Shaming women for not being baby factories and the LGBT folk who don't become parents has been the standard MO of the neo-con since Lee Atwater made "Southern values" the clarion call-cum-dog whistle of Reagan's Southern strategy in the 1980s. Lee Atwater (d. 1991) was the grandfather of mainstreaming white Christian nationalism in the GOP, turning the secular GOP into an extremist religious and natalist party. JD Vance is his spiritual and intellectual scion and aspiring heir.
Somehow I got on JD Vance's email list and have received 3 requests for money. The subject headings for these emails:
1. Why are we listening to childless cat ladies?
2. No more cat ladies--a subject heading followed by a rhetorical question asking why we're turning over our country to people who have no direct stake in it--meaning the childless.
3. The childless left is ruining America. [If any one group is ruining America, I am inclined to say it is the people who reproduce irresponsibly--they have children but don't provide for them either physically or emotionally. ]
Great post, Jeet. It's been... interesting to watch Vance run the troll-to-the-top strategy that seems to work for so many on the right. He looks and sounds massively out of place.
Krugman is obsessed with his own belief system and little ability to have empathy with those who disagree (generally wiser people). He is clearly a nutcase and "Cat Lady" related to certain women who become obssessed with cats and present a superiority associated with such cats and all things related to the feline culture.
Cat ladys have a high probablity of being teachers or journalists. People who dont listen but preach...It actually suits Krugman well. His Keynsian - Democrat fanaticism is his obession.
Shaming women for not being baby factories and the LGBT folk who don't become parents has been the standard MO of the neo-con since Lee Atwater made "Southern values" the clarion call-cum-dog whistle of Reagan's Southern strategy in the 1980s. Lee Atwater (d. 1991) was the grandfather of mainstreaming white Christian nationalism in the GOP, turning the secular GOP into an extremist religious and natalist party. JD Vance is his spiritual and intellectual scion and aspiring heir.
Somehow I got on JD Vance's email list and have received 3 requests for money. The subject headings for these emails:
1. Why are we listening to childless cat ladies?
2. No more cat ladies--a subject heading followed by a rhetorical question asking why we're turning over our country to people who have no direct stake in it--meaning the childless.
3. The childless left is ruining America. [If any one group is ruining America, I am inclined to say it is the people who reproduce irresponsibly--they have children but don't provide for them either physically or emotionally. ]
Great post, Jeet. It's been... interesting to watch Vance run the troll-to-the-top strategy that seems to work for so many on the right. He looks and sounds massively out of place.
Krugman is obsessed with his own belief system and little ability to have empathy with those who disagree (generally wiser people). He is clearly a nutcase and "Cat Lady" related to certain women who become obssessed with cats and present a superiority associated with such cats and all things related to the feline culture.
Cat ladys have a high probablity of being teachers or journalists. People who dont listen but preach...It actually suits Krugman well. His Keynsian - Democrat fanaticism is his obession.
And if I remember, Kevin Drum once wrote that cat owners tend D and dog owners R. So there may be another layer of innuendo.