Abortion, Men's Bodies and the GOP
I have written extensively on how the anti-choice movement is really about controlling female sexuality - their bodies - rather than protecting life, because they are unwilling to enact a decent minimum wage and child tax credit. To be adequate, such a credit would be high enough to end the need for child support.
This also affects men's sexuality and their bodies, as well as the economic rights of women. Unless a man is willing to work, they don't want him to have sex. If a man fathers a child, they insist he work. Indeed, the child support system will jail him if he does not.
They want him to work at the lowest possible wage. They would not even have a minimum wage if they thought they had the votes. They certainly do not want him to have the right to collective bargaining or rights in the workplace.
Their preference is no government interference in the workplace. As the capitalist workplace is authoritarian, men must comply or their children will starve. If he demands union representation, the capitalists will fire and blacklist him. As long as references are required and checked, blacklisting is a real thing.
Because they would force men to work, they prefer women not work. Working women would their patriarchy.
When men do work, capitalists want the workers to accept the wage offered or what management can negotiate. If the worker is creative, the authoritarian capitalist insists that, by being paid, the worker gives up all intellectual property to the owner or shareholders. They buy the minds, as well as the bodies, of both women and men.
In practice, most. capitalist shareholders receive a "normal profit.". This means that the return shareholder can expect is just high enough to keep them from selling their shares at a loss.
CEO compensation includes abnormal shareholding, including stock options, celebrity level salaries and golden parachutes. Whatever they can get directors, usually their cronies, to agree to. Any cost savings become bonuses.
What does all this authoritarian compensation buy? Republican and Neoliberal elected officials and the masses in the pro-life/pro-Trump (pro-Putin) movement.
So, it is not only women's bodies the pro-life movement wants control over. They want men's bodies, minds and souls and the soul of the nation. They want good moral behavior in the bedroom and compliance at work. The pro-life movement is national authoritarianism.
If you, dear reader, are pro-life and disagree that you want authoritarianism, then support Build Back Better, raise the minimum wage and support union rights.
Of course, quite a few of you agree with the authoritarian capitalist world I have described. I have spoken online with enough if you to know this. Admit it, so that the nation knows what it is voting for in November. Own your vision and make sure your voters know what they are getting (which is essentially Putinism).
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