tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28307399.post2022976632935793489..comments2023-10-24T07:18:25.891-07:00Comments on Enlightened Layperson: What Is It About Contraception?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28307399.post-19398866221632833502011-08-21T14:16:13.328-07:002011-08-21T14:16:13.328-07:00Except that a lot of these authoritarians are peop...Except that a lot of these authoritarians are people who openly hate the poor and make no secret about it. (Have you seen Jon Stewart's latest piece on the sort of class warfare Fox is openly waging?)Essayist-Laywerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04888789551503637986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28307399.post-37153013289018895092011-08-21T09:50:50.183-07:002011-08-21T09:50:50.183-07:00Another possibility is that authoritarian leaders ...Another possibility is that authoritarian leaders correctly perceive contraception as a long-term route out of poverty and want to deny it to their followers as a way of keeping them poor and dependent. They come up with explanations for their followers to justify why contraception is evil, but those explanations are really just stories. The leaders have no problem breaking the rules because one of the core tenets of authoritarianism is that rules are for little people.Roger Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07864369467434809400noreply@blogger.com