What would Andrea Dworkin say about current events in America?

Last night, Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Supreme Court Justice. This is a lifetime appointment. Amy Coney Barrett brings with her a bag full of right-wing agendas, including overturning women's rights, overturning racial justice, overturning LGBTQIA+ rights, and overturning the Affordable Care Act. 
Women have fought so hard to make the progress that we've made, and in a very short time, all of that progress has been threatened. Many are scared of losing their basic human rights. Outrage permeated social media, and the sound was deafening. 

Andrea Dworkin was among the mothers of second wave radical feminism. Her works inspired many of today's feminists, including myself. Dworkin devoted her life to resisting male supremacy, and while Amy Coney Barrett is a woman, she follows a patriarchal rhetoric. Donald Trump chose Amy Coney Barrett because she is an easily manipulated mouthpiece who freely submits herself to men. 
"Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination." -Andrea Dworkin

Trump also chose her because she would help him raise more money for his campaign. He is objectifying this handmaiden in order to win some dick-measuring contest against Biden. 
"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice." -Andrea Dworkin

Trump is feeding the masses with false hope, that the pandemic is almost gone and it is no longer a threat. He is also feeding these people with "fake news" about the Democrats, saying that we are "losers."
Andrea Dworkin would tell you: 
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of the common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
We are a slave system under Trump. He isolates those who happily follow him, from those who don't follow him at all. He obscures the reality we are all facing right now, and he claims that Biden is an oppressor and his followers need to rebel. Trump is the quintessential slave owner. 

Andrea Dworkin would tell Americans:

• "It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when, what has been imposed on women by force, becomes a standard of freedom for women; and all the women say it is so."
• "Male supremacy is fused into language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."
• "Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer, and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman."
• "Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out, nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not."
• "Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more-also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth."
• "Men have constructed female sexuality, and in doing so, they have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeited for women."
• "Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroyed in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power."
• "Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather to be victimized by it."
• "Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class."

Andrea Dworkin may have passed away in 2005, but her words are timeless. We need to heed her words and fight for our lives. Under a phallocentric tyranny, we are not safe. We must "Resist" this tyranny. We shouldn't "comply" with the current government we have. We need to make a change, and that starts with standing up, and voting. 

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