False Choices Quotes

“But even before Obama had a chance to carve out a name for himself as a drone-happy serial killer in the Middle East, the US made it clear that it was not going to play benign hegemon in its Latin American backyard.”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

“A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children.”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

“The right to choose to abort a fetus is critical, as is the ability to effect that choice in real life, so it's great that Hillary Clinton wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But without welfare, single-payer health care, a minimum wage of at least $15--all policies she staunchly opposes--many people have to forgo babies they'd really love to have. That's not really a choice.

It seems ill-conceived to have tethered feminism to such a narrow issue as abortion. Yet it makes sense from an insular Beltway fundraising perspective to focus on an issue that makes no demands--the opposite, really--of the oligarch class; this is probably a big reason why EMILY'S List has never dabbled in backing universal pre-K or paid maternity leave; a major reason 'reproductive choice' has such a narrow and negative definition in the American political discourse.

The thing is, an abortion is by definition a story you want to forget, not repeat and relive. And for the same reason abortion pills will never be the blockbuster moneymakers heartburn medications are, abortion is a consummately foolish thing to attempt to build a political movement around. It happens once or twice in a woman's lifetime.

Kids, on the other hand, are with you forever. A more promising movement--one that goes against everything Hillary Clinton stands for--might take that to heart.”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

“WikiLeaks documents show that in 2009 her State Department collaborated with sub-contractors for Hanes, Levi's, and Fruit of the Loom to oppose a minimum-wage increase for Haitian workers.”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

“... undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Asia have much less mobility than the goods and services that are so freedly "traded" under legislation such as NAFTA.”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

“... the total numbers of state and federal inmates grew more rapidly under Bill Clinton than under any other president ...”
― Liza Featherstone, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton