"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Never the less, she persisted." - Senator Mitch McConnell
"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Never the less, she persisted." - Senator Mitch McConnell, referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren, when he caused her voice to be silenced on the Senate floor yesterday. I was horrified to hear him speak those words. What prompted his action? Sen. Warren was reading the words of Coretta Scot King, widow of Rev. Martin Luther King. Mrs. King's words spoke out against Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has now been confirmed as our country's new Attorney General.
Sen. McConnell's words may just become our new battle cry. Enough is enough, this man has forced another to hush up & stop speaking. In essence, we don't need to hear your voice, you're only a woman. This is the way I heard it, or felt what he was truly saying, when he silenced her. politi.co/2kJSbyk
Sen. McConnell may well hear his words repeated many times in the coming days.
So many things are happening these days. All of them unprecedented, unexpected & accomplished much too quickly.
But of this I am sure, I'm tired of old, Anglo-Saxon men. I don't like what they're doing to my country, my laws, my liberty, & my rights as a woman.
We have a new President, Donald J. Trump. A man put in office via the Electoral College, even though he arrived there with the minority vote of the American people. Out voted by almost 3 million, but still he's sitting there in the White House.
Whispering in his ear is Steve Bannon, a known White Supremacist & fervent fan of the teachings of Lenin. This is the evil power behind the throne, stroking our President's vanity, applauding & supporting him in the worst of actions.
Not yet a month in office, POTUS Trump is daily grinding out new laws that threaten our Democracy. Behind the scenes, or in blatent view, he is trying to change our country into an Autocracy. Who are the heroes of the POTUS? The leaders of Russia, North Korea, & the Phillipines are touted as strong & admirable men. They are also detestible dictators, murdering all dissenting voices, silencing the media, & ruling with iron fists. The economy of these countries, well, the people are poor & in the case of North Korea, often starving. Yet these are men that Trump admires.
Now some of the men that Trump has placed into high positions: Steve Bannon - Presidential Advisor, Jeff Sessions - Attorney General, Chuck Cooper - Solicitor General. All of them old, white, bigoted, homophobic, & wanting to take women back to the time when we were not allowed a voice. They'd be delighted to put & keep us back into the kitchen, barefoot & pregnant.
As I said, I'm tired, but I'm also sick of what's happening. So I'll just have to shout out from these pages.
Long ago Shakespeare wrote, "...she may be little, but she is fierce."
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