The 2012 election should be about what’s going on in America’s
boardrooms, but Republicans would rather it be about America’s bedrooms.
Mitt Romney says he’s against same-sex marriage; President Obama just
announced his support. North Carolina voters have approved a
Republican-proposed amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex
marriage. Minnesota voters will be considering a similar amendment in
November. Republicans in Maryland and Washington State are seeking to
overturn legislative approval of same-sex marriage there.
Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced over four hundred bills in
state legislatures aimed at limiting womens’ reproductive rights –
banning abortions, requiring women seeking abortions to have invasive
ultra-sound tests beforehand, and limiting the use of contraceptives.
The Republican bedroom crowd doesn’t want to talk about the nation’s
boardrooms because that’s where most of their campaign money comes from.
And their candidate for president has made a fortune playing board
rooms like checkers.
Yet America’s real problems have nothing to do with what we do in our
bedrooms and everything to do with what top executives do in their
boardrooms and executive suites.
Read the whole story by Robert Reich
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