... because of the deficit to enrich the oligarchy, Repugs need 60, not 50 + Pence
White Men and Republicans Don't Think Domestic Violence Is All That Important
What will it take for white conservative men to start caring about violence against women?
despite the clear connection between violence at home and mass violence against the public, plenty of Americans—
especially many white and Republican men
—don’t see domestic violence as an issue of high importance.
A new PRRI study asked Americans whether they think domestic violence is a critical issue. Among all racial demographics, women were far more likely than men to answer in the affirmative. Fifty percent of women said domestic violence is a critical issue to them, versus about one-third (36 percent) of men.
Broken down politically,
Republican men are the least interested in domestic violence (33 percent) and
Democratic women are the most (57 percent).
The trend corresponds to domestic violence as it’s been addressed in government.
High-ranking leaders in recent years who have been most active around combating the problem are almost always Democrats, like Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
As Amanda Marcotte of Salon writes, “Domestic violence is political because
the ideology that drives it—that men are superior to women and have the right to control and dominate them—is political
...It's the at ude that drives the war on reproductive rights.”
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...estic-violence
The Swine of Conservatism
But this week our era of exposure has reminded us that cultural conservatism has its own distinctive swine.
professional Christian Roy Moore, who is credibly alleged to have spent his thirties pursuing high school girls with the “I get older, they stay the same age” gusto of Matthew McConaughey’s character in “Dazed and Confused,”
One type is what you might call the rotten patriarch. This is the man who depends on the trappings of spiritual or familial authority to exploit the young and weak, shame them into silence, and pre-emptively discredit them.
The rotten patriarch might be anyone from a handsy pastor or a lecherous pillar of the community to the leader of a sect or religious order. And in the defenses of Moore from various Alabama Republicans you can see the way conservative impulses protect this kind of figure — both in the suggestion that a man of his religious reputation should be trusted over his accusers, and in the risible invocation of Biblical examples to defend an older man’s lust for a 14-year-old girl.
there is the burrower, the networker, the ins utionalist — the predator who embeds himself within a hierarchical system that protects him because it wants to protect itself.
Many Catholic priest-abusers fit this pattern.
Their clerical authority didn’t always keep them from getting chased out of parishes. But they were networked with other predators who helped them skate through to the next assignment, and the larger ecclesiastical en y saw its own self-protection as more important than their punishment.
Then finally there is the serial repenter — the creep who relies on the promise of forgiveness to keep his place and his powers and his opportunities to prey again.
Biblical precedents are often invoked in the predator’s defense.
Didn’t King David sleep around?
Doesn’t every saint have a past, every sinner a future?
All good Christian wisdom
But still there is enough that’s unique about conservative styles of predation to draw some lessons for tradition-oriented cultures and communities.
Some cultural conservatives, in evangelical Christianity especially, combine
a belief in male headship in churches and families with a “boys will be boys and girls shouldn’t tempt them” at ude toward sex.
evangelicals, who decided with Donald Trump and may decide with Roy Moore that in the war against secular liberalism, they simply can’t afford to police the morals of their leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/o...er=rss&emc=rss
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-12-2017 at 03:11 PM.
cuz Alabama
who's giving them a pass especially with hastert? yuck! i say, anyone found to be a pedo, in or out of politics, should be shot dead. as for sexual harassment, take it to the courts. hastert was a devil among us all and those that kept his dirty secret should be where he is at now, in the ground buried!
nah, you just use your passive aggressive runaround speech to try and peg me as such. i'm neither right wing nor left. both suck ass and those who cling to either political ideology are the nut jobs.
too bad they're the ill informed. not my fault most people want to be in the dark and hide their heads in the sand. whether said people know or don't know of weiner is irrelevant because he was high up on HRC's inner circle. if that's her inner circle then i wonder what she's into too.
you insert djt's name into your reply hoping and wishing you had something on the man. very very sad. just scream RUSSIA, bug your eyes out, and claim everyone is a white supremacist and you'll be closer to that party you associate yourself with.
Could we see a few more tweets? That's what's going to turn this around.
lol koriwhat, Republican apologist
Who thinks this can be turned around? Lol it's Alabama it's over. As soon as the ballot was printed with the R next to his name it was over
46% Jones 42% pedo
Don't get your hopes up. Same thing happened after access Hollywood then they "came home" https://www.google.com/search?q=repu...obile&ie=UTF-8
Maybe I'm a moron but I think Jones has zero chance
Alabama Evangelicals more likely to support Roy Moore after child molestation accusations
Nearly 40 percent of Evangelical Christians in Alabama say they're now more likely to vote for Roy Moore after multiple allegations that he molested children, even as voters across the historically red state now seem to be punishing Moore for his past actions, a new poll shows.
A plurality of evangelicals — 37 percent — described themselves as more likely to support Moore
because of recent sexual assault allegations levied against him,
while only 28 percent were less likely to do so. Thirty-four percent of the supposedly devout Christians said that the allegations reported last week in the Washington Post made no difference in their support for Moore.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ala...e+Raw+Story%29
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-12-2017 at 05:12 PM.
They already have their plan by saying “if proven”. They’ll act horrified, let this thing blow over, vote for Moore, and defend it by saying “it was never proven!”
how so? explain instead of just throwing mud and calling names like the left loves to do constantly because their bs holds no weight.
Pedo Roy is still going to win.
Donald will weigh in fully upon his return.
You.
Are a nut.
In all fairness they probably just didn’t understand the question....this is Alabama after all
another poll? said 37% would vote Moore BECAUSE of the statutory rape claim
"Hey guys, talking on a message board is pointless."
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