DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

dagSPIN: What will they say about it all now?

1. Right Wing: “Torture works”; “Support the Troops”; “Protect the Homeland”. Jingoism, Jingoism, Jingoism. Several bills on the legislative agenda that, if passed, will expand the powers afforded the government in the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. The right wing will use the renewed interest in Osama bin Laden and push for further exceptionalist protectionism.  It’s that simple.  This will include more fervent pro-corporatist, anti-left behavior in the long-term.

2. Conservative Pundits: Rendition, secret prisons and torture works and the left wing is responsible for politicizing war on terror. As the links show, Michelle Malkin is already all over this.They will push a little to rehabilitate Bush’s presidency, but not much and not for long.

3. Liberal Pundits: “Bush didn’t care, Obama did”. Obama is super-popular and kicking ass.

4. Left Wing: “John Kerry was right.” Basically, we do not need to invade countries to engage terrorists with our military. We need good intelligence, to arrest the leaders of terrorist organizations and to try them in our courts.

5. Libertarians: Libertarians will use this to try to promote their newest cause, a possible strong Ron-Paul-for-President campaign.  Events like this permit American libertarians to promote an anti-war stance that offers good cover for its unpopular, pro-corporate agenda. They’ll use a Ron Paul campaign to recruit young people who love to hate the state.

thegayrepublican:

This is the most stupid thing i have ever seen.

NO NO NO Gay Republican NO.

The GOP is using women, images of women, women’s health, reproductive health, and other nasty feminist things as tools to cause a stir amongst its vocal minority the socially conservative far-right wing motivating them to picket, protest, hand out images of aborted fetuses, and scream and yell about the immoral left and feminism gone awry. This pisses off the activist left. Much social debate occurs, the media picks the story up and runs with it.

Meanwhile the GOP writes bills, riders, amendments, and lengthy, complex legislative proposals meant to cut the heart out of social welfare programs to cover its tax and regulatory reform for the wealthiest Americans and their corporations.

You’re correct: it isn’t a war on women. It’s a war against the hardest working, most oppressed, most needy, youngest, oldest, and most deserving Americans using the images of women on behalf of the wealthiest, least needy Americans. It’s a war on most of us, not women, making it a hateful and sexist culture war because it focuses on one aspect of women’s rights when so much more is at stake. You’d have to be a crazy anti-woman zealot to believe the GOP is really out to get women; I mean, really want the GOP to defund something awesome like Planned Parenthood that helps so many for so little and to believe that is something good for the GOP to do, among other social reforms it’s pushing.  But, you know, the GOP doesn’t give a shit about women’s rights, women’s health, women’s issues, and how these issues affect all of us.

In other words, the GOP uses women and specific health issues in a horrible and misleading fashion. Just like the Republican Party uses homosexuals. And I’m not just talking on holidays and airport restrooms, honk honk.