Do Countries Ever Learn From Their Pasts?

My answer to that is a very firm 'No',
particularly when they police the world
and have a sign on them which says
'Democracy for export, but not at home.'.

In the latest example of being driven by paradox 
(Republican) men in Texas have prohibited abortion,
a service in which women seek control of their bodies,
for every and any reason they want it,
not just after when they have been raped
or when the foetus will not live
and carrying it could end their lives.

This puts women who seek control of their fertility
in a similar position to the one that America
put makers of alcohol in over a hundred years ago.

We know what happened then,
the prohibition lasted thirteen years,
and continued after by criminal gangs,
who saw civil regulation and taxation
as 'against their interests' such that 
the biggest gangsters could only be caught
for laundering money and fraudulent accounting.

I look forward to women creating their own
enduring and altruistic networks
where they take care of each other
and resist the men who think they own the universe.

I look forward the slow breakdown
of contrarian patriarchal Politics from within.