Over at Mother Jones, Katie Herchenroeder writes about the new conservative love affair with tightening up divorce laws:
The right has long pushed policies to enshrine a specific view of marriage. But the open discussion of making divorce harder has—in large part because of dudes online with podcasts and politicians who want to appeal to dudes who listen to dudes on podcasts—become more obvious over the last year.
....When I initially set up a Google Alert for “no-fault divorce” last summer, the news was pretty sparse. Now, I’m getting updates daily.
This just goes to show that dudes with podcasts don't represent much of a constituency. Here's the data on how many people agree that we should make it harder to end a marriage:
Virtually nobody is in agreement with the online bros, and that's true for all ages, races, genders, and education levels. Before long, Americans are going to believe that if you want to end a bad marriage all you should have to do is jump over a broom and say "I'm divorced."
Still, I guess we should ask Donald Trump how he feels about this. Melania too.
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Making it harder to get a divorce does NOT make it harder to end a marriage. The marriage ends when one partner gets up and leaves. The divorce, which comes later and sometimes MUCH later (I've known divorces to be granted as much as 23 years after the unhappy couple separated), is simply judicial recognition that the marriage has ended.
100 years ago in England the law was that a divorce could be granted after desertion for a period of no less than 20 years. You could not remarry or enter a relationship legally--you could be arrested for adultery, even if your spouse walked out on you 10 years ago.
In Scotland the same applied, but the period was a more humane five years.
Adultery is no longer a crime, as far as i know, anywhere in the US. That means the separated spouses can form new relationships, they just can't remarry.
Judicial recognition is a big deal. It allow one to re marry, which gives significant legal rights and protections to the new partner.
The sheer number of common-law couples says that marriage is not that big a deal.
It's not just rando podcast dude bros. The "end no-fault divorce" movement is being funded by Leonard Leo, Rupert Murdoch, etc. Same thing with the recent mansplaining of birth control side effects. With their victory against abortion rights, they think they can also curbstomp birth control and no-fault divorce (over half of all no-fault divorces are filed by women so ending no-fault divorce would further erode women's rights.)
These "conservative" (aka "reactionary nutcase") dudes sure do hate women. Wonder why? Was Mommy mean to them?
Mommy probably screwed up their "toilet training", and they can't let it go.
Rupert Murdoch who has been divorced 4 times?
Who knew their strong incel energy wasn't popular?
Incels are just soooo predictable.
The d00dbro contingent of this alliance who want to go back to chattel ownership of women are just idiots, tactically speaking. Going after a power that empowers men as much as women strongly dilutes your support up-front at the same time it gives away the game.
But I guess that shouldn't be any surprise. The leader of those shitheads accidentally bought a social media company because he's a tactical idiot.
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I have a relative who is Wiccan. Leaving aside the pseudohistory and hazy bullshit, I rather like their viewpoint here. Instead of "till death do us part," they say "for as long as the love shall last."
Wasn't it Saint Paul who said, "better to marry than to burn in hell"? Pretty much captures conservative's view of marriage. By the way, Saint Paul did not know Jesus, he never even met the man.
If their goal is to end no-fault, then one can counter this by pushing to ban prenups, right?
This isn't about making divorce harder; it's about making it easier for men to divorce women without paying out.
It's about making it harder for women to divorce men. Men can just go out and get some on the side.