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Pat Buchanan Is Finally Fired From MSNBC

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SanFranciscoZionist2/16/2012 9:34:24 pm PST

re: #220 Gus

You know damn well that most of these damn pious hypocritical assholes in the House have had their asses saved on numerous occasions with the help of contraception and abortions. That’s how men work.

My area of study, back when I did a history BA, was early modern Europe. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment, ie, the era of the rise of the modern urban middle class. Contraception, in the forms that were available at the time, was commonly used throughout this period by the merchant class. People didn’t want no kids, they wanted five instead of ten. Few enough that you could give them apprenticeships and dowries to stay within the middle class, and not destroy the family wealth.

This pattern continues today in the United States. People want to have few enough children that they can preserve their standard of living, and, more importantly, pass on to their children the education and the funds they need to live in a similar manner as adults.

Making this about religion or women’s health is interesting, but this is more accurately about our ability to maintain a large, functional, middle class in this country. If you are against contraception being easily available to adult women, you are against the only actual triumph of capitalism: the creation and functioning of a merchant and professional middle class. If you are against contraception, you are against one of the most essential social patterns of the United States.

I know some people would like us to go back to farming, so we’d need big families to bring in the harvest, but those times will not come again in the U.S. unless there’s actually a total societal collapse.

We need birth control to be who we are, as much as we need paper, or electricity. People not having access to birth control would absolutely destroy this country.

Of course, that’s not the goal. The goal is to use this as a political football, and make people’s lives just a little more expensive.