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sun posted: Sun 2018-11-04 14:41:17 tags: n/a
My far-right-wing cousin's vile hate-spew troubles me so much that I can't help but try to engage, but I don't think there's a way to really get them thinking without stooping to the same black-and-white shit-splatter. Abortion isn't a "democrat" pastime. Republicans buy their mistresses abortions too (when they're not cavorting with rentboys, who of course have the advantage of never needing abortions). You oppose abortion? Then stop trumpeting the patriarchist narratives that lead to unwanted pregnancy, and start supporting universal healthcare, sex education with a track record of reducing teen pregnancy (hint: it's not "abstinence"), make higher education affordable again, fund prompt processing of rape evidence kits, etc.

You definitely don't get to claim a smug moral high-ground when your demigod-hero is a compulsive liar, one whose only god in evidence is Mammon, one whose history is riddled with adultery and fraud, whose closest advisors and confidants are continually being exposed as criminals, whose platform consists of dog-whistles and innuendoes and incoherent word salads. If that's your partisan figurehead then all the precious bleating about abortion can only be a smokescreen to divert attention from something at least as ugly in yourself. And if you're unconcerned with violence threatened or visited to born persons, then screeching accusations at "democrats" or "liberals" about violence visited on unborn, insensate clumps of cells tells me your values are upside-down.