Originally Posted by
Space Pirate Roberts
I for one would be a lot less enthusiastic about supporting a Democratic party that caved on abortion, and it's not even one of my top issues (although it is closely related to church-state separation, which is). We learned 70 years ago appeasement doesn't work. Remove this wedge, they'll just manufacture another one the same way they did abortion (learning that mainstream Protestants were by and large fine with it until the 70s, when a massive, concerted effort was made by clergy in cooperation with politicians to recast it as a form of murder for the express purpose of political exploitation, was a real mind-blower) and then we'll have people saying we need to capitulate on whatever that ends up being. No. That'll always be a losing strategy; as usual, the real answer is something much harder - getting people to see through wedge issue exploitation.
Guns I'm a little less firm on, mostly because what needs to happen realistically can't, at least without major cultural shifts happening first.
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