Panic sets in for the GOP
Some things can never be undone and can never be changed. The GOP’s contempt for women is one of them. I write this essay as I mull over the GOP’s latest desperate measure. My lips curve into a smile, and laughter bursts forth from me quickly and easily at the fading scraps of a political party that once was the Grand Old Party.
Several Republicans are panicking — because of abortion. They see what’s happening; they know which way the wind is blowing, and they can’t handle it. So, these Republicans are attempting to do the impossible. They are trying to erase the past and turn themselves into advocates for women. I imagine I am not the only one laughing mockingly right now, am I?
These Republicans are mainly running in Democratic-leaning areas. They are trying to hold onto their House seats with frantic energy, trying to go back in time and change the past. These people are trying to rebrand themselves as pro-choice. One such Republican is in California (GOP Rep. Matt Gunderson” who released an ad in which, staring at the camera, he declares himself a friend to women.
“I am pro-choice!!” It’s no use, lying liar. Rep Mike Levin will clean your clock. Nobody believes you. Others are doing the same. Other Republicans are trying desperately to manipulate women, to lie, to pretend to be their friends by pretending not to be the antichoice people that they are.
“I am pro choice.” That’s another Republican from California whose name is Irrelevant. It’s irrelevant because this will not work for them. It cannot. Look at them, these spineless little fish, swimming frantically away from their policies of human suffering. Suffering — suffrage.
The suffrage movement was so long ago, but it feels like yesterday to this writer in many ways. Who ever thought we’d be fighting for our beings in 2024? Not I. But you can see the win we’re about to get on our faces. You can see the passion, the imprints of times gone by, the WILL we have — wills of iron, and confidence that the GOP could never in a million years begin to understand.
This is because we hear the whispers of the female activists who came long before us, spurring us on and telling us to go forward in our activism, and so we do. The American women, the strong, the lovely, and the passionate, can never be broken because we learned our activism from the very best.
And so all this particular group of Republicans are doing is making fools of themselves. When they look into the cameras, lies spilling forth quickly from their lips, we know them. When they look at us, pretending to care, to understand our quirks, passions, lived experiences, and pain, we know them.
When they lie and try to pretend they are on our side, we know them. We know them for the liars that they are — and come to Roevember, , they will find to their deep dismay that NONE of us believed a damn word that they said. Donate now
