'War On Women' Is Political Sloganeering

by JASmius



I have never understood why the Democrats' despicable "War on Women" meme worked in 2012.  It was always such ridiculously overwrought hyperbole, such absurdly strident nonsense that even Sandra Fluke should have laughed it off the front pages.  It speaks to the black hole of depravity into which the Left has successfully plunged American pop culture that it could get any traction at all, much less put over Barack Obama to the degree that he actually won re-election.

Well, it's two years too late and a couple trillion bucks short, but the American public, according to Scott Rasmussen, has finally awakened to it, for whatever that's worth (via Newsmax Insider):

Despite Democrats' claims to the contrary, a majority of Americans believe there is no political "war on women" being waged by Republicans, a new Rasmussen Reports poll reveals.

"War on Women" is a phrase some Democrats use to criticize Republican policies that they maintain limit women's rights in areas such as abortion, birth control, and workplace discrimination, Rasmussen notes.

In a survey of likely voters, 59% say the "war on women" is primarily a slogan used for political purposes, while 22% say there is really such a political war going on, and 19% are not sure.

Even a majority of women believe the phrase is political sloganeering — 52% feel that way, as do 65% of men, while 24% of women and 21% of men think there is really a political "war on women."

Not surprisingly, just 8% of Republicans believe there is such a war, compared to 38% of Democrats and 20% of those with other affiliations, and 75% of Republicans and 42% of Democrats say the so-called war is a political slogan. [emphases added]

This is no photo-finish.  This is not "controversial".  By a margin of thirty seven percentage points, the American people now believe and assert that the "War on Women" meme is every bit as fecal as we always knew and said it was.  Women believe and assert it by a twenty-eight point margin.  Only among Democrats is it remotely close, and still more call BS on it than still "bitterly cling" to it.

So what explains this mass eye-scale-shedding?  Part of it, I suspect, is the avalanche of Obama scandals and disasters that have buried the public's collective consciousness over the past year and which their criminally negligent votes made inevitable.  Benghazi, IRSgate, APgate, NSAgate, VAgate, etc.; the ObamaCare cataclysm, the ongoing economic depression, Cold War II, the five-jihadist-kingpins-for-a-deserter swap, the engineered Border Crisis, the rise of ISIS, the ebola pandemic, the Phony War in Iraq and Syria, with so many more blows and impacts to come.  When the true "War on Women" being waged by the Muslim world gets splattered all over the Internet in the form of no, none, zero, zip, nada, bupkis rights to even an education, to drive, to volitionally dress, to not be property, compounded by forced genital mutilation, torture, and mass murder for non-compliance, the puerile, infantile delusions of a pudgy, self-imagined sexpot like the aforementioned "Ms." Fluke disintegrate like a dildo in a blast furnace.  Then, when you figure in that the American Left are staunch allies of those waging that genuine "War on Women," condemnation of which gets one branded by them as an "Islamophobe," one begins to see the true lowly rung on the ol' ladder of "progressivism" that what used to be known as the "fairer sex" truly occupies.

Another part is probably that it's a retreaded meme.  It had its maximum, hand-waving influence in 2012 and the law of diminishing returns was inevitably going to kick in, even without the disastrous consequences of the second Obama term.

And then there's that aforementioned egregious mendacity factor:

Genevieve Wood, senior contributor to Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal, agrees that the "war on women" is political posturing and says it doesn't reflect our current reality.

In an article for USA Today, she points out that for every 100 college degrees of all kinds earned by men last year, women earned 140.

Referring to claims that women make 77 cents for every dollar men make, Wood writes that "when you compare men and women in similar jobs, with similar experience, education, years in the workforce, and hours worked, the wage gap all but disappears."

She also notes that studies show women control more than 50% of private wealth in the United States, and over 40% of the 3 million Americans earning more than $500,000 a year are women.

Some "war," huh?  At this rate of "attack," Obamerikastan will be an authoritarian matriarchy in very short order.  Indeed, it can be strongly argued that it already is.

At least until The One (formally) surrenders to the Global Caliphate, anyway.

Exit (rhetorical) question: When can we turn our attention to the real-as-the-roast-beef-Queen-Michelle-won't-let-us-eat-because-she's-already-stuffed-it-into-her-own-gaping-maw War on Men that the American Left has been waging with jihadian ferocity for the past half century?