In retrospect, it's actually rather amazing that Doug Jones won that special election. Given these draconian, patriarchal, sexist laws they're passing, having an older male perv like Roy Moore preying on teen girls in shopping malls seems like something most AL voters would have no problems with.
Conventional wisdom holds that the rise of the religious right as a political force to be reckoned with during the 1970s and 1980s was driven by conservative Christians’ intense opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. But Dartmouth College’s Randall Balmer writes that “the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny.” He notes that “it wasn’t until 1979 — a full six years after Roe — that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but …. because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools.”
Abortion is a made up issue. Those fuckers in Alabama didn't care about abortion until the Religious Right teamed up with the GOP to devise the Southern Strategy, with the intent of legally maintaining segregating schools.
these dipshits get hoodwinked by these people repeatedly yet still vote them in. It's mind-boggling
https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/when-southern-baptists-were-pro-choice/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133#ixzz37ZUUJbXw
I reckon they double down on gays, birth control, pornography :noidea:
they love pseudo-morality around sex. Don't mind one bit about immorality with money, though, so the Wrangor's of the South and midwest will still get off on cutting programs and blocking UHC for the lazies who don't "earn" healthcare and work hard enough to house and feed themselves by just getting a banking or accounting job.
Not to turn this in to the abortion thread instead of a fun (scary?) look at insane people on the internet, but has anyone ever considered floating a ban on abortions in return for universal healthcare? I mean, if one side is so concerned about saving all these babies, why not make them pay for prenatal care for the mother and pediatric care for the child once it is born?
This is the whole story. This is trump. This is trickle down. This is endless war in the Middle East. This is broke Americans.
The crook party leveraged dead babies over gullible simpletons.
Not to turn this in to the abortion thread instead of a fun (scary?) look at insane people on the internet, but has anyone ever considered floating a ban on abortions in return for universal healthcare? I mean, if one side is so concerned about saving all these babies, why not make them pay for prenatal care for the mother and pediatric care for the child once it is born?
Wrangor, stop by and tell us how you feel about the Alabama law.
Speaking of...
https://www.al.com/politics/2019/05/alabama-bill-would-criminalize-false-rape-accusations.html
That's "not guilty", not innocent.