A word (or two) to J. D. Vance:
Now that you’ve allowed the world into your personal stuff, like your love of Mountain Dew and cuddle-up furniture, I think we all know you well enough for a little chat about motherhood.
You said, "The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,… How does it make any sense we've turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
You went on to eloquently add that the country was being run "by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too”.
Of course, you’re talking about Kamala Harris, a stepmom.
Seems that somewhere in your hillbilly upbringing, you got the misconception that motherhood always involves nine months of floating in a uterus, followed by a painful jaunt through the vagina into a world meant exclusively for white men.
But you would be wrong.
About 14 million women in this country are stepmoms. And they would argue that they didn’t have to give birth to their stepchildren to nurture them or have a “direct stake” in the future of this country. As a stepmom myself, I know the tears, fears, and cheers that come with the position, and I wouldn’t trade any of it simply to give biological birth to my stepdaughter. We may be reviled by the movies and evidently snubbed by you, but we, too, mold our stepchildren into solid members of society.
Obviously J. D., you believe in the fairy tale family unit: one dad, one mom, and a string of biological children. And that plays well in a world made of candy canes and gumdrops. In one wave of your hickory-stick magic wand, you have eliminated so many other choices that mold children into solid citizens and good people.
What about adopted kids? Fostered kids? And those who come into the world thanks to IVF? Are all these family units “miserable at their own lives”? Maybe you should talk to a few children who got a second chance at life because some alternative family unit took them in.
And while we’re talking about the family unit, J. D., why isn’t your party - the one so hung up on your ill-conceived definition of family — introducing legislation for pre and post-natal care to insure the health of mothers and all those babies your laws say must be born? Why aren’t you going after fathers of all these politically enforced births to make them support the child they also had a hand in creating? Why does your party always go after the mothers?
Sure, you tried to pass the Fairness for Stay-at-Home Parents Act, because you said, “If you work hard and play by the rules,” you should be able to “support a middle-class family on a single wage.”
But this plan didn’t include single moms, did it, and the 15 million children living in their households.
Finally, J. D., we all know your take on abortion: "I am pro-life. I want to save as many babies as possible…” You go on to add, ”It's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term. It's whether a child should be allowed to live.”
And then what?
Stick to your jokes about Mountain Dew, J. D., because from what I can see, that’s all you got.
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