How does the attack on women's rights relate to the risk of fascism in the US ?

So…how does institutional sexism connect with the class war ( the rich have been waging on the poor, as Warren Buffet himself puts it)?

This extremism regarding women’s control over their bodies comes from the same crowd that seeks to cut the taxes of the super rich and big corporations even more, while trying to make labor unions even weaker, and pushing for cuts in funding for education and various social programs.

Religious conservatives are a significant part of the Republican base. Not only do some of them support, in a reactionary way, ‘traditional’ roles for women, but they also embrace theocratic views on US foreign policy ( ie holy wars against Islam) which gloss over how our military (and the lives and health of our service men and women) are used to further the corporate abuse of power.

Further still, some of them embrace moralistic explanations for social inequality, over-emphasizing the character flaws of individual poor folk, while overlooking the structural causes.

I’m not attacking religion, per se, but the use of religion to weaken governmental and corporate accountability. I wouldn’t be the first person to suggest that if fascism takes hold in the U.S. it is likely to be theocratic. As such, it might involve an attack on the ongoing project of achieving social equality between male and female human beings.

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