I had a discussion today with someone who was trying to convince me of how awesome Ron Paul is. I attempted to tell him why I don't like his proposed governmental structure and why I don't think it'll work or is a good idea, and he was actually someone receptive but then turned into the "your a commie! You want us all to die" guy. Which is the same fucking thing you hear from right wing conservatives whenever you aren't budging to their opinion. Usually they aren't so long lasting in their argument though. So much respect for not immediately calling me a cunt or a slut because I told him I'm pro choice.
But in the end we ended up with him saying I wanted a dictatorship, and I said that we had to end our conversation because he was just making random assertions with no basis in fact and there was no point in arguing with someone who already had their picture of who I was in their head.
Let me start out by saying, I am not into dictatorships. I'm not entirely sure how me saying you need oversight could be construed as saying that. When I think of oversight I think of people checking on people who are also held accountable by other people. I don't think of one dude making all the decisions without question or push back.
But more importantly, we talked about states rights vs federal rights. I think the problem with arguing with people about this is that it's just a fundamental difference in how people see the world. Some people think the federal government should play no role in their lives, and other people, people like me, think that there is definitely a place for a federal government.
To me, the place of the federal government is to make sure that everyone plays fair, and that when things go wrong, they can provide a safety net. If states like Oklahoma, Georgia, South Dakota, North Dakota, Texas, Arizona, etc. want to make it so that a woman who has a miscarriage (medically known as a spontaneous abortion) they SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS! This is a complete misunderstanding of human anatomy and science and is just fucking awful and scary. But states, like those previously mentioned, would. They would make having a miscarriage, or an abortion, or getting birth control, illegal.
Now I shouldn't even have to defend myself as a women against these laws in this fucking day and age, but for some reason I do. This country has a large number of what seems like a growing group of science hating (or maybe just not understanding) people who think that only sluts are raped (and if you use birthcontrol - automatic slut) and the only reason for abortion is because you want to murder babies. Well there are a lot of reasons for abortion and for birth control. Some women will die if they have a baby. In Ron Paul's interview with Piers Morgan, he said only women who were honest raped (I'm not going to bother looking up the whole quote because you can do it on your own if you don't remember this interview) should have the option of possibly getting an abortion, and not even abortion but like morning after pill. Like if you go to the hospital right after being honestly raped (like because women usually lie about being raped right? but I actually think he is referring to like hardcore tie down knock out rape, and is trying to say date rape or some less violent version like coersion isn't rape) then you can get a plan b or morning after pill. But, and here's a thought, what if you are really scared, or you somehow can't just go to the hospital because like...you don't have insurance and some hospitals won't even let you in the door without insurance? So then you are fucked and you are forced to have a baby?
Now I'm pro-choice. I believe it's none of my fucking business if someone else doesn't want to have a baby and they are pregnant for some reason or other. Rape or not. But I understand that religious people sometimes believe that it's life. Well, these are the people that get on my nerves, not because I don't think they have brains but they just aren't fucking using them. These are the science deniers. First off, no one is saying that abortion is fun, or a type of birth control. Abortion is hard, expensive and traumatizing for most women. But pro-choice people understand that there will always be need for abortion services. Guess what, not everyone is religious and believes it's a life. And guess what? Sometimes there are other factors that make having a child a risk. And guess what?!!! Some people know that they would make terrible parents, or they are not ready to have children yet, and they also understand that there are already too many children out there who are looking for homes and adoption is just putting another child out there when there are already so many who need adopting.
So anyhow, I don't really want to talk about Ron Paul anymore because I'm sort of burned out on the issue. I'll just say, I think that his positions on issues that I care about are bad enough that I could never be swayed to vote for him.
But my point here, is more that the people who defend him, don't even know what his policies would do to this country. They don't understand at all how much damage his policies would cause. Now I'm not saying that he could enact them all as president. They don't really have that much power. But I do think he could do some major damage. I just wish we had some better candidates at all. The republicans are all insanely anti-woman and pro-corperation and Obama has enacted some really fucked up shit. Like NDAA. And I am giving him credit because he's had the whole republican congress pushing back against every move he makes. But a lot of those moves have been just horrible. Deep sea drilling. Even after the oil spill he is pushing that. And now Fracking. I hate having a two party system. It makes voting really depressing sometimes.
So rich white dudes. They aren't women, they aren't black or latino or asian. They really don't understand.
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