In politics, the more things change the more they stay the same. And with the midterm political season in full swing, Democrats are once again turning to the old “war on women” trope.
In an effort to shore up their female base, Senate Democrats are planning on a few symbolic votes, including an “equal pay measure” to try to mandate “fair” wages. The problem is not just that a Republican-dominated House means the effort is doomed from the start. Nor that Americans increasingly recognize that the stale 77-cent “wage gap” statistic liberal feminists and Democrats cite as evidence of widespread workplace discrimination is grossly misleading. The biggest problem with Democrats’ plan isn’t even that the Paycheck Fairness Act was voted down in the Senate as recently as April, by a vote of 53-44.
