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I feel like you may be a bit out of touch with rural / conservative America. Pro life is not an extreme minority opinion. You're free to argue it's an immoral

I feel like you may be a bit out of touch with rural / conservative America. Pro life is not an extreme minority opinion. You're free to argue it's an immoral or unjust opinion, or argue it's an opinion that is not internally consistent with their other political opinions.... But to downplay the size of the cohort to diminish the opinion is unproductive in reaching an amenable outcome.

bmitc 4y ago
I am not downplaying it. It is a minority opinion by any poll I have ever seen. It's just that it may not be a minority opinion in certain areas or groups which have unequal power due to gerrymandering and the electoral college. (Again, the U.S. is not a democracy.) So again, by any account I have ever seen on abortion, these folks are the minority by numbers. This minority has long been in use, abused, and stirred up by corporate America and the conservative right. If the U.S. was a true democracy, these people would likely not be getting their way hand over foot. So, I don't think it's myself who is out of touch. I came from rural America. I went to high school with people and my extended family who all are still there. I would consider rural America out of touch with basically anyone else in the world. They want to drag down America with nostalgia for a dream that never existed while they vote for the very people who put and keep them in the predicaments they are in. They and the Republicans are as un-American as it gets. Nothing they stand for is inline with the constitution or America's principles.