The Senate lineup assured that the minimum wage bill was going to be shot down. But we missed an opportunity.
While Ted Kennedy talking about poverty being unacceptable in a rich nation is accurate and true and moral...it is toothless and doesn't hit in the gut.
We need to convince our reps to tie our quality of life issues, starting with the minimum wage, to abortion. Yes abortion. I am not scared of using it as a bludgeon to knock the teeth in of the sanctimonious fucks who preach morality but act with ignorant disdain.
And neither should you. Or your Senator.
my thoughts below
We all know and it is easily researched and intuited that one of the reasons women or families legally choose to abort is because of actual poverty or borderline poverty and having a child will make matters financially more difficult for themselves and the child.
Our reps need to say that they are supporting a higher minimum wage so they can help reduce the number of abortions in the country because women and families are afraid that they wont have enough money to provide. So they want to help take that concern off the table.
If Republicans say "Hey business cant sustain this new minimum wage blah blah pro business blah blah and this pro-labor blah blah"
We say "I cant believe that Republican don't want to reduce the number of abortions in this country."
We go around the country and hold town halls and tell people that the minimum wage reduces the number of abortions. Yes it helps those without children too and helps those near poverty but we, as Democrats, want to lower the number of abortions in America. Don't belive what Republican say because nothing is more important than reducing the number of abortions in this country, not business concerns, not tax bracketing, nothing.
While we are at it we talk about abortion rates going up under Bush et al.
Even if we lose we have branded ourselves as a party that cares about reducing abortions and we have fodder to show that Republicans just dont care.
Then rinse and repeat with other issues like universal childcare - we support this so expectant mothers don't have to worry who is going to take care of their child.
our issues are quality of life issues and we can not shy away from using abortion to help us because the existence of abortion is a quality of life issue to a lot of people.