Weak Minds for Harris
The Harris campaign put out ad telling women it’s okay to hide who they’re voting for from their spouses and while it was certainly a choice, like so many things in the Harris campaign it was a bad one on multiple levels.
Let’s just set aside that the ad tacitly admits that Harris can’t get the rural male vote because that comes across clear as crystal since the point of the ad is for women to hide their votes rather than convince their husbands to agree with them in supporting Harris and Walz.
So much for the men for Harris being a thing.
Instead let’s talk about the opening line because WTF mate;
“In the one place in America where women still have the right to choose”.
What the shit does that even mean?
Do women not get to choose where to go to school, what careers to pursue, or where they want to live?
Are we a nation of child brides being sold by their fathers for a few goats or to strengthen alliances? Is the choice of divorce off the table now?
Did overturning Roe magically end interstate travel and make every Blue State and Deep Blue City instant theocracies thereby ending the only “choice” the left really cares about because abortion is typically the only time “choice” is weaponized in such a way.
The Democrats don’t want women to have the choice to arm and defend themselves. They don’t want you choosing your child’s school. They certainly don’t believe in your choice to opt out of their preferred medical tyrannies. Heaven forbid you choose to listen to the wrong ideas that they label mis, mal, or dis-information.
So what else could they mean when they say that women no longer have the right to choose in America outside of the ballot box?
That said, I don’t understand what the line even means in the context because it can’t apply to Roe using the left’s own logic considering that they think the term “woman” is a self-identifiable label not tied to biology, let alone reproductive issues.
So yeah, WTF.
But somehow the ad doesn’t end any better than it starts.
We’re left with the idea that what happens in the voting booth stays in the booth, alongside the clear narrative point of women lying by omission to their husbands over their vote, which is as insulting to women as it is in line with the tenor of the Harris campaign.
A campaign that seems to revolve around women making bad choices, in this case the bad choice of who they married.
The same people who want you to pick political fights at Thanksgiving now want to pretend that it’s unsafe for women to talk politics openly at home.
I don’t know, if the point of this ad was to show that women are so weak willed and fragile that they can't articulate or justify their preferences to their husbands - men they chose to spend their lives with - it becomes less of an ad for Harris and Walz and more of an ad to repeal the 19th Amendment.
If the Harris campaign is saying that women aren’t strong enough to stand by their beliefs and convictions when dealing with the person they should be able to trust the most in the world, how does one justify the idea that a woman is then strong enough to be President.
What am I missing because all things considered it reads like the Harris campaign is saying that they can't win unless voters lie and betray the trust of the people closest to them and that’s certainly not a strategy I had on my 2024 bingo card.
Cheers.