Hot Button Issue Which Should Never Have Become an Issue

First, two facts which cannot be denied by any person with common sense who faces reality. All religions are cults, and all governments are bad: some worse than others.

I have long made the claim that at least one half of all Americans are ignorant; not because they lack basic intelligence, but because they choose ignorance. It is too difficult for them to look at facts and make intelligent decisions based on the truth. This is why religions exist. Most people are sheep in need of a sheppard.

The only time professional politicians pretend to listen to the voting public is during an election year. They will say and do anything to remain in office. Washington politicians live lives of power and privilege incomparable to any other profession in our country. Their aides do all the work. They are far too busy campaigning and begging for contributions for their next election to perform the jobs for which they were elected.

When religious zealots and ambitious politicians unite, they intentionally create division with negative emotions including fear, and as fear grows, it always results in anger and eventually hatred.  

This is how a woman’s right to make decisions about her personal physical and mental health became a political issue.

Influenced by men who pretend to be Christians, but in fact are opportunistic fake Christians known as Evangelicals, right wing politicians began to call legal abortions murder. This is how the two sides on the issue were created: pro-life and pro-choice.

In 1981 Ronald Reagan revealed himself as a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a religious extremist. He read the polls and realized that our nation’s people were moving towards a more progressive agenda. However, if he and his party nurtured the prejudices of the weak-minded and uninformed, and created a division between them and more open-minded and free-thinking men and women, “Republicans” would have a new demographic. These men and women would vote for the former Grand Old Party when “hot button” issues became the major focus of their campaigns.

This situation was supported by the creation of Fox News on October 7, 1996. Right wing politicians now had their own propaganda machine lying for them 24 hours a day.

As it always does, issues based on emotion and not fact, the subject of abortion escalated into heated discussions and eventually violence. Doctors and nurses who worked at clinics serving women who experienced an unwanted or life-altering and possibly life-threatening pregnancy were murdered. The fact is, people were murdering other people to save lives. If this is not the stupidest rationale in history, I challenge you to find another more ridiculous situation such as “fighting wars for peace.”

Today’s men and women who call themselves “Republicans” have moved so far to the right, they have become the American Fascist Party. Here’s your proof.

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States gave federal protection to women seeking the end of an unwanted pregnancy. It was called Roe v Wade.

During Trump’s first term, Moscow Mitch McConnell maneuvered the malignant narcissist into making a decision supporting an issue which had become the focus of his entire failed career. The Supreme Court became politically biased in favor of fascist ideals with the addition of three totally unqualified and prejudiced justices, giving right wing politicians a 6-3 advantage.

On the 24^th of June, 2022, the second darkest day in America’s political history, this corrupt Court overturned a 49-year-old decision and moved our nation backwards into the dark days of the mid-twentieth century. All women lost one of their most important personal rights: to make decisions for themselves related to their child-bearing capabilities. No man should be allowed to take part in any discussion related to a woman’s body for the simple reason that they cannot in any way understand the difficulties faced by the fairer sex, when becoming pregnant is involved. It is very clear that no man can understand how difficult it is for a woman to consider the termination of a pregnancy.

The bottom line is our private lives should remain private. This is the most important right of every man and woman living in a free, democratic society. However, now that right wing politicians have become supporters of ending democracy and establishing a fascist regime, women’s rights have been removed from any discussion about our nation’s future.

I wake up feeling sad every morning since November 6, 2024. I am convinced that the election was rigged, and our corrupt government knows the truth. Regardless, the fact is that Trump and his fascist party are destroying the efforts of past presidents over the last nine decades, beginning with the people’s president, Frankling D. Roosevelt in 1933.

The great experiment, the dream of our Founding Fathers, is being demolished piece by piece, and no one is taking actions necessary to end the completion of Project 2025.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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