Recent debate over stem cell research is just another example of how the Republicans play the publics emotions and hustle the political community.
GW. Bush is indifferent to everything EXCEPT things that allow him and his cynical business friends to hustle the country for political and financial gain.
Here is my reply to a new Blog called Huffington Post.
Until the 19th century when a better understanding of fetus development was established few in medicine got involved with the subject. Most women learned early that eating certain weeds or ingesting certain kinds of mold would cause miscarriage. In general few women were convicted of a crime since such matters were private. The idea that "Society" should influence a woman's decision to have or not have children was rarely considered; religions had "Official" rules rarely enforced.
With the coming of mass circulation papers and the gradual public awareness of health and the need for hygiene what was once private became public. Organized medicine waged a campaign to defeat "Old wives" remedies and "Folk medicine" out of self-interest.
As men became better educated and retreated from church and woman still barred from education became the larger part of congregations religion changed from a male mindset to a female mindset. The development of a "Social Conscience" in popular media and religion fueled the rise of "family" services. Most politicians shied away from "Woman's issues"
In the 20th century as almost all social and political causes came to include women what was once private became even more public, and as usual the need for demons and saints affected all of it. Much of the Hygiene movement in 1930's America was derided by Republicans as Communist or immoral. Eleanor Roosevelt's honest efforts to create a public consciousness concerning children, the family, and pre natal care was dismissed by the GOP as "Stupid and liberal meddling"
The Republicans resisted all of this until the Democrats started wining election after election and controlled congress for decades.
By the 1960s it was very clear that voter trends were shifting away from industry and war issues and turning to "Social, Woman's and quality of life" issues.
The Republicans saw all of it with contempt and sought to co-opt the Democrats. So they gloomed onto religion and encouraged a reactionary backlash against "Social and Family" progress they could not control.
They corrupted religion by offering access to power and they corrupted medicine by rewarding those who endorsed their cynical scams and punishing their critics.
So here we are, this "Moral Values" campaign by the Republicans and the "Culture of Life" Just a new slogan for a classic hustle invented by cynical men who define women as "Emotional Fools"
The right to life movement is in fact a misogynist movement that will never outlaw abortion or actually shut down serious medical research, but they will play it every which way as long as the game works for them,
GW Bush "Faith Based" Services is a carrot and stick flimflam to hustle different religions.
Stem Cell research is demonized as long as it scares Common folk and agitates the liberals.
In time the GOP will accept stem cell research just as they finally embraced public safety, hygiene, and school children vaccinations, things they opposed for decades.
The tragedy here is that the rest of the world is getting wise to the cynical hustle of US politics and are slowly drifting away.
Eventually the US will be isolated and probably ignored as the rest of humanity moves on.
GW Bush and his friends do not care, they came to Washington to make money and that's all. The president's statements and public deeds are calculated and given in an atmosphere of indifference to truth, consequence, or morality. Mr. Bush and his friends came to power; already believing the federal government was immoral.
History will record the damage, ruined lives, and tragic waste, and Mr. Bush and friends will cry all the way to the bank.
GW. Bush is indifferent to everything EXCEPT things that allow him and his cynical business friends to hustle the country for political and financial gain.
Here is my reply to a new Blog called Huffington Post.
Until the 19th century when a better understanding of fetus development was established few in medicine got involved with the subject. Most women learned early that eating certain weeds or ingesting certain kinds of mold would cause miscarriage. In general few women were convicted of a crime since such matters were private. The idea that "Society" should influence a woman's decision to have or not have children was rarely considered; religions had "Official" rules rarely enforced.
With the coming of mass circulation papers and the gradual public awareness of health and the need for hygiene what was once private became public. Organized medicine waged a campaign to defeat "Old wives" remedies and "Folk medicine" out of self-interest.
As men became better educated and retreated from church and woman still barred from education became the larger part of congregations religion changed from a male mindset to a female mindset. The development of a "Social Conscience" in popular media and religion fueled the rise of "family" services. Most politicians shied away from "Woman's issues"
In the 20th century as almost all social and political causes came to include women what was once private became even more public, and as usual the need for demons and saints affected all of it. Much of the Hygiene movement in 1930's America was derided by Republicans as Communist or immoral. Eleanor Roosevelt's honest efforts to create a public consciousness concerning children, the family, and pre natal care was dismissed by the GOP as "Stupid and liberal meddling"
The Republicans resisted all of this until the Democrats started wining election after election and controlled congress for decades.
By the 1960s it was very clear that voter trends were shifting away from industry and war issues and turning to "Social, Woman's and quality of life" issues.
The Republicans saw all of it with contempt and sought to co-opt the Democrats. So they gloomed onto religion and encouraged a reactionary backlash against "Social and Family" progress they could not control.
They corrupted religion by offering access to power and they corrupted medicine by rewarding those who endorsed their cynical scams and punishing their critics.
So here we are, this "Moral Values" campaign by the Republicans and the "Culture of Life" Just a new slogan for a classic hustle invented by cynical men who define women as "Emotional Fools"
The right to life movement is in fact a misogynist movement that will never outlaw abortion or actually shut down serious medical research, but they will play it every which way as long as the game works for them,
GW Bush "Faith Based" Services is a carrot and stick flimflam to hustle different religions.
Stem Cell research is demonized as long as it scares Common folk and agitates the liberals.
In time the GOP will accept stem cell research just as they finally embraced public safety, hygiene, and school children vaccinations, things they opposed for decades.
The tragedy here is that the rest of the world is getting wise to the cynical hustle of US politics and are slowly drifting away.
Eventually the US will be isolated and probably ignored as the rest of humanity moves on.
GW Bush and his friends do not care, they came to Washington to make money and that's all. The president's statements and public deeds are calculated and given in an atmosphere of indifference to truth, consequence, or morality. Mr. Bush and his friends came to power; already believing the federal government was immoral.
History will record the damage, ruined lives, and tragic waste, and Mr. Bush and friends will cry all the way to the bank.
