For good reason, much has been made of late on the contraception -debate- -fiasco- clusterfuck. We've had excellent diaries here at Dkos on everything from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's diary on the Blunt Amendment to Kaili Joy Gray's diary on the limpdick windbag and even a nice song from 40 years ago that was politely brought to us by newmexicobear (where I was born, btw). And obviously, many, many others.
Before we add the twist, let's pause for a note from the orange thingy:
We can make it about an attack on women. It is. Good, accurate point.
We can make it about a desire to impose their religion on others. It is. Another good, accurate point.
But what's missing to me is a pretty simple concept here. The more we talk about contraception and such, the less we're talking about OWS. And yet the two go hand in hand. (And I'm not saying we should talk about OWS more, and contraception less. Just bear with me for a moment.)
The Right has once again found a way to state that the desires of a business owner, the wishes of a corporation, the will of the wealthy shall be imposed on all others, and are far more important than the rights of anyone else.
It started with abortion. The Right wants to make it as difficult to exercise a a federal right recognized since 1973. This began with requirements about ultrasounds, which is currently turning into State Rape. For abortion, it's pretty simple: mandate unnecessary procedures, some of which may require expensive equipment (don't forget that company is owned by a sponsor of the bill.) What does this do? Drive up the cost! The Right just wants to make it harder to exercise your rights. If you can't afford it, they win.
An affront on women? Sure. An attack on your rights? You bet. But it takes advantage of basic economics. With a growing divide between the 1% and 99%, I can assure you they will continue to take advantage of that at every possible opportunity.
Then it turned to health screening. We can go back to the proposals to eliminate any and all government funding for Planned Parenthood. We can discuss their hypocrisy and stupidity. But it's one more way to deny health services to those that can't afford them.
Without getting into every single example, this brings us to the contraception ass-hattery going on now, which brings us back to the focus of this diary. Personally, I don't think the contraception issue is a winner for the Right. I think we'll clearly and convincingly win this issue. But in the discussions about women's health, the attack on women's health, and the failure to understand separation of church and state...why not continue to push the issue of the growing economic divide, and the disappearance of the middle class? (And that's an outdated report!)
The polling on this issue tells us we win it. We still have to fight it, sure, but the majority of the public is on our side. But we also win on the economy, and that's a clearly related issue. So please, in your discussions of the issues, thing about some of the other motivations. What else can motivate the Right to take the action they're taking? And what else can we use to motivate others to leave the party of hate?
Thanks for your time.