Sisters, Gimme a Break!
Dispatches from Deena Stryker
On the day after the inauguration of a president who declares loud and clear: “We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow. We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones — and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism,” America’s best and brightest, who have formed the corps of the peace movement since the Vietnam War, have come out by the thousands to denounce him for placing peace above individual ‘rights’ such as same sex marriage and abortion.
I say this as a woman who had four abortions during the scary times when they were outlawed. I managed to have them, notwithstanding the risks. But neither I nor my children and grandchildren will survive nuclear war.
Madonna’s response to this hopeful speech was to say she had thought of blowing up the White House, then explaining:” I shared two ways of looking at things — one was to be hopeful, and one was to feel anger and outrage, which I have personally felt.” In a sign of how confused liberals are, Madonna was doing the same sort of thing they criticize Trump for.
Being self-centered, Americans never complain that so little of what is happening in the wider world makes it into the corporate-controlled media with the result that even progressives never coalesced around the Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria wars in anything like the numbers we’re seeing today. Oh, they are against war, water-boarding, the assassination of US citizens abroad, or the military detention of those who blow the whistle on government crimes. But when we finally have a president, however contemptible some of his personal characteristics may be, who calls for an end to US wars of aggression, hundred of thousands take to the streets because his supreme court could one day overturn Roe v. Wade!
I say this as a woman who had four abortions during the scary times when they were outlawed. I managed to have them, notwithstanding the risks. But neither I nor my children and grandchildren will survive nuclear war.
The singers and speakers on podiums across the land who are exhorting their audiences to fight for women’s and LGBT rights were not given free signs when the US went to war in one after another Middle Eastern country. Nobody ‘sent a message’ to Presidents Bush and Obama when they demanded unlimited money for arms manufacturers while cutting SNAP or medicaid.
Listening to the stars being interviewed on CNN, they are right to be defending the control of their bodies, but when they say ‘He’s not my president’, I wonder why progressive women fought harder for Hillary than they did for Bernie. Do they not know that Hillary was/is itching to go to war with Russia — nuclear war? Why was it more important for them to elect a woman president, than to elect a socialist who would not have favored nuclear war with anyone? It’s their fault that we got Trump, when we could have had Bernie, who poles showed would have beaten Trump roundly.
But this situation should not be seen in isolation. Following World War II, people were told they could do anything they wanted as long as they didn’t infringe on others’ identical physical rights. Gradually, the world is discovering that freedom to act must bow to the same limits as nature itself, or see its inner freedom disappear.
The press anointed Donald Trump because it could not resist ‘a good story’, and now it colludes with those trying to close the barn door. The President just finished speaking to employees of the CIA, who demonstrated often and loudly that they agreed with his agenda to eliminate ISIS, a bigger threat to women potentially than the Supreme Court. And yet, a CNN panel ripped his appearance apart over details of style. Not because Trump can’t be trusted with the nuclear football. But because his ‘deals’ would put arms manufacturers out to pasture, while healing our soldiers, who, as the CIA crowd showed vociferously, will support him to the hilt.
DEENA STRYKER, Senior Contributing Editor
Born in Philadelphia, Stryker spent most of her adolescent and adult years in Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, her latest being
CUBA: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World
A Taoist Politics: The Case For Sacredness
She began her journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before they made the revolution (‘Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young’). After spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, she wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union (“Une autre Europe, un autre Monde’). Her memoir, ‘Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel’, tells it all. ‘A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness’, which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and modern science and what this implies for political activism; and ‘America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World” is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from the City on a Hill’.
APPENDIX
For the record
Madonna Women’s March Speech “Blowing Up The White House” on Washington Protest Trump
FULL SPEECH
MAIN IMAGE: Madonna shooting her mouth off at the women’s rally. Where was Madonna and her ilk during the long years that Clinton and Obama martyred the whole Middle East, especially Libya and Syria?
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