Robert ReichJun 22, 2023

Today’s Republican Party, while claiming to stand for limited government, stands for government intrusion everywhere. They are:

-Outlawing abortions.

-Prohibiting teachers from teaching about America’s racist past.

-Making it harder to vote.

This is not limited government.

Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 22, 2023

@rbreich

An aspect that gets overlooked, is the costs of enforcement.

Are red state governments so wealthy, they can afford a massive increase in prisons, policing, and courts for the "crimes" of contraception, miscarriage, hormone treatment, abortion, voting, teaching history, reading assignments, and college AP courses?

Are taxpayers prepared to see double digit increases in taxation to fund the partisan wishlists of Republican billionaires buying the votes of evangelicals and bigots?

Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @rbreich If the current wave of reactionary hysteria isn't blunted, this will eventually morph into an argument for broad application of the death penalty.
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@fgbjr @Npars01 @rbreich Speaking as a former Southerner: that would decimate the intense profit center of Southern prison labor
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 23, 2023

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

GOP billionaire donors want to re-create slavery & Jane Crow. The GOP even want the death penalty for conviction of their fake culture war crimes

Much of it is a pretext to expand felony disenfranchisement, just like the "war on drugs" was a scheme to disenfranchise POC.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/nikki-haley-abortion-death-penalty
Sentencing women to domestic penal servitude for the "crime" of teaching history, contraception, hormone treatment, voting, reading banned books, or treating a miscarriage.

Nikki Haley Generously Declares She Wouldn’t Have Women Executed for Getting an Abortion

You’re welcome.

Vanity Fair
Show threadSteveBolognaJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich (sighs in agreement) Fortunately when I grew up in SC most of it was under Democrats
Show threadSteveBolognaJun 23, 2023
@jlroberson @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich Southern democrats are a different democrat
Show threadJL Roberson
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich Not necessarily, by the time I was growing up (1969-1987). But this was Charleston, under the Rileys. I can't speak for the rest of the state, which yes, was always bad(Greenville, where half my family came from, for instance)
But I can say that my uncle was Charleston County clerk of court for decades, was very important in the party there, and there were not a bunch of blue dogs left as I recall by then.
Jun 23, 2023 at 9:58pmWeb
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich But the governor whose education policies I went to HS under was Richard Riley who you may recall was later Clinton's Sec of Education, and he did a LOT of good in SC for education during his time.