Boomer here! Our parents definitely drove home the dangers of demagoguery and fascism, and we remember. We women also remember life before Roe and know how hard our society worked to move forward with respect to all rights —culminating in the right to gay marriage in 2015. Donald Trump and MAGA has set back this drive toward equal rights…
Boomer here! Our parents definitely drove home the dangers of demagoguery and fascism, and we remember. We women also remember life before Roe and know how hard our society worked to move forward with respect to all rights —culminating in the right to gay marriage in 2015. Donald Trump and MAGA has set back this drive toward equal rights …we see all that we earned under threat by MAGA, the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, and increasingly an activist SCOTUS. We are terrified and we are pissed. And we are going out to vote to be a bulwark against all those who fail to realize the danger. I hope and pray it works.
I wish my boomer mom felt that way about abortion. She is opposed no matter what for religious reasons, but I told her the other day… I certainly hope (her granddaughters name) doesn’t have to die for your beliefs one day 🤷🏻♀️.
I am hopeful that all you say is true, but I can't help but notice that in the last two elections, Trump's greatest support came from the older voters. You're parents may have drove home those dangers, as did my grandparents, but sadly, I don't think we can make that blanket statement for the generation at large. Or even make it for the Silent generation before them either.
Now your point on equal rights and older women, I'm certainly willing to be more open to.
It's the older FEMALE voters that Selzer's poll showed are supporting Harris. The margin among women 65 and over is more than 2 to 1. It's 63-28.
This is what she said about them on Tim's podcast yesterday: " . . . two Iowa districts tilting toward the Democratic [House] candidate. And that includes a big lead in the first district, which is 53 to 37. And that district in particular . . . the driving issue, from what I read, has been the abortion issue. And it was over the summer that Iowa's six-week ban on abortion went into effect after all the court challenges were taken care of. So the decision being made, the law going into force, and then people living with it for a while . . . To me, it seems like to a certain extent there's something organic going on because the presidential candidates certainly aren't spending any money or time here. And it may be, in fact, that these congressional races are driving the presidential race toward the Democrats . . . "
Good to see. I do think it kinda makes my point that the change is the abortion issue, not some awakening of the older voters about the threat of autocracy.
I'm really hoping for some surprising results out there in places like Iowa. And maybe, just maybe we can translate that into wins in other areas in coming years. If the voters in places like Iowa can recognize their power to reject Republicans ruling them on issues they disagree with, maybe that can happen on things like guns too (background checks, red flags, etc.).
As I think about it some more, abortion and autocracy are related: A government that can force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term is an authoritarian one.
Very true. Though we still need work in a general sense. From a certain perspective a case could be made that we collectively only woke up to the autocracy when it was coming for us (women first, but also the men who care about them).
Boomer here! Our parents definitely drove home the dangers of demagoguery and fascism, and we remember. We women also remember life before Roe and know how hard our society worked to move forward with respect to all rights —culminating in the right to gay marriage in 2015. Donald Trump and MAGA has set back this drive toward equal rights …we see all that we earned under threat by MAGA, the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, and increasingly an activist SCOTUS. We are terrified and we are pissed. And we are going out to vote to be a bulwark against all those who fail to realize the danger. I hope and pray it works.
I wish my boomer mom felt that way about abortion. She is opposed no matter what for religious reasons, but I told her the other day… I certainly hope (her granddaughters name) doesn’t have to die for your beliefs one day 🤷🏻♀️.
I am hopeful that all you say is true, but I can't help but notice that in the last two elections, Trump's greatest support came from the older voters. You're parents may have drove home those dangers, as did my grandparents, but sadly, I don't think we can make that blanket statement for the generation at large. Or even make it for the Silent generation before them either.
Now your point on equal rights and older women, I'm certainly willing to be more open to.
It's the older FEMALE voters that Selzer's poll showed are supporting Harris. The margin among women 65 and over is more than 2 to 1. It's 63-28.
This is what she said about them on Tim's podcast yesterday: " . . . two Iowa districts tilting toward the Democratic [House] candidate. And that includes a big lead in the first district, which is 53 to 37. And that district in particular . . . the driving issue, from what I read, has been the abortion issue. And it was over the summer that Iowa's six-week ban on abortion went into effect after all the court challenges were taken care of. So the decision being made, the law going into force, and then people living with it for a while . . . To me, it seems like to a certain extent there's something organic going on because the presidential candidates certainly aren't spending any money or time here. And it may be, in fact, that these congressional races are driving the presidential race toward the Democrats . . . "
Older male voters are leaving Trump too
Good to see. I do think it kinda makes my point that the change is the abortion issue, not some awakening of the older voters about the threat of autocracy.
I'm really hoping for some surprising results out there in places like Iowa. And maybe, just maybe we can translate that into wins in other areas in coming years. If the voters in places like Iowa can recognize their power to reject Republicans ruling them on issues they disagree with, maybe that can happen on things like guns too (background checks, red flags, etc.).
Yes, you did say that.
As I think about it some more, abortion and autocracy are related: A government that can force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term is an authoritarian one.
Very true. Though we still need work in a general sense. From a certain perspective a case could be made that we collectively only woke up to the autocracy when it was coming for us (women first, but also the men who care about them).
You know, that could make a good sign / T-shirt.