Posted on 07/24/2017 2:44:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Its now been six dizzying and nauseating months since Donald Trump took the oath of office, and the brightest spot on the American political landscape is the grassroots resistance that has sprung up to counter his regime. No previous president ever faced so many protests so early in his term, and the millions who have taken to the streets since January can already take significant credit for stalling and frustrating key aspects of Trumps agenda, from his Muslim ban to his bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
There are numerous qualities that distinguish this organizing upsurge from past waves of protest in the United States, but the most striking and significant is its composition: the resistance, by and large, is women.
The movement kicked off, of course, with massive Womens Marches in more than 650 cities and towns across the United States the day after the inauguration, which together added up to the single largest day of protest in American history.
Women have anchored nearly every aspect of the resistance work since. Women made up a solid majority of those who marched on Washington time and again last spring: sociologist Dana Fisher found, for instance, that 54% of participants in the Peoples Climate March and 57% of those who attended DCs March on Science were women. A March survey of phone calls to Congressional offices found an even more striking gender gap, with women constituting 86% of those making calls.
Women have taken the lead in using stronger resistance tactics since the inauguration, from blockading Trump Tower in support of immigrant rights to holding sit-ins against Trumpcare at Senate offices in Washington.
And women have spearheaded many of the most noteworthy creative actions to counter the broader Trump agenda in recent months.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Thanks, I think.
There were no surprises. ukk
In that photo she’s was wearing the same hat I saw her wearing walking in the distance.
They misspelled Communist
They still vted for “husband,” for a govenment that will take care of them.
Another boring feminist radical can’t believe that Queen Hillary The Inevitable lost. Tough.
I am talking about the aggregate, not individuals, by any means. Married women, having a husband, are nor so apt to vote that way at all. They have their protection for themselves and their children.I doubt that any of the women who peruse FreeRepublic fit that category. The problem with the granting of the franhise is that you can’t limit it to a certain group of freedom oriented women. It is either all or none. I argued long against that idea until my wife finally convinced me of it. She pointed out the political proclivities among the women we knew and it broke down largely into the difference between married and unmarried women with women in bad marriages. Divorced women we knew, admittedly a relatively small sample, were uniformly Democrat in a very Republican town.
A much larger proportion of white women are married than of, say, Negro women. They are also reacting to Obama who is an anomaly in American politics. He did not inspire hope of husbandly support.
Using the Common Sense that God gifted us promotes Conservatism.
Depending on Feelings and having no Belief System promotes Liberalism.
Uncontrolled Liberalism leads to very bad things.
It is long past a time when such seeds could sprout. I have been around too long and have seen how things work among the people I have known and have researched attitudes; somewhat. I have had family discussions with over two dozen cousins of various levels of relationship and most of them female Only two of them think that women should not vote but all confirm the tendency.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.