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What the stem cell issue is “really” about:

It is not about life, not about conception, not about religion, the soul or spirit, no reason nor science nor logic will matter one wit because it’s all about the last gasps of a displaced rural and working class population who are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore. Something should be done about the real concerns of rural and working class people being displaced by global and technological forces. But that would cost money and symbolism is cheaper, also real mobilization could threaten the power structure or require real change. The Democrats could undercut the Christian right by serious attention to their real needs but doesn’t seem to want to do that.

The stem cell issue is mostly hypocrisy and politics. There is a powerful “right to life” lobby that swings a lot of weight in Republican primaries, with the Christian Coalition working hard to control the party apparatus, and elections can be won or loss on their issues. In order to maintain their position against abortion, life must begin at conception as an article of faith. It does not come from doctrine but is made into doctrine. WHY?

They don’t really care about life – or they would think about the death penalty, would be less military adventurous (they supported the war in Vietnam), drive safer, control deadly weapons, worry about tobacco, public health and world hunger, Aids, etc. They don’t care about religion or they would be more Christian, they don’t care about what others think or do – it is all about frustration, anger, and acting out. It is an expressive not functional activity. That nothing results doesn’t matter.

What they care about is: the loss of millions of well paying jobs and status by white males with limited skills and education. Some of whom become dependent on their wife’s income or she is making more than he is.

The domination of white rural and industrial working males over women and minorities is important. Like the anti-hero in a streetcar named Desire; lower class men from rural and working class backgrounds don’t have much social status. They can take comfort in the status of being at least a white male – with a clear pecking order over white females of the same class or lower and have them do the woman’s work, then both white women and men have it over black males, at the bottom under black females (who do the most unpleasant tasks) are Chinese and other non-while foreigners left to tot and heave at the underside of the social order.

Above the hill billies, poor white trash, trailer park underprivileged is everyone who takes advantage of them, those who look down on them, people who think they are better than them because of a skilled occupation, education, urban white-collar professionals, and the all the media, professors and bosses that are disliked sometimes hated.

Abortion upsets the social structure – women are not barefoot, dependent and pregnant. Uppity women, then blacks don’t know their place, and their fragile hold on social standing is gone with the winds of change. Sex, drugs, rock and roll – reform churches, liberal politics or education – the CULTURAL WAR – was focused on the anti-Viet man hippies but shifted to abortion after that issue became moot along with the religion of being anti-communist.

Second, in social and psychological motivation after status is feeling part of some group – being a Limbaugh ditto head, a raving evangelical, a die hard go Pat go right wing fanatic, are signs of the true believers who define themselves in activities for some cause. Some Anti-Globalisation protesters are displaced youth who need a cause. A hopeless cause has advantages; a minority position defines the insiders and separates them from the dreaded “other”, it makes it special and straightens group solidarity.

So there is no reason here to debate the facts. Reason doesn’t matter. Politicians will continue to pander to the prejudices of activist as long as their votes count. The gun issue overlaps and the two together really matter in getting elected over the south and west, and are important elsewhere. So elected congressmen will babble the most complete nonsense, serious journalist and commentators will look for meaning, the President will pretend to think deeply, about nothing – all fake and fraud, where the emperor is in his old underwear but no one notices.

It is not about life, not about conception, not about religion, the soul or spirit but about the last gasps of a displaced rural and working class population who are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore.

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