Actually, we are moving toward ending women in sports via men saying they are women. Quota systems so trans folks get the jobs women have earned. Sororities will end as male are allowed into the “sisterhood”. Literally the Cancel Culture is eliminating women in the public place. In advertising we have seen men promote tampons, swim suits meant for women, bra’s and make-up. While it may not be one Ayatollah, it is corporate marketing people that are the spears end of eliminating women. In England, a man with a beard said he was a women and won a national wrestling tournament for women.
Women no longer give birth, it is a Birthing Person, as if men can give birth. We boycott Bud Light and Target—Is it time to boycott any women’s sporting event that allows men to participate—shouldn’t we stand up for women in sports?
AYATOLLAH TIME
By Richard Colman, California Political News and Views 6/1/23 www.capoliticalreview.com
Americans are not -– at least not yet -– living in a theocracy.
But the time may be approaching when government wants to tax and regulate everything.
American women are not barred from schooling, and they do not have to wear headscarves. But in many states, a woman’s reproductive freedom is being reduced or challenged. States in the so-called cotton south and in certain Rocky Mountain states are placing restrictions on the ability of a woman to obtain an abortion.
In Florida on Apr. 13, 2023, the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed legislation banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. On May 24, 2023, DeSantis announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Governors in other states have signed or are contemplating similar legislation.
DeSantis was in favor of legislation to regulate bloggers. Luckily, a coalition of conservatives, moderates, and liberals in the Florida state legislature defeated the attempt to regulate bloggers.
Whether one is for or against abortion, the individual woman, not government, must decide whether or not to have an abortion -– at least during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. From 1973 to 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade allowed abortion during these trimesters. The Roe decision was written by a Republican justice, Harry Blackmun.
And government interference does not end with abortion.
In Montana, the state government has decided to ban, beginning on January 1, 2024, the social medium TikTok. If the Montana government can ban TikTok, is the next step in Montana (and elsewhere) to ban newspapers, blogs, emails, certain places of worship, the freedom to assemble peacefully, and freedom of speech?
Adolf Hitler, Germany’s chancellor from 1933 to 1945, took similar repressive steps to thwart political and religious freedoms. Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union’s dictator from 1922 to 1953, took measures similar to those of Hitler.
America is currently not Iran or similar theological nations. But, in America, both Republicans and Democrats are trying hard to regulate human behavior and repeal constitutional protections.
The current base of the Republican party is strongly opposed to abortion, same-sex marriage, and woke policies -– policies that show favoritism toward certain ethnic minorities.
In California, a heavily Democratic state, there are plans to pay reparations to descendants of slaves. On Sept. 9, 1850, California was admitted to the United States as a free (non-slave) state.
In the American Civil War (1861-1865), and estimated 100,OOO military personal died on both the Union and Confederate sides. Should these deaths be considered part or all of a reparations plan?
Another aspect of government is support for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) as policy. Government is not the only entity promoting DEI. Certain bureaucracies, governmental and non-governmental, are asking various businesses and nonprofit organization about actions to employ DEI policies.
In certain states, such as California and Minnesota, state governments are pre-empting local communities from enacting zoning regulations. For example, state governments are telling local communities how much extra housing to build, and some of this housing has to be constructed for low-income people.
In California, a local community can be fined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) does not approve a given local community’s zoning plan. In addition, some state governments are suing local communities that are not complying with HCD rules.
In some states, local plans to build single-family, detached housing are being challenged by state governments.
Would state-housing mandates destroy such local communities as Chinatowns, Japantowns, and Koreatowns? In 1968, the federal government passed the Fair Housing Act, which bars discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Individuals should make their own decisions on places to live as long as there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, or sexual preferences. No one is forced to live in a community such as a Chinatown.
America, in the name of so-called equality, is becoming more and more like an Iranian theocracy.
Americans have fought wars to protect their freedoms. Is another war, perhaps a domestic one, about to begin?
