It’s Abortion Stupid

4-6-23

Paraphrasing the oft quoted Bush one campaign slogan, recent elections scream abortion is on the minds of voters. Elections in Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Montana and now Wisconsin are showing Republicans they had better come up with a better game plan if they intend to thwart the demise of our Republic. It’s abortion stupid!

I’m convinced that true polling of actual voters will show that the single most defining issue where they were on the fence as to who to select, was abortion or as these people call it, “women’s reproductive health”. You will find ardent fiscal conservatives crossing over to the “dark side” simply because they think abortion is a right, damn the child. That portends a crushing defeat in future elections, both state and federal, in light of the Roe v Wade case which moves the issue to state houses.

Step back and you see the usurping of elections laws allowing for all kinds of skullduggery, the crushing of our economy pursuing a false ideology of environmental disaster from fossil fueled energy, and a continuing stratification of our society into smaller “tribes” pit against one another. Using this issue fans the flame of polarization and is being used to augment the concerted effort to turn this country into yet another totalitarian state.

Is the current “opposition” prepared to counter this onslaught? Is the Republican party really an opposition party capable of standing up to the falsehoods being shoved down the country’ throat? Who will stand up and say killing babies is wrong in the face of losing their job (re-election) knowing that when they’re gone, they will be replaced with someone who will take our country further into decline? Tough stance and one that may win the moral argument but loses the war and results in total destruction.

Somebody had better come up with a position on abortion that will allow people on both sides of the issue room to express their beliefs. Is it only in the first trimester? When the pregnancy was the result of a criminal act? Most people would say the life of the mother is paramount so saving her with an abortion is justified. Is it? These and other tertiary issues must be reconciled if we’re to right the ship that is listing dangerously to capsizing.