I’m bewildered by humanity these days, but especially about women. The other night, Rachel Maddow did a story on Moms for Liberty, a right wing group of women who oversaw the Sarasota school board for several years. They banned books and ruled about all the favorite right wing stuff like LBGQTs in sports, the way bathrooms were used etc. etc. By now,that drill is familiar to many of us.
They lost two of their seats to Democratic women in the primaries.
But who are these women? How were they so effectively brainwashed? How far down the rabbit hole did they fall, anyway?
I look at women who still support trump, talk to them, and I still don’t get it. What’s there to believe in? What has the orange monster done for improving your life? That of your kids? Your family? Nothing. Zero.Why have our expenses soared during this administration? Why are we now in what looks like another forever war?
So someone, please, explain it to me.
I asked a new AI about this and it came down to identity politics. I think it means that these women identify with a particular tribe. Great. But the question remains: WHY? Is it like a Jim Jones cult?
Today, it’s two months until the midterm elections. Best to vote in person this year since mail-in voting is in jeopardy. And if trump can’t control the post office, then he’ll probably declare a national emergency and cancel the election. And who’s going to stop him? The supreme court? The spineless republicans in congress? Ha.
If you get a chance, check out a substack called Caracas Chronicles. The author details what has happened to the country since the admin had dictator Maduro extracted. The Maduro regime is still in power because his VP, Delcy Rodriguez, is cozying up to trump, who is laying claim – or trying to – the country’s billions of barrels of oil. So it goes…
