Voting is a package deal and it's quite obvious that westerners outside of the US have close to zero understanding of cultural issues, especially abortion. They

Voting is a package deal and it's quite obvious that westerners outside of the US have close to zero understanding of cultural issues, especially abortion. They'll whine about it but they never understand that for quite a large segment of the group they keep calling stupid, abortion is the wholesale slaughter of millions of babies year after year. This is not a shallow belief. It is deeply held for these people. If you don't view abortion that way, you'll just call them stupid and add it to your list of things you feel superior to them about and continue to not understand them in the slightest. Which leads people to make statements such as the one you did about people making irrational fiscal related votes when that might not have even been in their top five issues. Until you can understand the abortion issue beyond the glib dismissive "they want to control women's bodies" you will continue to not understand the people you are talking about. That understanding might not be important to you but if it is, then you must not reduce them to whatever single variable judgement you want to extrapolate into matching your viewpoint, especially when that single variable might not be of high importance to them.