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maybe the one good thing Trump has done
Mar. 31st, 2016 07:55 am... is shine a light on the inherent hypocrisy and internal ill logic of various Republican policy positions developed over the past few decades.
I think what showed this more than anything were his ridiculous comments on punishing abortion and the women who seek them, in his town hall interview with Chris Matthews of MSNBC (props to Matthews, BTW, for continuing to push when Trump clearly wanted the matter to go away). A commentator on "Morning Joe" today correctly pointed out that Trump sounded like "somebody who was pro-choice trying to sound like he's not."
Honestly, if you put me in front of a camera or microphone and told me I had to pretend I wasn't pro-choice, I would have said the exact same things he did, to make an exaggerated point: Namely, that the GOP platform position on reproductive choice IS punishing women. Cruz and Kasich and these other anti-choicers who rode in afterward to denounce Trump and be all like "oh no, of course you shouldn't punish a woman who has an abortion, she's a victim too, blah blah ..."
Please tell me how wanting to make it legal to make an adult human go against their own self-interest and forcing them to undergo a major medical process if they don't want to isn't punishment in itself. Please tell me how forced pregnancy and childbirth and child-rearing isn't an economic issue for just one class of people (namely, poor women), that some politicians clearly must want to punish. Please tell me how having one standard for half the population that is not imposed on the other half isn't already a form of punishment.
In what probably looks like a bit of tactical genius, but is actually only a question that should have been being asked all along anytime "abortion" comes up, Matthews also asked Trump if he would punish the men who get women pregnant who have abortions, or who help them have abortions. Of course, the answer was "no." Again, this is what I would have said if you'd forced me to take the anti-choice stance, to illustrate the dumbness that surrounds the issue of trying to tell the major segment of the population what they can do with their hoo-hoos and associated organs in their free time. More than anything, I just imagine Republican politicians everywhere hearing Trump come off with all that last night and going, "NOOOOOO, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY IT OUT LOUD FOR EVERYONE TO HEAR, CHRIST AMIGHTY, MAN!"
Pfffft. ;-)
I think what showed this more than anything were his ridiculous comments on punishing abortion and the women who seek them, in his town hall interview with Chris Matthews of MSNBC (props to Matthews, BTW, for continuing to push when Trump clearly wanted the matter to go away). A commentator on "Morning Joe" today correctly pointed out that Trump sounded like "somebody who was pro-choice trying to sound like he's not."
Honestly, if you put me in front of a camera or microphone and told me I had to pretend I wasn't pro-choice, I would have said the exact same things he did, to make an exaggerated point: Namely, that the GOP platform position on reproductive choice IS punishing women. Cruz and Kasich and these other anti-choicers who rode in afterward to denounce Trump and be all like "oh no, of course you shouldn't punish a woman who has an abortion, she's a victim too, blah blah ..."
Please tell me how wanting to make it legal to make an adult human go against their own self-interest and forcing them to undergo a major medical process if they don't want to isn't punishment in itself. Please tell me how forced pregnancy and childbirth and child-rearing isn't an economic issue for just one class of people (namely, poor women), that some politicians clearly must want to punish. Please tell me how having one standard for half the population that is not imposed on the other half isn't already a form of punishment.
In what probably looks like a bit of tactical genius, but is actually only a question that should have been being asked all along anytime "abortion" comes up, Matthews also asked Trump if he would punish the men who get women pregnant who have abortions, or who help them have abortions. Of course, the answer was "no." Again, this is what I would have said if you'd forced me to take the anti-choice stance, to illustrate the dumbness that surrounds the issue of trying to tell the major segment of the population what they can do with their hoo-hoos and associated organs in their free time. More than anything, I just imagine Republican politicians everywhere hearing Trump come off with all that last night and going, "NOOOOOO, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY IT OUT LOUD FOR EVERYONE TO HEAR, CHRIST AMIGHTY, MAN!"
Pfffft. ;-)
