The Republican Party, once a proud proponent of limited government, has turned itself into a font of sexual innuendo and legal intrusion into the most intimate aspects of personal life. Protecting children from predators is a worthy aim, to be sure, but the GOP is obsessing about all aspects of sex. Why?First, it’s part of their culture war, and culture wars sell with voters (and the media) eager for conflict and titillation. A culture war over sex sells even better. It lets Republicans imply that Democrats are somehow on the side of sexual “deviants” who endanger the “natural order.”Also, by focusing on sex, Republicans can court both the evangelical right and the rightwing extreme QAnon vote (with its the loony “Pizzagate” conspiracy claim that Hillary Clinton was a pedophile).
Most importantly, a culture war over sex allows Republicans to sound faux populist without having to talk about the real sources of populist anger — corporate-induced inflation at a time of record corporate profits, profiteering and price gouging, monopolization, stagnant wages, union busting, soaring CEO pay, billionaires who have amassed $1.7 trillion during the pandemic but who pay a lower tax rate than the working class, and the flow of big money into the political campaigns of lawmakers who oblige by lowering taxes on the wealthy and big corporations and doling out corporate welfare.Oh, and by focusing on pedophilia, gender identity, gay people, and abortion, Republicans don’t have to talk about Trump and January 6.
- Robert Reich, April 7, 2022 - "Why Republicans are obsessed with pedophilia, gender identity, gay people, and abortion"
IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:05 am » wrote: ↑ On March 28, 2022, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill”.
Why did he call it the "anti-grooming" bill? One reason, and one reason only, so that he, and his supporters, and anybody else of his ilk, could call anyone who opposes his bill, "a pedophile."
No different from all the "pedophile" finger pointing in this ****.
IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:05 am » wrote: ↑ On March 28, 2022, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill”.
Why did he call it the "anti-grooming" bill? One reason, and one reason only, so that he, and his supporters, and anybody else of his ilk, could call anyone who opposes his bill, "a pedophile."
No different from all the "pedophile" finger pointing in this ****.

We need to keep pedophiles and perverts away from children. DeSantis gets it. You obviously don't. We don't want any of what YOU are selling.IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:05 am » wrote: ↑ On March 28, 2022, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill”.
Why did he call it the "anti-grooming" bill? One reason, and one reason only, so that he, and his supporters, and anybody else of his ilk, could call anyone who opposes his bill, "a pedophile."
No different from all the "pedophile" finger pointing in this ****.
any instintive brain can empathize to any mind following reasonable doubt to escape life in real time.Ike Bana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:05 am » wrote: ↑ On March 28, 2022, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill”.
Why did he call it the "anti-grooming" bill? One reason, and one reason only, so that he, and his supporters, and anybody else of his ilk, could call anyone who opposes his bill, "a pedophile."
No different from all the "pedophile" finger pointing in this ****.
and thank you for never having made a topical argument or spewed one of your **** opinions with anything behind it on this forum...ducky
Never forget...one minute to Wapner.Nostradamus'omh » 09 Mar 2023, 9:10 am » wrote: ↑ any instintive brain can empathize to any mind following reasonable doubt to escape life in real time.
Never forget what a mind is,
You do understand that the data shows that mental health professionals are among the least likely of Americans to be pedophiles or to commit child sexual abuse...as opposed to white christian American family men.Skans » 09 Mar 2023, 9:09 am » wrote: ↑ We need to keep pedophiles and perverts away from children. DeSantis gets it. You obviously don't. We don't want any of what YOU are selling.
Got it.POM » 09 Mar 2023, 9:07 am » wrote: ↑ My favorite sexual partner is my next door neighbor's eight year old daughter. No wait...she's my second favorite sexual partner...my favorite is their bitch German Shepherd.
Never watched it originally, reruns, redone.
IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:17 am » wrote: ↑My favorite sexual partner is my next door neighbor's eight year old daughter. No wait...she's my second favorite sexual partner...my favorite is their bitch German Shepherd.
Poor Ike. His support for indoctrinating children and pedophilia isn't going his way.IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:05 am » wrote: ↑ On March 28, 2022, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning kindergarten through third-grade public school teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity, calling it an “anti-grooming bill”.
Why did he call it the "anti-grooming" bill? One reason, and one reason only, so that he, and his supporters, and anybody else of his ilk, could call anyone who opposes his bill, "a pedophile."
No. I do not understand that. Not at all. In fact, I disagree with your claim.IkeBana » 09 Mar 2023, 9:15 am » wrote: ↑ You do understand that the data shows that mental health professionals are among the least likely of Americans to be pedophiles or to commit child sexual abuse...as opposed to white christian American family men.
Aren't mental health professionals the second highest group of professionals that commit suicide just under dentists?Skans » 09 Mar 2023, 9:46 am » wrote: ↑ No. I do not understand that. Not at all. In fact, I disagree with your claim.
Perhaps. I don't have anything to back up that claim, however.Nostradamus'omh » 09 Mar 2023, 9:48 am » wrote: ↑ Aren't mental health professionals the second highest group of professionals that commit suicide just under dentists?
Really? You aren't evolving as eternally separated as displaced here now accounting for each lifetme this species has left here now? I categorize by numbers of each generation gap, not race, creed, color, etc. Oops. Instinctive accuracy trumps social speculation until rule of law blocks it.Skans » 09 Mar 2023, 9:49 am » wrote: ↑ Perhaps. I don't have anything to back up that claim, however.
You are the one with the worthless opinions, dumbduck.
You are the one with the worthless opinions, dumbduck.
With absolutely zero evidence. You don't understand, then you disagree with what you don't understand.Skans » 09 Mar 2023, 9:46 am » wrote: ↑ No. I do not understand that. Not at all. In fact, I disagree with your claim.
Your opinions are worthy, why? Priceless how?Xavier_Onassis » 09 Mar 2023, 10:18 am » wrote: ↑ You are the one with the worthless opinions, dumbduck.