re: #70 mmmirele

And it is ABSOLUTELY DOOMED as long as access to abortion is a Democratic party platform plank and Evangelicals continue to be single issue voters on abortion. Even young Evangelicals (the more church-attending, the worse it gets) have bought into the anti-abortion position.

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Based on my experience, you can’t talk these people out of their belief. It takes personal impact to get them to rethink their view on abortion.

That’s true of almost everything, though. Mrs. FBW and I were talking the other day about characteristics of conservatives, and I pointed out their complete inability to understand anyone’s life experience being different from their own. They always think it’s about personal failing, till it hits them directly.

I used the example of the Cheney family and marriage equality. The only reason Dick Cheney supports marriage equality is because it affects his own daughter. But that effect didn’t even reach to her own sister.

There was also a guy on the Bowsite, who was as conservative as anyone there, till he lost his well-paid job and couldn’t find one for a while. And he got shit from some there for not taking shit jobs that paid less than his unemployment insurance.