-choice ones, maximally polarize the two camps against each other: murderers versus people against murder!

Large organizations in the United States invariably depend on Big-Money backing. This is why they carefully avoid offending Big Money. This is why they don't frame social issues in a manner that would maximize the ability of a large majority of ordinary people to unite against Big Money and minimize their real but secondary disagreements.

Big Money uses social-issue-advocacy organizations to make us think that we are hopelessly divided right down the middle on fundamental moral questions. This way, Big Money hopes we will not realize that the vast majority of Americans are in fact united in wanting to remove the rich from power, have real--not fake--democracy with no rich and no poor. As long as we feel so hopelessly divided, we won't have the confidence to remove the rich from power.

But we can remove the rich from power. Www.PDRBoston.org is all about that; please visit it.

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I am the editor of www.PDRBoston.org and www.NewDemocracyWorld.org, the author of No Rich and No Poor: The Populist Goal We CAN and Must Win, Divide and Rule: The "Left vs. Right" Trap, The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World (more...)
 

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