Opinion of Elizabeth Warren

[Lief 🗽]

I don't understand the hatred on the right towards Warren (well, I do: it's sexism, but still). None of the stuff she is saying is that controversial, is it? Do you folks seriously thinks banks should not be regulated? That agencies should not exist to protect consumers? That the corporations should be able to buy congressmen and their votes? It's not like the woman is some raging Marxist.

[Lief 🗽]

I don't understand the hatred on the right towards Warren (well, I do: it's sexism, but still).

Because obviously the Republican Party of the United States is a sexist organization.

Sarah Palin and Susana Martinez agree.

So do Nikki Haley & Kelly Ayotte & Kay Bailey Hutchison & Jan Brewer & Michele Bachmann & Marsha Blackburn & Susan Collins & Nan Hayworth & Mary Bono Mack...

There are also plenty of black and Hispanic Republicans. Doesn't make the party any less racist.

Anyway, I didn't say anything about the Republican Party. I was talking about American conservatism, which has an undeniable under current of misogyny (see also: the attacks on Sandra Fluke, the opposition to contraception and family planning, the opposition to equal pay laws, etc.). If Elizabeth Warren were a man, these denunciations of her would be nowhere near as vitriolic and personal.