(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Why the Republicans want more babies [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-02 If you think about the social issues Republicans care about, it is about making more babies. Lots and lots of more babies. If you take away abortion and birth control, if you stop teaching sex ed, if you wage a war on people choosing members of their own sex to marry, or change the bodies that they were born with to have different genitalia… take those all together, and what do you have? More babies. Well, ok. But what are the other issues that Republicans care about? Making rich people richer, and poor people poorer; disenfranchising as many voters as possible; making the lives of working people as miserable as possible (wages, health care, pollution, osha). What do these things have in common? The top 1% of the nation holds about the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90% of the nation. OMG! What happens if 90% of the nation ever got together and sought the same influence as the top 1%? Well, fear not!, it is never going to happen. Because that bottom 90% has a sliver of the disposable income that the top 1% have, because they pay a much larger percentage of their income on silly things like rent and food and transportation, and the wealthiest among us, they just don’t pay 25% on their housing costs. But, still. What happens if the bottom 90% give HALF of their disposable income to the Democrats? Well, fear not!, the Republican Party has a solution. More babies. More babies means less disposable income. The poorer you are, the faster it goes away. The more babies you have, the less disposable income you have. The more hours you work, the less you fight for higher wages, or make any waves at work at all. Oh, PLUS, more babies today mean lower wages tomorrow when those more babies have to compete for the same jobs. And, fear not!, the Republicans want to ship whatever jobs they can out of the country, especially for people who can’t afford a private education or a ridiculously expensive college degree. More babies competing for fewer jobs means fewer workplace protections, less powerful unions, and MORE PROFIT FOR THE 1%. The short version of the Republican Party’s overall strategy is… 1) Kick the poor 2) Make more people poor 3) Go to 1 If you can’t figure out why the Republicans care about a particular topic, just think: how does it make more people poor? In the case of abortion, birth control, and the overall obsession with people’s wee-wees, it is pretty easy to see how to make more people poor: make more people; make them poor. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/2/2150656/-Why-the-Republicans-want-more-babies Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/