Because your attention needs to be deflected from actual crises, JD Vance, GOP candidate for US Senate in Ohio is looking for targets to demonize which aren’t as stupid as MTG’s ridiculous search for “trans-terrorists”.
The latest trope is to suggest that something, something, government and pr0n, yet another stupid attack because media effects arguments are notoriously fluid in actual democracies, but useful when pandering to electoral interest groups. After all isn’t it just one step from watching sexy pix to causing a mass shooting.
Apparently, as Josh Hawley (R-MO) has implied, adult entertainment and masturbation seem to be a problem for white men, whose indulgent fantasies make them somehow open to something, something, replacement by ignoring their reproductive responsibilities… maybe.
The Ohio Senate candidate told a Catholic magazine in 2021 that porn should be restricted to help an "isolated" generation thrive. Apparently people are doing more than Bowling Alone. Maybe because catsuits are the problem.
Tricky thing that First Amendment, just like another trumpist has just discovered that in their frenzy to protect Donald Trump’s “free speech” rights to spread falsehoods on social media, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Republicans appear to have misunderstood — or flat-out ignored — the First Amendment.
How odd to bring up the First Amendment, given that it makes it clear that, “Congress shall make no law” abridging the freedom of speech (as well the exercise of religion, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances). In other words, the amendment is largely understood to restrict government regulations on speech — the very thing that DeSantis and lawmakers attempted to do.
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In his statement on the Uvalde school shooting, Vance cited the absence of strong family values — and not the lack of gun control — to explain why a gunman would murder 19 children and two teachers.
“We need to address the culture of fatherlessness and drug addiction in our country, focus on the importance of family so that our next generation is guided and empowered with strong support systems,” Vance said.
The “Hillbilly Elegy” author’s attitude on porn may be a throwback to the social conservatism that defined the 1970s with President Richard Nixon’s “War on Porn.” Those in favor of restricting access to porn now cite the nation’s declining birth rate, the potential to promote sex trafficking and the “common good.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who endorsed Vance, hasn’t explicitly called for a porn ban. But at last year’s National Conservative Conference, Hawley argued that porn and masturbation were creating a national crisis for men.
“Can we be surprised that after years of being told they are the problem, that their manhood is the problem, more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and pornography and video games,” Hawley said.
Porn regulation is a thorny subject for conservatives and libertarians, who are torn on whether tamping it down would undermine individual freedoms.