You Should Love Your Daughters More Than Donald Trump
Voting MAGA When You Have Daughters is Psychotic
I’ve had discussions about politics before with family members about why they feel I’m crazy to vote Democrat. I’ve heard their usual semi-racist and bigoted reasonings until I wanted to jam icepicks in each of my ears. Or perhaps some duct tape for their mouths makes more sense.
“Don’t you worry about illegals crossing the border? They eat pets. They’ll murder and rape anyone they can get their hands on. You have daughters, doesn’t that scare you?”
“Don’t you want a return to ‘family values’? We’re a Christian nation, after all.”
“So you’d rather give all the high taxes you pay to people abusing the welfare system?”
I hear all of this Fox News propaganda from people I USED to respect, at least to some degree. It’s all I can do not to laugh or start raising my voice at them. So as a compromise, I start laughing loudly. In sort of an “I’m about to take over the world, and MUHAHAHA!” kind of way.
That usually throws the Bible-thumpers and gun-humpers off just a little bit. But they’ll pray for me.
I have two daughters and my Bride whom I love very much. These three people alone are reason enough that I’ll never vote Republican in this lifetime. My Bride is half-Vietnamese, one daughter is also part-Vietnamese, and my other daughter is gay. Enough said.
But assume I didn’t have three women from marginalized groups in my immediate family. There’s still no way on God’s-fucked-Earth that I’d ever vote for the GOP. I don’t want my daughters becoming handmaids and living in Gilead.
I care about other people far too much to ever consider such a thing. Republicans would have to get their shit together and change their party’s views in a big way for me to even consider it. It’s not even close to trending in that direction.
I am 100% pro-choice, as the father of two daughters and a human being with intellect and rationality. A woman’s body should be her fucking choice. No man should dictate what a woman can and can’t do with her own body. And don’t give me that bullshit that a clump of cells is a baby.
Or that Republicans even give a shit about that baby, its well-being, whether it’s hungry or has a roof over its head. They whine and complain about the tax money they pay going to people on welfare. They don’t give a damn about kids being hungry or having a decent place to live.
They don’t give a damn about these babies and small children they’re attempting to save from being aborted until they turn 18 and can serve a purpose in ‘Murica’s military. Then you’re welcome with open arms until you’re shipped overseas, anyway.
This is because the pro-life/pro-choice debate isn’t about the children at all. It’s about controlling women and putting them in their place. It’s also about “owning” the liberals.
You see, the Republican party is comprised mainly of people you wouldn’t invite to your own home. You certainly wouldn’t leave many of them alone with your children. I’m not calling Matt Gaetz or Lauren Boebert’s cock-exposing husband if I need a babysitter. And don’t get me started about ajudicated rapist Donald J. Trump.
They’ll tell you that gay people and drag performers are all groomers and pedophiles. But more of them that are actually caught work in churches, or are right-wing politicians. Check out the numbers and you’ll see which group of the two has more convicted sex offenders.
The GOP is the party of hypocrisy. Of being mean-spirited, judgmental people. And ones who are afraid of fucking EVERYTHING.
That’s why they are so adamant about having little to no gun control. Because they are so fearful of anything they are unfamiliar with or do not understand, they worship guns and ammo. They stockpile weapons, feeling that the entire country is doomed and that a civil war is coming soon.
Ammophiles would rather jerk off to their gun collections than participate in open discourse about how we can stop school shootings. They are against any steps to make the path to gun ownership more vetted and somewhat difficult. They don’t see the lunacy of an 18-year-old kid buying an assault rifle and driving to the first school he sees to slaughter small children.
“Thoughts and prayers to the families. GOBBLESS.”
The mumbling of this statement above is idiocy. It’s an easy, shitty cop-out to say when it doesn’t affect somebody you love. Until a child in their family is slaughtered in a hail of bullets, they will never change their minds. Even then, they likely won’t.
That’s because they are stubborn. It is not an attractive trait to be willfully ignorant. We have stressed the importance to our children of being kind, accepting, and being able to bend. To see the grey in life and not live so goddamned black and white.
This is why our kids have no interest in organized religion. They have observed how the GOP pushes their religiosity onto everyone they possibly can. They truly believe that America is a “Christian Nation” and that those practicing other religions are lost and bound for Hell.
Religion is like having a big dick. You can be proud of it. You can enjoy it. But when you start showing it off and shoving it in people’s faces who don’t want any part of it, then it’s a huge fucking problem.
I don’t mind people worshipping any god they want to. If it makes you a better human being, more power to you. Sadly this isn’t the case with most people who are staunch, vocal, conservative Christian believers.
When it starts to negatively affect me and mine, as non-believers in your far-fetched fairy tale, you can fuck right off. And it has NO PLACE in our government, affecting those who don’t share your same religious views. Believe whatever you choose to believe, but leave me the hell out of it.
These are the people who want to ban books from schools. They are the ones who don’t want kids learning about sex ed and think that the statue of David is pornography rather than a work of art. For a group of people who are so anti-abortion, you’re sure setting up your sons and daughters to fail in that regard.
But that’s the GOP. Keep ’em dumb, let’s vote anti-education, ban books, and create a new generation of willfully ignorant people who will be too uninformed NOT to vote red. They know that they are on the wrong side of history and that their party is dying.
Education matters. My daughters have been taught the importance of this and that’s why they’re excelling in college. They have learned not to live in fear, and paranoia, and to believe bullshit.
I’m proud of them. I want more for my daughters than for them to feel trapped in a male-dominated, ignorant society. They will lead, not follow.
This is why I’ll never vote Republican in any election. Because I love and care about the women in my family and our country. You should, too.
2024 Jason Provencio. All rights reserved.
No wonder the polls are close. 40 % of the country is fed a steady diet of Kremlin- RW Bullshit. They don’t even check to see if the food is rotten, just scarf it down with anger on their face and hate in their heart. The GOP and their swill pushers need to go down in flames; it will take awhile for the nation to heal. To be nornal again. After their demise. We cannot let up, we have to keep fighting, a real fight for our democracy and for our children.
Nothing is more dangerous than these 2 human characteristics:
Conscientious stupidity or sincere ignorance.
Martin Luther King Jr.