I remember 1973 and I remember Roe-Wade. For the longest time I believed that Roe-Wade was an incontrovertible moment in American civil rights and feminism.
I was wrong. Forty years later the holy-roller wing of the Republican Tea Party has their teeth into this issue as never before.
Todd Akin is not an aberration. He speaks for the grassroots. Mitt doesn't.
And look at Tom Smith in Pennsylvania.
Sooner or later you're going to see these guys win democratic elections and then what are you going to say?
That's a risk you take with democracy. If the the majority of voters exercise their franchise in favor of a Smith or an Akin in their constituencies, well, shut-up and let them govern according to the will of the people. You'll have a chance to undo the damage in a couple of years.
That's democracy.
That's also a searing indictment of America's downward spiral these past few generations.
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