Solidarity is the only way. I hope you'll take a look at what I'm building over at https://UTW.vote and launching on this Substack next week. I am planning to celebrate the 4th in the most quintessentially American way I can: with a grassroots movement, gathering the voices of an entire nation and using them to end a reign of tyranny. I hope you'll be there in my comments section when I do, because our nation needs voices like yours.
No matter how much gay rights have backslid, they are front and center as an issue compared to reproductive rights. Ever since Dobbs and the overturning of Roe v Wade, women have watched in horror, as their rights, health and very lives became increasingly at risk. To make things worse, public outrage has been muted, invisible, except for some success here in there in some states. At least the National Council of Jewish Women has come out strongly for reproducuctive rights as part of religious freedom. Still, compared to gay activism in general and Pride in particular, female reproductive rights is in the shadows.
The polling you cite is disconcerting at best. There has always been a clannishness since before independence from Britain, a fundamental distrust of those not conforming to whatever the perceived norm was. There had been much more recently a greater tolerance at least to the point of recognition that fundamental rights should not be restricted to straight white Christian men. And some grew complacent in their ability to share in those rights, whether or not others were included. There was a sense that many of us had that Jews did not become “white” until 1968 or a few years after.
Complacency is the enemy of security. And there are those in a position to demonize one group at a time, one after the other.
The poll only confirms what we see happening in media and in elections at all levels of government.
Franklin’s warning still resonates. If we do not hang together we shall surely all hang separately.
Solidarity is the only way. I hope you'll take a look at what I'm building over at https://UTW.vote and launching on this Substack next week. I am planning to celebrate the 4th in the most quintessentially American way I can: with a grassroots movement, gathering the voices of an entire nation and using them to end a reign of tyranny. I hope you'll be there in my comments section when I do, because our nation needs voices like yours.
No matter how much gay rights have backslid, they are front and center as an issue compared to reproductive rights. Ever since Dobbs and the overturning of Roe v Wade, women have watched in horror, as their rights, health and very lives became increasingly at risk. To make things worse, public outrage has been muted, invisible, except for some success here in there in some states. At least the National Council of Jewish Women has come out strongly for reproducuctive rights as part of religious freedom. Still, compared to gay activism in general and Pride in particular, female reproductive rights is in the shadows.
Well said
The polling you cite is disconcerting at best. There has always been a clannishness since before independence from Britain, a fundamental distrust of those not conforming to whatever the perceived norm was. There had been much more recently a greater tolerance at least to the point of recognition that fundamental rights should not be restricted to straight white Christian men. And some grew complacent in their ability to share in those rights, whether or not others were included. There was a sense that many of us had that Jews did not become “white” until 1968 or a few years after.
Complacency is the enemy of security. And there are those in a position to demonize one group at a time, one after the other.
The poll only confirms what we see happening in media and in elections at all levels of government.
Franklin’s warning still resonates. If we do not hang together we shall surely all hang separately.
Ah I knew there was a quote I was forgetting...