Michael Moore Instagram – My friends, Roevember is coming!
There is a colossal uprising underway right now and it doesn’t involve an armed mob storming the Capitol, or a mass shooting at a July 4th parade, or guys I went to high school with trying to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
Rather, it looks like this:
Kansas.
Last Tuesday, when nearly two-thirds of that state voted to keep abortion legal, the turnout was so huge it nearly doubled the number of voters who participated in the last off-year primary election in 2018 — and nearly TRIPLED the turnout from 2014.
In the six weeks between the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade in June and the Kansas election on August 2nd, new voter registration in Kansas skyrocketed. And here’s the number that most media seems afraid to report: 70% of those newly registered voters were women.
And then there was this: Of those who showed up to vote in Kansas on Tuesday, a whopping 20% of them ONLY voted on the abortion proposal — and left the rest of the entire ballot BLANK!
If the patriarchy of the Republican Party, along with their white Supremacist co-horts and Catholic Church funders, didn’t understand the raging fire they had ignited, well, they do now. I mean, how angry, how committed do you have to be to drive to the polls on a near 100-degree day, stand in line for an hour — and then just go in and mark a single “X” on the ballot?!
Add to that the most-watched reality TV show of the summer, the mind-blowing January 6th Hearings, where middle America saw a president literally organizing a coup to overthrow their Democracy. And add to THAT, thanks to the Supreme Court (again), the NRA and one gun massacre after another, the American public was now no longer feeling safe sending their children to school, shopping while Black at a supermarket, or watching a parade. The people simply have had it — and Kansas became the first (but not the last) state where the citizens are now in full revolt.
Roevember is coming.
The Republican Party chose to commit a mass suicide of epic proportions with its allegiance to Trump… (Continue reading “Roevember Is Coming” at michaelmoore.com) | Posted on 08/Aug/2022 19:07:20
