Heading into the midterm elections, part of the GOP’s unifying message is that “socialism” and “wokeness” plague the Democrats and are to blame for the splintered country.
“that the Women’s Lib movement has sealed its own doom by deliberately hanging around its own neck the albatrosses of abortion, lesbianism, pornography, and federal control.” “Women’s libbers” were the new national enemy, the proposed ERA an assault on the traditional American home. Speaking to the
in Cincinnati that same year, Schlafly called the ERA an “economic attack on the family” because, she reasoned, men would be out of work due to women taking their jobs. This kind of equity, she reasoned, was tantamount to communism.Joining the anti-gay wing of the family values movement was the singer and former Miss Oklahoma Anita Bryant. She and her supporters saw gay rights as the main cause for America’s anomie in the disco decade.
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