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The Party of "Less Government" Wants To Govern Every Aspect Of Our Lives
22 Apr 2022 5:07 am
The American South is punishing 'crimes of thought' and restricting 'freedom of movement' - Alternet.org
[There is a relationship] ... "direct and indirect, between Russia and the Republican Party, the American south’s dominant party.
That relationship ranges in degree from passively allowing Russian operatives to sabotage a Democratic candidate for president to coordinating to spread the Big Lie (thus seeding the ground for a failed coup d’etat) to cheering in unison its invasion of democratic Ukraine.
There does exist a Trump-Putin axis in the Republican Party, as Jamie Raskin said. But obscuring that reality for most Americans, I think, is their belief in America being one country.
...states in [the South] are acting like they are sovereign nations, as if reifying a wholly imagined confederacy of the mind and spirit....
Tennessee, Missouri and others have nullified federal gun laws. Mississippi, Florida and others have nearly totally outlawed access to abortion. Texas is now doing its own border security and immigration enforcement. Next is regulating the free movement of citizens.
Missouri and Texas are debating bills to restrict out-of-state travel of pregnant people seeking abortions in states where access is legal.
Stopping nonwhite people from crossing the border and taking up residence, terrorizing nonwhite people already here at gunpoint, forcing white women to repopulate their states and preventing white women from traveling “abroad” – altogether these are the things nations do as they slouch toward a totalitarian future. Only we’re not talking about nations.
We’re talking about states within a region within a nation that are acting like nations, thus belying the belief in America as one."
The New Anti-Choice Weapon: Trapping Women in Anti-Choice States
[There is a relationship] ... "direct and indirect, between Russia and the Republican Party, the American south’s dominant party.
That relationship ranges in degree from passively allowing Russian operatives to sabotage a Democratic candidate for president to coordinating to spread the Big Lie (thus seeding the ground for a failed coup d’etat) to cheering in unison its invasion of democratic Ukraine.
There does exist a Trump-Putin axis in the Republican Party, as Jamie Raskin said. But obscuring that reality for most Americans, I think, is their belief in America being one country.
...states in [the South] are acting like they are sovereign nations, as if reifying a wholly imagined confederacy of the mind and spirit....
Tennessee, Missouri and others have nullified federal gun laws. Mississippi, Florida and others have nearly totally outlawed access to abortion. Texas is now doing its own border security and immigration enforcement. Next is regulating the free movement of citizens.
Missouri and Texas are debating bills to restrict out-of-state travel of pregnant people seeking abortions in states where access is legal.
Stopping nonwhite people from crossing the border and taking up residence, terrorizing nonwhite people already here at gunpoint, forcing white women to repopulate their states and preventing white women from traveling “abroad” – altogether these are the things nations do as they slouch toward a totalitarian future. Only we’re not talking about nations.
We’re talking about states within a region within a nation that are acting like nations, thus belying the belief in America as one."
The New Anti-Choice Weapon: Trapping Women in Anti-Choice States