“Piety, Domesticity and Motherhood”
--Mid-19th Century American Male Attitude Toward Women
“Kinder, Kuche, Kirche” (“Children, Kitchen, Church”)
--The Nazi Party Program for Women
“Faith, Family, Fertility”
--The Republican Party Program for Women (2024)
Apple, meet tree.
Project 2025, the Trump/Vance/Republican master plan to transform America into an autocracy, reads like a dystopian, gothic horror novel. It is a right-wing fever dream made real, even though they deny its obvious connection to them now that the public has discovered it. Among many other appalling things, it is intended to suppress any and all aspirations to equality that women might harbor. An approximation of what it would mean for more than 50 percent of the U.S. population can be found in the status of women in mid–nineteenth century America, when women had no rights and were considered the property of their husbands.
Ladies, welcome to what a second Trump presidency has in store for you. The cult that has replaced the Republican Party even wants to establish a pregnancy monitoring system. It has come a long, long way from the party that, virtually since its founding, advocated that government must not inject itself into individual’s lives. Cat-lady disparager, James David Vance, even wants to get rid of no-fault divorce.
Big surprise: the authors of this section of Project 2025, the neo-fascist playbook, were almost all men. They yearn for the days when men were men and women loved it.
This most recent manifestation of the Republican program to subdue women could have come straight from: (1) the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, who view all women as a fifth column and not even second-class citizens; and/or (2) the Nazi gender laws that viewed women as nothing more than procreation machines, provided the products of same were racially pure “Aryan” children. The Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls), the female equivalent of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth), was intended to prepare German girls for “careers” as wives and mothers. The Lebensborn program (1936) established birthing facilities throughout the land where young women, often teenagers, were mated to SS men in order to increase the Aryan population.
There was one exception: Several thousand women were allowed out of the home to serve as concentration and death camp guards.
Resisters were branded “biologically inferior” and hundreds of thousands were forcibly sterilized while thousands of others were incarcerated in the camps. Others were shot.
It was The Handmaid’s Tale come to life.
If Trump and Vance win this election, women will lose many of their rights. They will face being rounded up and imprisoned for crossing state lines for medical help. Young women will be trained in schools for their roles as wives and mothers. A special tax will be imposed on women who opt out of motherhood. Rape and incest will be just other means of procreation. Birth control could become illegal. The same for in-vitro fertilization.
Republicans have already signaled their intentions:
Yet, they claim they are “pro-family.”
Trump and Vance appear to be direct descendants of the earliest proto-humans who came down out of the trees into the African savannas. These distant ancestors made their women sleep at the cave entrance so that when a cave bear approached and disemboweled them, their shrieks served as an early warning that the men best take cover deeper in the cave.
Trump wants to grab women by the p**sy. Vance and Project 2025 want to grab them by the throat.
Vote Republican, ladies, if you enjoy being held in bondage. This may in fact be your last chance to vote. Trump just told us that at a recent Nuremberg-style rally.
Dick Hermann
August 26, 2024
--Mid-19th Century American Male Attitude Toward Women
“Kinder, Kuche, Kirche” (“Children, Kitchen, Church”)
--The Nazi Party Program for Women
“Faith, Family, Fertility”
--The Republican Party Program for Women (2024)
Apple, meet tree.
Project 2025, the Trump/Vance/Republican master plan to transform America into an autocracy, reads like a dystopian, gothic horror novel. It is a right-wing fever dream made real, even though they deny its obvious connection to them now that the public has discovered it. Among many other appalling things, it is intended to suppress any and all aspirations to equality that women might harbor. An approximation of what it would mean for more than 50 percent of the U.S. population can be found in the status of women in mid–nineteenth century America, when women had no rights and were considered the property of their husbands.
Ladies, welcome to what a second Trump presidency has in store for you. The cult that has replaced the Republican Party even wants to establish a pregnancy monitoring system. It has come a long, long way from the party that, virtually since its founding, advocated that government must not inject itself into individual’s lives. Cat-lady disparager, James David Vance, even wants to get rid of no-fault divorce.
Big surprise: the authors of this section of Project 2025, the neo-fascist playbook, were almost all men. They yearn for the days when men were men and women loved it.
This most recent manifestation of the Republican program to subdue women could have come straight from: (1) the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, who view all women as a fifth column and not even second-class citizens; and/or (2) the Nazi gender laws that viewed women as nothing more than procreation machines, provided the products of same were racially pure “Aryan” children. The Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls), the female equivalent of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth), was intended to prepare German girls for “careers” as wives and mothers. The Lebensborn program (1936) established birthing facilities throughout the land where young women, often teenagers, were mated to SS men in order to increase the Aryan population.
There was one exception: Several thousand women were allowed out of the home to serve as concentration and death camp guards.
Resisters were branded “biologically inferior” and hundreds of thousands were forcibly sterilized while thousands of others were incarcerated in the camps. Others were shot.
It was The Handmaid’s Tale come to life.
If Trump and Vance win this election, women will lose many of their rights. They will face being rounded up and imprisoned for crossing state lines for medical help. Young women will be trained in schools for their roles as wives and mothers. A special tax will be imposed on women who opt out of motherhood. Rape and incest will be just other means of procreation. Birth control could become illegal. The same for in-vitro fertilization.
Republicans have already signaled their intentions:
- They want to ban abortion without exception. Surely you are not gullible enough to believe Trump’s lies as he runs away from the consequences of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade now that he sees how deeply unpopular it is.
- They voted against renewing the child tax credit extension. Being mired in poverty is a positive in GOP circles.
- They oppose funding for daycare, pre-school, kindergarten, and free breakfasts and lunches for children. Meanness and cruelty for their own sake.
- They oppose paid maternity leave and pre- and post-natal care.
- They want to end Obamacare.
- They oppose any controls on guns despite guns being the leading cause of death of children.
- And so on….
Yet, they claim they are “pro-family.”
Trump and Vance appear to be direct descendants of the earliest proto-humans who came down out of the trees into the African savannas. These distant ancestors made their women sleep at the cave entrance so that when a cave bear approached and disemboweled them, their shrieks served as an early warning that the men best take cover deeper in the cave.
Trump wants to grab women by the p**sy. Vance and Project 2025 want to grab them by the throat.
Vote Republican, ladies, if you enjoy being held in bondage. This may in fact be your last chance to vote. Trump just told us that at a recent Nuremberg-style rally.
Dick Hermann
August 26, 2024
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