The Supreme Court has just decided that if companies really really mean it, it’s ok for them to decide they won’t provide coverage for birth control for slutty slutty slutbag women, but hey, there was no real difference between Bush and Gore, right?
Do me a favor: if you voted for Nader in 2000, don’t let me know. I don’t care where you lived, I don’t care what you were thinking. Politics is real life. If you wanted to dream, you should have been a theater major. I’m just better off not knowing.
Meanwhile, the Republican dream of the New Feudalism continues. No wonder they don’t talk about jobs sitting on this kind of real unemployment – it’s a buyer’s marker for labor. Easy to piously declare “well any woman that doesn’t like it can find a job somewhere else” – but when real unemployment persists in double digits, it’s not that simple, is it? And employers get to revert to the kind of full control over their employees’ lives we saw in the company towns of the deep South. And it all comes full circle.
Individual freedom is for rich people. If you work for somebody else, or have the temerity to have a vagina, shut up and get back to work. That’s the new American dream. If you don’t like it, lace up your boots and start punching back. Hard. If this is enough to keep the GOP out of the Senate another two years, then we can at least make lemonade from the biggest sour lemon of the term.