It's an election year, so it's time for the Left to play the 'women only vote Republican because their husbands/boyfriends/dads make them' card. Again.
It's exhausting and, frankly, sexist.
It's also demonstrably untrue.
Such as this:
Every time I’ve phone-banked for a Democratic candidate I’ve been cursed at by men refusing to put their wives on the phone. Every person I know who knocked doors for Hillary Clinton had stories of flustered women who lowered their voices to say they “couldn’t talk right now.” https://t.co/a0vhFjjTBt
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) August 8, 2024
I'm someone's daughter, I've been married and I've dated men. The one thing that never, ever happened in any of those situations? Neither my late father, nor my ex, nor my boyfriend told me who to vote for and they never stopped me from speaking to pollsters. But this is how the Left thinks.
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The above is -- at best -- a fever dream of Leftists who have some pretty twisted political fantasies, frankly.
But what it really is is an exposé into how the Left views women. When they can define what 'woman' means, that is.
They believe women should have one driving political interests: abortion.
And because the Democratic Party is on record as endorsing abortion at any time, for any reason, at any stage of pregnancy, they believe women owe them their allegiance and their votes.
When they're not reducing us to our most basic anatomy or biological functions -- remember when Rachel Levin, the assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services and a man called women 'egg producers'? -- they are demanding we ignore the other concerns we may have in our lives and kowtow before the altar of abortion.
And thank them for it.
You know what women, myself included, are actually worried about?
I'll give you a hint: it's not abortion.
It's the economy. It's wondering if we'll be able to afford groceries next week. Or if our rent will go up. It's looking at the price of gas continue to remain well above where it was when Joe Biden took office. It's seeing everything become more expensive while incomes remain stagnant. Women make up a significant portion of the 39% of American adults who worry about making ends meet in this economy. Credit card debt is at all-time highs.
It's illegal immigration. It's wondering if our daughters will end up like Laken Riley, or Jocelyn Nungray, who was 12-years-old when she was raped and murdered by two illegal immigrants. Or if our sister (or ourselves) will end up like mother-of-five Rachel Morin, who suffered the same fate. Or if our husband/son/brother will be killed like Indiana Colts player Edwin Jackson.
It's the cost of healthcare, which -- contrary to the promise of Obamacare -- has gotten exponentially more expensive.
It's jobs. The jobs report numbers have been revised down 10 of the last 14 months, and July's jobs numbers were abysmally bad. Unemployment shot up to 4.3%, and homelessness is on the rise even among the employed. Millions of Americans are working multiple jobs.
It's the Biden administration's re-write of Title IX, which puts men in women's locker rooms and on their daughter's sports teams. It takes away scholarship opportunities and athletic records and achievements. It exposes their daughters/sisters/nieces to potentially life-altering injuries at the hands of a man.
These are the issues women care about, because we're complex individuals and not the caricatures the Left imagines we are.
But the Left cannot run on these issues. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz don't have a plan for the economy, welcome illegal immigrants with open arms, will make healthcare even more expensive by making it 'free', damage the job market further, and embrace the transgender activist agenda.
That's why they've gone all in on the topic of abortion.
And they cannot fathom that women might care about issues other than killing our unborn children, or that we might not vote for Democrats because other issues are more important to us. They're voted for Kamala Harris because of abortion, so all women should think the same way.
It's also projection. Spend a few moments on X telling the Left you're a woman voting for any Republican and watch them melt down faster than the Nazis' faces in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' They get downright nasty and abusive. If anyone would force a woman to vote a certain way, it's them.
That's why they make up these asinine stories about men stopping women from talking Democratic pollsters. Women can't possibly make that decision for themselves, they think, so eeeevvvviillll men must be forcing them to do so.
