Republican women, please take note

Did you know this?

Do you want these people in power?

I am a man, and this shit is offensive to me, how can you still belong to this group? If not for you, think of  your daughters, your sisters daughters. Can you bring yourself to condemn them to the horror the the Republicans will create for women?

Think about it. Your body belongs to YOU

The Power of YOU

Up here in the Great White North we are having our own political nightmare, in the form of Steven Harper. Some time ago he said something to the effect that he would make Canada unrecognisable to the outside world. Well, he is accomplishing that quite effectively.

At the last Canadian Federal Election, the party he leads managed to get a very strong majority of the seats required in the House of Commons. I will not go into the Robocall scandal or any of the other crap that was done during that election, only to say that close to 60% of the registered voters made it to the polls. Where were the other 40%? Why did you not go out and vote. It is your duty to make your voice heard.

Now Canada is stuck with Harper and what is beginning to look like a dictatorship. He has pushed through the infamous Omnibus Budget, and through his majority, made it impossible for any contrary voices to be heard or acted on. He has made it legal to have torture used and acted on here in Canada. He has pushed through the acquisition of the F35 fighter jets, an aircraft that hasn't even been built yet, as the next great step in keeping Canada strong. This is only a partial list of what has happened and will continue to happen unless he is stopped.

Steven Harper is a public servant, that is all he is. He works for YOU, not the other way around. YOU have the power to fire him, YOU have the power to stop him. He must be stopped before he makes Canada no better than some third world country with a puppet dictator. Stand up and be heard those of you living in Conservative ridings. Demand a recall of the member who speaks for YOU. Make that person accountable for his or her actions and if they do not act in your interest, force a by election. It is your right to do so. Get that person fired and vote in someone who will listen to YOU. There are 166 Conservative ridings in Canada, if only 13 of them change, it will make a difference. Harper will lose the majority and will have to listen to the people he SERVES.

13 ridings, that is all it will take. Everyone stand up and be counted. Steven Harper is our SERVANT, we are the ones who are supposed to be in control. Stand up and take control back from him before he takes the choice away from you.

The Republicans Are Coming

This year is another great one for the circus that lives below the 49th parallel of North America - it is election year. The two great parties of the people and for the people are squaring off against one other, beating their collective chests and saying "See how great it would be with me running the show!"

 For this election, we have in the Democrats corner the President, Barack Obama. From all that I have seen of him and about him, he appears to be a man of his word. He has really worked his butt off over this past 4 years, he has actually done something real, several actually. He repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, he managed to save the auto industry from complete ruin and he managed to bring in a national health care bill to allow more people access to decent health care. On the negative side of the President, he is still  haunted by the whispers that he isn't a natural born citizen and he relates to the great evil that is been named Islam.

In the other corner, we have Mitt Romney for the Republicans. He appears to be a man of his word as well, thou the value of those words seems to be negligible at best. He also appears to be a very rich man, thou it is very hard to accurately asses that as a great deal of his personal wealth appears to be in off shore bank accounts. He is a very charismatic man, he would have to be. The fact that there are women in the US who will vote for him is proof of that.

The republican party has just recently made its polices clear over the past week and one of those policies or goals is to put women into their place. Yes, I know I ranted on this last week but it really bears more energy. The only question I really want to examine is why is this still an issue? Why are women still second class citizens in one of the most developed country on Earth? Why do women pay more for health care, are they denied prompt and appropriate health care, do they perform the same work as men and get paid less for it? Why is a woman who chooses to stay at home and raise her children considered not to have been working? Why are less than 10% of all rapist given any sort of jail time when every one who is raped given a life time sentence by the "justice system".

I ask to every woman in the US, how can you look at yourself in the mirror and vote for a man who will continue and add to this cycle of violence to you. To your Mothers, your Sisters, your Daughters. And to every man, who was the person who held you when you were a child? Who was the person who kisses your knee when you skinned it? Don't let the Mitt Romney continue to push that person to the back of the bus. Women don't need special treatment, special rules, they need to be treated the same. That is all they want.

To The Republican Women of the US

Did you know that the party you support activity hates you? Did you know that they want complete and total control of your body? Are you okay with the thought that some well to do white male is going to make you a second class citizen? You don't think so?  

According to CNN, "Republicans drafting their party's official policy platform on Tuesday ratified a call for a Constitutional ban on abortion that makes no exceptions for rape or incest.  The party's official stance on abortion was approved after just a few minutes of discussion. The language in the platform must be voted on before the full Republican Convention next week, though Republicans say it is all but certain to pass."

No exception for rape or incest and it took these white males just a few minutes to stuff you to the back of the bus where you belong. 

How is it possible that any woman out there can vote Republican? How can you look at yourselves in the mirror and believe you are a citizen of the US, with all the rights and privileges that entails, when  you are letting these rich white men decide what is the right thing for you, or your 13 year old daughter who has been raped by her father for the past 3 years - and no, don't come back with incest isn't rape. 

Being pregnant is a huge thing to happen to anyone. The woman's body is changed in so many ways science hasn't classified them all yet. Not every woman is ready or able to go through childbirth. That is a fact of life, not everyone can do this. For some women, childbirth presents a very real danger of physical harm to the point of death - the Republican Party will to condemn those women to whatever fate awaits them. 

There are people out there who feel abortions for any reason are wrong; fine, it is your right to make that decision for yourself. You do not have the right to make that choice for his wife, her daughter, the kid down the street, or anyone.

Ladies of the US, are you going to let this happen to you and your daughters and sisters and mothers?