The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization transformed the politics of abortion, turning an issue that once mattered most…
This is what Republicans don’t understand. The more tightly they try to squeeze, the more the future will be exactly what they don’t want. Pushing an unpopular position this hard will only make people consider even more extreme versions of the opposing opinion.
I mean, it’s a very good point – why should the government have any say? It’s antithetical to what libertarians and small government proponents say.
Republican politicians don’t actually care about abortion, they’re just using it for the controversy. If anything, they like this since the fight is what fires up their base and drives them to the polls.
It’s much worse than that. The anti-abortion drive is anti-woman. Sure, it’s a wedge issue for some politicians, but overall it’s about rolling back women’s rights until they’re domestic non-citizens who depend entirely on their father, brother, uncle, husband. The anti-abortion drive also has the benefit of pleasing the ones who hate the poor, as the poor women are the most affected, while rich ones can “find ways around” the bans. In the US, that combines with racism too.
what they pass is useful to them and their donors. They are also less interested in passing bills and rather confirm judges, privatize services, and remove regulatory oversight. The point is making it easier to commit white collar crime.
its a divider issue they don’t give a shit they just know they can maintain the religious vote with it while they rob everyone blind. They’ve also figured out making places not worth living in for progressives will drive them out of their districts.
The goal is not to set things up and then sit down and be happy. The goal is to eradicate democracy and control the US until they die, at home and surrounded by their harems.
reagan was the era of “let’s build a future for nazis”. We are in that future. Now it is all about short term gains until they never have to have another election again.
This is what Republicans don’t understand. The more tightly they try to squeeze, the more the future will be exactly what they don’t want. Pushing an unpopular position this hard will only make people consider even more extreme versions of the opposing opinion.
I mean, it’s a very good point – why should the government have any say? It’s antithetical to what libertarians and small government proponents say.
Republican politicians don’t actually care about abortion, they’re just using it for the controversy. If anything, they like this since the fight is what fires up their base and drives them to the polls.
They do this with everything. They never pass any useful bill, they just go for easy shit to rile people up.
It’s much worse than that. The anti-abortion drive is anti-woman. Sure, it’s a wedge issue for some politicians, but overall it’s about rolling back women’s rights until they’re domestic non-citizens who depend entirely on their father, brother, uncle, husband. The anti-abortion drive also has the benefit of pleasing the ones who hate the poor, as the poor women are the most affected, while rich ones can “find ways around” the bans. In the US, that combines with racism too.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/15/1857976/--The-Only-Moral-Abortion-is-My-Abortion-an-article-by-Joyce-Arthur
The essence of conservatism being: “rights and liberty for me, but not for thee”
what they pass is useful to them and their donors. They are also less interested in passing bills and rather confirm judges, privatize services, and remove regulatory oversight. The point is making it easier to commit white collar crime.
its a divider issue they don’t give a shit they just know they can maintain the religious vote with it while they rob everyone blind. They’ve also figured out making places not worth living in for progressives will drive them out of their districts.
They don’t care.
The goal is not to set things up and then sit down and be happy. The goal is to eradicate democracy and control the US until they die, at home and surrounded by their harems.
reagan was the era of “let’s build a future for nazis”. We are in that future. Now it is all about short term gains until they never have to have another election again.
That’s what they want. They want extremism.
It shows how much they lack self-awareness, since they themselves only double down when told “no.”