Gloria Steinem's Passing: Demecracy, Trump and Where We are Now

Gloria Steinem (courtesy of NPR)

We largely believe and take on faith that our government is a democracy and the constitution supports this. Gloria Steinem, feminist icon who died at 92-years old didn't agree. She said that until women were given equal opportunity and an equal place as human beings in this country, this was not a democratic nation. What we have seen in the last twenty years is an erosion of moving toward this concept with glosses like #me too duping women into thinking they have a voice and power. MAGA women used #me too to tar and feather men unjustly. So it did nothing to approach the underlying unequal power structures and institutions that are grossly inequitable and driven by money accumulation by a power elite.

If you look at the Lewis Powell memo, the "erosion" happened right when Roe v Wade happened. The news media didn't cover it widely and no organization thrust it before the American people as a warning.Without knowledge, the people perish; knowledge is light. The country coming out of the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements in the 1960s and 1970s were blind to think culturally the nation was growing more toward democracy. In fact, conservative groups dug in and became  more treacherous and duplicitous, despite Barry  Goldwater who despised Nixon told him to resign.

 

 COMPLICITY  VIA INDECENCY AND DISHONOR

The concept of a two party system has been despoiled with complicity between both parties. Self-interest is their uniform goal which settles in their intent to screw the American people and reduce them to servitude and slavery in various degrees, while protesting they do the opposite.  Both parties take our tax dollars and do little for the majority of the nation...regarding infrastructure, boosting the economy, creating affordable housing, universal healthcare, sustainable climate practices, safeguarding the planet and environment and more.. Those "expert geniuses" who propound science and make it dance to their rhythms then lie about (Musk, Gates, CEOs of AI companies, Bill Gates, Peter Thiel), believe that it is easier to kill off the population and sustain it that way, then make changes to corporate profitability and correct the above. 

 

It is megalomania to ignore that the destruction will fall on themselves as well. Who will make the decision to kill which pedophile oligarch first? They don't trust one another and the power and money race "to the top" is its own doom and is destroying them as I write this. They only thing they have to fear is their own stupidity and magical thinking that they can escape.

Politics is all about corporate welfare and Americans funding the bills to an obscene disproportionate amount while the wealthy do not pay their proportionate amount. fair share. The corporates screw us: 1)giving us horrid products that harm us; 2)getting govt grants from us to expand their screwing of us with bad products; 3)are not held accountable for breaking the law-human rights- for screwing us with bad products (food, meds, med devices, Data Centers destructive use of land, water, air, rights etc.) Trump has made this  worse by removing prior regulations that attempted to safeguard us. He must be sued for breaching the safety of all Americans willingly, negligently following corporate agendas for kick backs in a massive conflict of interest. All money made from his presidencies must be clawed back and put into the treasury/economy. The complicit corporations must be held to account.

 

 

 

The Pentagon's obscene corporate (Musk alone has many contracts that are conflicts of interest) budget must be held to account and corporate welfare malfeasance ended.

 

Built in are wars and funding genocides with religious propaganda justifications, abject lies demonizing Muslims/INDIGINEOUS PEOPLES and various scapegoats, for oil, land development, etc., all of which serves to stoke the weapons and arms/defense industries and pentagon which has been grossly mismanaged intentionally for years while taxpayers can't afford their adulterated food bills. 

If anyone wants to be a politician, they must join the club to be approved...i.e. run the gauntlet of various perversions if they are male:  the old/young boys club of perversions-rape, pedophilia, adultery to keep them in line as each politician has something to rat the other on. As for the women? They are agreeable pawns...to one degree or another putting a face on equal representation, but falling far short, since there are very few women in congress and the senate. Consider how many women CEOs are in business, as their own entepreneurs. Is the proportion of male to females in positions of power in state government equivalent? And often if and when women get there, they act like men, compromised, corrupt, complicit (i.e. Letitia James of NY).

Gloria, throughout her life was clear spoken and clear minded. Equality and equal opportunity were her mantras. She pushed, but the corporate structure found their lackey politicians and pushed harder. Much has changed on the surface, but, nothing has changed substantially as the politicos are pushing back to pre Roe using religious hypocrisy. 

 

 The KKK males who are a large part of the child trafficking and porn industry and other white supremacists of the Southern criminal mafia need little girls  and babies to fuel it. They support brutality as macho...making them suspect of down low faggotism...homophobia. Their brutality as their need to prove their masculinity becomes  their raison d'etre and is suspect of down low gay misogyny. Proving their masculinity by being sensitive, empathetic and kind actually is logical. Their homicidal, perverse fear of queerness is evidence of their deep, repressed, same-sex attractions and lusts. ;-)

Gloria knew the fight for true democracy with equality for all and equal opportunity and representation was still at the beginning...she knew that better than anyone. After all, the ERA has been passed, but not enacted. Biden tried...but was shouted down as infirm, while a dementia-ridden, psychotic, diapered Adderall-fueled drug addict defamed Biden and his son from here to eternity. The ERA's passing/enforcement, weak, fragile males fear. They fear it could inroad  the profitability of the male dominated industries tied to trafficking, pornography, and all the industrial complexes...that have harm and brutality as their basis of control (medical, military, cosmetic/fashion/weight loss, food). Each industry poisons or harms humans in their "quest" to help themselves. For example, the medical industrial complex is for-profit. Life, once given, then, is not a right; existence must be paid for.   

Gloria spoke of the logic, then of giving women equal pay with men. It would add billions to the tax structure and shore up the economy to greater profitability because women are the shoppers. Give them more money that they don't have to ask their husbands for and they will add to corporate market share...better than "trickle down."

The male "urge" to be colonial occupiers has been demonstrated on all levels from wealthy privileged to Louisiana's governor Huey Long who said  a man is king...and the British peer Sir Coke in the 1600s said..."a man is the king of his own castle" (even if it is a dirt shack).  Meanwhile, who did the labor in the castle and were "expected" to keep it running smoothly so that the family was viable so the man could "protect it:? Women  as chattel slaves. When the women gave out and died, men were free to marry another, use her up, marry another, use her up, etc. Only the wealthy and middle class merchants could hire servants so they didn't work. Women birthed children; labor was born from the moment she was born a female. Her body made her a  slave.

 

Gloria and I at a film screening, either 'Dolores' or 'Hooligan Sparrow (Carole Di Tosti)

 

 Of course through folk wisdom and medicine, women could choose to abort that which enslaved them. Over the centuries, possibly millions of embryos were ended. No one speaks of that, an inconvenient truth men can't believe. 

Women who have raised their sons to be human and decent are to be credited... ironically gay men who are out as gay, seem more balanced than repressed "incels" and perverted, repressed married men on the down low, who are pedophiles, and who play at being normal but are far from it (i.e. Trump and MAGA Republicans like Mike Johnson, JD Vance, Hegseth, Gym Jordan, etc.). Gay men are also kinder to women. Toxic masculines like gay-fearing Trump and his gang of miscreant, deplorable criminals are a hideous example of the "macho" cruelty toward women behaviors.

 

The treasonus MAGAS who initially refused to accept the certified state ballots in the 2020 election.

In light of "feminism" we have seen burgeoning abuse of children and young girls in child trafficking, child porn, child murder-child disappearance.  This  is the male corporate response as trafficking and child porn is hugely profitable as is organ harvesting. The shame of it in its illegality is the regulation. Now, with Todd Blanche's carte blanche not prosecuting the pedophiles at the top, the industry is burgeoning even more. 

 

 

 

Don't think child trafficking has stopped. It has been green lighted...lies are its justification and Blanche is the cover, probably getting massive kickbacks from the CEOs of the various industries. The singular male living at home with mama is a feeding ground for pornography because such "incels" feel they are not marriageable material, and they keep themselves busy by enjoying the porn industry. But many men including married men have been lured and conditioned to look at pornography. That's why it's legal and that's why Howard Stern helped to diffuse the sickness of males looking at young women (who often were hostages,) and used them as fantasy, sexual outlets while the wife was "doing her thing" with friends.

 

 This is not freedom. As long as Americans are the unwitting slaves of corporate capture via Trump and the MAGAS and complicit Demcrats, they are not free. They are kept sick in every aspect of their nature (emotionally, psychically, mentally, etc.) They are manufactured humans, manufactured by the cultural propaganda of corporates. Women are more beautiful, enhanced and younger looking than ever, (enslaved to the process of staying that way), while men are uglier, Joe Rogan types to avoid looking like pretty boy gays. The American citizen is increasingly less free, as they are molded into corporate elites' slaves as they become financially insoluble.

Gloria Steinem's passing and her wisdom are words to live by...especially what she said about Trump. She was quoted as saying that he and his cabinet must be removed as unfit, derelict, incapable of tje position (these are my words..."he was never duly elected to in the first place.") but "got" via massive election fraud. 2016, 2024. No landslide or popular vote winner. Do your research.