Sunday, September 21, 2014

Very good read---Gird Your Loins, it's the War on Women (Again)

Articles: Gird Your Loins, it's the War on Women (Again)
To start, we must emphasize the fallacies that underlie this notion of women as moral arbiters -- a special sector of the species that motherly like rocks the cradle  and cares only for our best interests.

1) Women politicians are as dishonest and hypocritical as the men. Their sex is not immune from such things

2) Women politicians are no less corrupt than their male counterparts

3) The issues the Democrats tout will hurt women voters as much as they hurt men , if not more

Although all these issues have strong political consequences, it is by no means clear that their origin is, itself, political. I would suggest that a more likely situation is that politics is always opportunistically seeking some cause that fits its needs. However, once an illusional issue becomes a passionate belief, it becomes impervious to argument. Given how dangerous some illusional positions are, it is an important problem to know how to avoid them.....

Undoing the support for numbskull Democrat initiatives is not an easy task. As the Annenberg Foundation noted in poll results this week, Americans (at least a third of them) are strikingly ignorant about government.

Maybe as “Miss Marple” noted in an online discussion this week, it’s not that these citizens are stupid, just not interested in government and how it works. This might not have mattered much decades ago where the difference between the parties and their goals were not all that apparent, but it matters greatly today and we must think of new, more imaginative ways to reach the uninformed.....

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