Republicans conflate anti-abortion propaganda with pro-rape policies. They make it a whole lot easier to get away with rape in the military and also in civilian life. With no exceptions, the Big GOPers take the side of male rapists.
How's that for Keep It Simple, Stupid ???
On our side, what the Democratic Party has to offer is deterrence. We are talking rape here. Deterrence is what really matters to women.
Where we fail at pressing deterrence, the side supporting the rapists comes out ahead. This has been a problem nationally going back to 1988, when rape became a main battlefield for national elections. That's when the GOP figured out they could play rape for votes.
1988 is when Michael Dukakis flubbed a question from Bernard Shaw of CNN. He was asked about how he'd react to his wife getting raped and murdered. Instead of saying he'd lock the SOB in an 8x10 cell for the rest of his natural life, Dukakis dropped a stupid line saying he opposed capital punishment.
No deterrence. No emotion to Kitty Dukakis getting slaughtered. Really, no deterrence was what mattered. Helluva missed opportunity, if you think about it.
Rapists Vote
Go out there today and what we've got is the national Republican Party conflating anti-abortion messages with going way soft on rape. GOP candidates go out wide open. They throw code words that do nothing but back the Blame The Victim concepts of rape.
This is not accidental. Not in the least. It's tactics. It's not 20 drunk teabaggers out on Uncle Bill's back porch. This is Republican policy 2008-2010-2012-2014:
These are not accidents.
The usual estimate has a fifth of women raped, one time or another. But that's using definitions for rape that predate the chemistry of Rohypnol, Ecstasy, ketamine, et.al. The number of single girls who wake up "feeling funny" and sometimes in a strange bed ??? That is hard/impossible to count.
For men, you could be looking at 10%. Fifty years ago rape took a knife to the girl's throat. Now it's a beer or a brownie. And gang rape after a couple of beers comes out as a routine part of campus life.
Face it. Today's GOP is pretty much a bigger, badder play on UVA's Phi Kappa Psi. Where "getting it up" and fxcking a beat to shit freshman "cunt" as part of a gang rape is the way you get to be a Brother.
Prove your effing manliness. Go for chemical romance. Screw the "cunt" when you want her. No way pay undue attention to her whining spew.
And the powers that be will protect you.
VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
Who's going to give a political party a fully robust, reliable political support ??? The rapist? Or the "cunt" who's been raped and has no reason to thank Democrats for what happened to her?
Who needs Republican pro-rape sentiment? Really needs it? Will never forget that he needs it. And has a medicine cabinet stuffed with sex-drugs that he values more than he values his car?
Any ideas about that?
How are Democrats supposed to deal with this mess? There's lots of rapists, if you use a modern definition. If you keep the chemicals in there. Hook Up Culture pretty much ensures that there's going to be nasty rapes, gang rapes, chemical rapes... you name it.
Is there any way that America's women, generally, should believe that Democrats are working to keep them from getting raped? Can Democrats deter anything? Save anybody from this crap?
Do something useful, going forward?
I didn't see it on November 4th. What? Where? How? Meanwhile, #rapistsvote
D'oh.