Institutional Democrats fail their parenting tests at the dawn of the Dobbs era.
I grew up an hour outside Los Angeles in the Reagan era, so I don't know how this went in Texas. Tenth grade was when kids carried around raw eggs, or sacks of sugar or flour, or both to pretend they were caring for a baby. Kids took this on as part of"life skills" class; other kids were asked to interact with the"parents" as they would with someone holding a real newborn.
Old people like me remember the last time the GOP lined up a Supreme Court that they thought would overturn.
One option would have been an instant flurry of executive orders that use every tool in the federal toolbox to preserve abortion access in red states. Such was proposed by the congressional stand-in for the elders' actual children and grandchildren, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on her social media platforms this weekend – the place where wounded and enraged Americans came to vent over the first weekend of theera.
Not all of AOC's policy advice is fully cooked, but her campaign advice is usually solid. I tried to abide by her instructions in writing anto lay out who, specifically, you can vote or volunteer for or contribute to if you want to protect reproductive freedom. But the election is five months from now; much can be done before then.
But you know what this Gen X parent would have done this weekend? Put Harris onstage at a town hall where real people in a normal place in, say, Pennsylvania, could share with her and, through her, with the president and House speaker how losing their bodily autonomy feels, and let Harris share how losing. Instead, the elders' paralyzing fear of losing control – the same impulse that led Pelosi to come down here to endorse anti-abortion Rep.