We are on the road for democracy and justice | Bernie Sanders
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What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated

Bernie is 100% right now, we can’t count on the Dems in DC. The working class is going to have to fight this one.

It’ll require a lengthy grassroots effort from the working class any its allies. At the moment, anything you can think to do is the right thing to do until a proper movement coalesces. Get out and try things. And bring your friends along for the effort. That’s how movements like this get going.

  • Alteon@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 days ago

    You mean the “rights of women”? I’m sure you’ve heard all of the arguments already, but here we go:

    • 99% of pregnanies are performed before 20 weeks. Typically right around the time it’s been discovered.
    • Anything beyond that is almost always due to the loss of the child or discovery of a fetal abnormality.
    • Restricting abortion limits personal freedom, disproportionately affects low-income women, and can force individuals into unsafe medical situations or unwanted pregnancies that impact their lives, careers, and families.

    There is no good reason to restrict abortions. The world is not a better place when unwanted children are brought into it, especially when the people that are pushing to ban it don’t want to offer any sort of governmental assistance to deal with said child. It almost feels like the intent isn’t to help the baby, that it’s more of a punishment for the woman for being “immoral”.

    The reason why the “elite” want to ban it is because it easily destroys your potential to get ahead. They don’t want an educated populace, they want a multitude of dumb, cheap labor, and restricting abortion is an extremely easy way to get that. Also by getting conservatives to hyperfixate on this issue (and things like LGBTQ rights), it draws attention away from wealth inequality, labor right, and other systemic issues.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      44·
      2 days ago

      I was talking about the killing of babies that were already born in Gaza, but ok.

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ah, that reads exactly like, “Democrats need for abortion (i.e. killing babies) was more important than winning.”

        My bad! 😆