Thank you, Charlie. This was a great year end review. And thank you and everybody at the Bulwark, including the readers, for showing me that a Northeast liberal like me and a Mideast conservative like you have so much in common. In this age of tribalism, I’m proud to count the people at the Bulwark as part of my tribe.
Thank you, Charlie. This was a great year end review. And thank you and everybody at the Bulwark, including the readers, for showing me that a Northeast liberal like me and a Mideast conservative like you have so much in common. In this age of tribalism, I’m proud to count the people at the Bulwark as part of my tribe.
A couple of thoughts:
On fusion - a tremendous accomplishment, but this puts us nowhere near the finish line. I doubt most of us reading this will live to see commercial fusion power plants. However, we’ve made tremendous progress in many areas of clean energy production over the past few years. While it’s not enough to keep pace with government subsidies for oil here in the US, expanded use of coal in China and India and deforestation in Brazil, it does give us a glimmer of hope.
On Dobbs - I’ve always been pro choice. I’ve never put a lot of thought into it, it seemed a personal issue where the government had no place and a women’s issue where I had no place. I understood that people were pro-life for religious reasons and never paid much mind to those that said men in the pro-life movement wanted to control women.
The reaction on the right to Dobbs opened my eyes. First was the case of the 10 year old rape victim who had to be taken to another state to terminate her pregnancy. Aside from the cruelty toward the child, the efforts to prosecute the doctors involved, and Right wing medias’ attempts to discredit the story clearly showed an effort to portray the rape victim as the criminal.
Multiple stories of Doctors being afraid to properly treat etopic pregnancies and those afraid to properly clean out a uterus after a miscarriage out of fear of prosecution are things that never would have crossed my mind before this decision. The fervor with which Republicans at the state level are pushing punitive measures against not only women but young girls gives meaning to the term “forced birth”. I no longer consider this a women’s issue.. It’a human rights issue that we all must work to protect.
On TFG - Of course he belongs in jail. But I fear one or two MAGA morons will cause a hung jury and that wish will go unfulfilled. Under my reduced expectations, all I want to see in ‘23 is a perp walk. I’m sure he already has a special overcoat with extra long sleeves to hide the handcuffs but he’ll be slightly hunched (more than usual) and we can always hope for a good stiff wind to add to the humiliation.
Thank you, Charlie. This was a great year end review. And thank you and everybody at the Bulwark, including the readers, for showing me that a Northeast liberal like me and a Mideast conservative like you have so much in common. In this age of tribalism, I’m proud to count the people at the Bulwark as part of my tribe.
A couple of thoughts:
On fusion - a tremendous accomplishment, but this puts us nowhere near the finish line. I doubt most of us reading this will live to see commercial fusion power plants. However, we’ve made tremendous progress in many areas of clean energy production over the past few years. While it’s not enough to keep pace with government subsidies for oil here in the US, expanded use of coal in China and India and deforestation in Brazil, it does give us a glimmer of hope.
On Dobbs - I’ve always been pro choice. I’ve never put a lot of thought into it, it seemed a personal issue where the government had no place and a women’s issue where I had no place. I understood that people were pro-life for religious reasons and never paid much mind to those that said men in the pro-life movement wanted to control women.
The reaction on the right to Dobbs opened my eyes. First was the case of the 10 year old rape victim who had to be taken to another state to terminate her pregnancy. Aside from the cruelty toward the child, the efforts to prosecute the doctors involved, and Right wing medias’ attempts to discredit the story clearly showed an effort to portray the rape victim as the criminal.
Multiple stories of Doctors being afraid to properly treat etopic pregnancies and those afraid to properly clean out a uterus after a miscarriage out of fear of prosecution are things that never would have crossed my mind before this decision. The fervor with which Republicans at the state level are pushing punitive measures against not only women but young girls gives meaning to the term “forced birth”. I no longer consider this a women’s issue.. It’a human rights issue that we all must work to protect.
On TFG - Of course he belongs in jail. But I fear one or two MAGA morons will cause a hung jury and that wish will go unfulfilled. Under my reduced expectations, all I want to see in ‘23 is a perp walk. I’m sure he already has a special overcoat with extra long sleeves to hide the handcuffs but he’ll be slightly hunched (more than usual) and we can always hope for a good stiff wind to add to the humiliation.