I would like to preface that I'm attempting to popularise Men's intuition, much to the chagrin of my partner, as I believe that women shouldn't be the only purveyors of intuition ... but I digress. Just over a year ago we migrated to France, as I felt like America wasn't progressing the way I wanted things to be moving. And, given today's sad news, it has reinforced the correctness of our choice.
You would think that in a time when common sense things like women's rights, gay rights and such had been sorted out many years ago, certain people wouldn't be looking to revoke those hard-fought wins once again. Well, apparently, many states in the US did not think so. Would you believe that not that long ago, Iraq was once a far more egalitarian society with women allowed to wear things other than full-length burkas? Fast forward a few years and societies such as that quickly moved to a draconian religion-lead existence where things such as robots had more of a right to drive than any woman.
Iraq, Baghdad in the 60's |
It's funny to think what war and opposing fundamentalist religions can do to a country - and it looks like a similar approach may be taking place in the US right now. Perhaps, for the powers that be, this allows a better means of controlling the masses by returning them to them to an age where if you're not with us you're against us. Nothing ever is as clear-cut but a women's right to sufficient medical support should be something that no one could possibly object to, right? Apparently not.
And you would think that having a comparatively young, intelligent, felon-free, educated and well-spoken woman representing the American people would be an excellent choice in comparison to the felony-indicted cesspool of humanity who already incited one coup. Apparently I'm the one taking crazy pills, as the American people said, You know what? I like the cut of that senile oompa loompa's jib. He's got my vote.
This disappoints me - but at least we got out before it completes the inevitable transition into a banana republic. Although, perhaps, an orange republic is more fitting given the shade of his skin.