Republican Male Supremacists Play the Woman Card

Republican male supremacists are playing the woman card when they gender-bait misogynists instead of talking about their sole accomplishment in Congress: permanent tax cuts for the rich. Since the Republican Congressional tax "reform" act conferred 83% of its benefits on the richest one percent of the rich permanently, the tax cuts for the rich plan started out unpopular and stayed that way.

So, Republicans don't want to talk about their permanent tax cuts for the rich, and I don't blame them. What can they talk about? Race-baiting didn't work for Republican candidate for governor, Ed Gillespie, in Virginia. Democrat Ralph Northam won that race. People's top concern in that race was health care. Sixty percent of women voted for Ralph Northam; only 48% of men did. Black voters also turned out for Northam.

You'll remember similar statistics in Alabama, when now Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) defeated Republican "Judge" Roy Moore. Ninety-eight percent of black women voted for Doug Jones, who successfully prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members who murdered four little black girls attending church. Ninety-three percent of black men voted for Doug Jones.

Republicans want to talk about Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, and Michelle Wolf, those women that male supremacists love to hate. Republican candidates are linking Democratic incumbents like Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) with Hillary in an effort to take her down.

Mind you, Republicans don't want to talk about their governor, Eric Greitens, the ultimate male supremacist. He's a former Navy Seal who taped up his female victim, his hairdresser, in his basement, before sexually assaulting her.

It's too bad that Morris Dees didn't mention it in his latest solicitation letter (and I gave less because of his failure to mention it and told him so) but the Southern Poverty Law Center identified a new hate group recently: male supremacy.

"Male supremacy is a hateful ideology advocating for the subjugation of women.

"Male supremacy misrepresents all women as genetically inferior, manipulative and stupid and reduces them to their reproductive or sexual function — with sex being something that they owe men and that can or even should be coerced out of them. Driven by a biological analysis of women as fundamentally inferior to men, male supremacists malign women specifically for their gender. A thinly veiled desire for the domination of women and a conviction that the current system oppresses men in favor of women are the unifying tenets of the male supremacist worldview."

Remember the involuntary celibate, Alek Minassian, who ran down women on a Canadian sidewalk because no one would sleep with him? Maybe he thought they owed it to him and deserved his revenge. Apparently, he's not the first to murder women for not sleeping with him.

The April 23rd, 2018 issue of "The Week" has a picture of James Comey as a knight carrying a lance. On his shield is a caricature of Trump encircled in red with a red line through his face. Hillary should be on Comey's shield. Comey helped Trump win the election, though he doesn't seem self-aware enough to realize what his motives were. A Republican, Comey dealt a devastating blow to Hillary Clinton by writing a letter critical of her just 11 days before the November 2016 election. Nate Silver of the respected organization 538 stated that James Comey's letter "probably cost Hillary the election," not that she didn't make mistakes of her own, but Comey's letter halved her lead in the polls.

The role of male supremacy in women's lives is only beginning to be recognized, and plenty of people on both sides of the political divide don't see it for what it is. When Republicans go after women it's just another form of bigotry, only this time it isn't race-baiting, though they do that too. Now it's gender-baiting.