Abortion: Extremely Rare

My position is that abortions should be extremely rare. But that is like saying I want to see an end to poverty. You can't make poverty illegal and thus end it. But poverty can be ended through economic growth, and public policy. Abortion is just like that. And I think Hillary has the best set of policies that, if implemented, would make abortions rare. It might be to do with the fact that she is a woman. A woman knows a woman's body best. Women across party lines should give her a majority in the House so she may show results in the first two years of making history as a woman president.

I personally know very little about the policies that will drive the abortion rate down. I mean, I have some idea. It is not like I know nothing. More the reason to support Hillary. She knows.  

Mesmerizing Solution By Hillary

When Clinton rolled out a progressive set of policies for families at her May events in Lexington and Louisville, her explanation went something like this: We need a national system of paid family leave because too many women don’t even get a paid day off to give birth; workers don’t have a federal requirement for paid sick days; meanwhile, many dads and parents of adopted children don’t get any time off at all, and sons and daughters don’t get time to take care of aging parents. We also need to establish voluntary home-visiting programs, where new parents, especially those facing economic adversity, can get assistance in learning how to care for their children and prepare them to succeed in school, thus taking aim at unequal outcomes in the earliest years. Relatedly, we need to raise wages, because two-thirds of minimum-wage workers are women, which has an impact on single-parent and dual-earning homes and, when combined with high child-care costs, inhibits women’s ability to earn equal benefits, save for college, and put away for retirement. Minimum-wage workers currently spend between 20 and 40 percent of their income on child care; Clinton has a plan whereby no family would pay more than 10 percent on child care, but she also believes we need to increase pay for child-care providers and early educators, who in some places are paid less than dog trainers and who have their own families to take care of. All of this is tied to the need to strengthen unions and make health care more affordable through revisions to the Affordable Care Act as well.

The Pus That Is Donald's Racism/Sexism/Xenophobia

When Donald Trump went all the way to New Mexico to berate the top Latina in his party, he knew exactly what he was doing. He was being racist with a clinical precision. And it was a double whammy, because she is also a woman. He was able to be racist and sexist at the same time. And it worked. His poll numbers went up a little.

That sums up the next few months. This election will not be fought on policy, or ability to deliver. There is a cultural nationalism - if it can be called that - that is being peddled in the most naked way in the history of the republic. Granted it was always there, but now it is out in the open for all world to see. As I see it, it is bleeding pus. The Donald is bleeding out the pus. Hillary is going to heal the wound.

Racism, sexism and xenophobia have to be countered with clinical precision. That would be all.