Via David Weigel of Hit & Run, comes a USA Today story about a $50 million advocacy program to discourage 19 to 29-year-olds from having sex.
There’s a winning slogan for the Republican party: We want you to have less sex!
I realize the “sinner” issues—internet gambling, sex, medical marijuana—are not really Republican-only issues, and the Democrats have voted along with a lot of this, but it’s the Republicans who are in charge.
I don’t really follow election politics that much, so I don’t really know why the Republicans seem to be headed for defeat in the House, but the Republican opposition to a traditional American value—fun—is part of why they deserve to be defeated.
Republicans don’t think “sinning” is fun unless it’s really treated like something bad. Basically they need fun to remain marginalized so it can still titillate them. Someday I will write a full-blown essay on this topic, that will explain PJ O’Rourke, Florence King and my boyfriend, but here is the short version.