The GOP official party platform on pornography has been altered this year. According to this article in Buzzfeed, it’s been altered to call for a ban on ALL pornography, instead of just child pornography.
It was only a matter of time. Censorship advocates like “Morality in Media” have never been all that interested in limiting their control over what other people can say and do to child porn, they have ALWAYS wanted to suppress all forms of sexual expression outside a very narrow band (that is, practically none) and they have gotten the Republican Party to sign on for advocating a full frontal attack on porn.
Expect gender feminists to jump on the bandwagon as well.
Of course, the question is, how vigorously will the Republican Party attack regular adult porn? My feeling is, it’s no coincidence that the Republican Party has opened up the floodgates on porn. After losing decisively on gay marriage and getting their butts kicked electorally after their war on women, with marijuana legalization blowing in the wind, they’re looking for a new social issue to get the troops roused without getting their candidates seriously de-elected, and porn might just be it.
The Republicans NEED social issues because their stands on economic issues are extremely unpopular, as t hey all support the real business of the Republican Party, which is of course, making the rich richer and the poor poorer while destroying any social safety nets they can get their hands on.
Porn, they hope, with its arresting imagery and so forth, might just be the cover they need.
And historically, censorship campaigns have been most successful during times of economic stress, for example, the Great Depression started in 1929, and the Hayes Code went into effect in 1934. Could be be on the verge of a new period of censorship and control over adult imagery? Well, we will be if the Republican Party has anything to do with it, and I’m not so sure our Democrats will fight them with any real enthusiasm. The Democrats are in the thrall of Wall Street, too, THEY could use cover for their looting, and a donnybrook over porn could be Just the Thing to let leaders of both parties get their thievery on big time!