Hypocrisy in Action

We've had some shoes drop but we still haven't had the big one drop yet.

The fact that the dontard is a liar and a womanizer is actually not surprise to anyone, or at least hardly anyone.

One the reasons he even got elected were the lies he spread about his opponents both in the primaries and the general election.

Still we are waiting for something akin to a smoking gun and the issue with that is that he has a lot of co-conspirators or at least enablers.

You see so many Republican politicians who even if a bit reluctantly who jumped on the bandwagon, putting personal gain ahead of the countries best interests.

They were overcame any ethical qualms they may have had and even abandoned some long held policies such as free trade in order to win primaries and hold on to their seats, maybe.

Primaries in both parties are a real distortion of the countries wishes since the number of voters is so small and it can be swayed by radical voters who show up to vote.

A small number of people who are adamant about an issue can sway a primary fairly easily nominating someone who is not in fact representative of the majority of that parties members.

The only way to fix that and to fix similar issue in the general election would be to make voting much easier or even mandatory so we actually had people who represented the majority.

You see however efforts at voter suppression by Republicans who know that they represent a small percentage of the electorate, generally the wealthier and whiter ones.  They are trying to suppress democracy in order to maintain control over the process.

Its so they can continue to line their pockets and those of their donors while they spend recklessly and reduce taxes to burden the future.

Its the face of greed and evil, but its fine with the evangelicals of this country.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Single Issue Voters

There are voters who really only care about a single issue.

These issues inspire a level of passion that makes other behavior and issues irrelevant.

Perhaps the most divisive is the opposition to abortion.

Simply put if you consider abortion to be murder, it becomes an evil that has to be stopped.

The only discussion possible is whether it is in fact murder and if you have already decided it is, not much can be said.

Realistically we wouldn't accept murder for any excuse, and while for those who consider a fetus a non-human until after birth, the argument is simply not going to persuade anyone.

The logical approach here is to make abortions unnecessary via sex education and birth control, but of course it won't always be effective in 100% of the cases.

Clearly a women has rights over her own body and the question becomes at what point does the fetus also gain legal status?

No one would accept a women having the right to murder an infant.  So the clear dividing line is birth.

Clearly the fetus becomes a baby at some point and to religious folks that is when it gets a soul.

Many believe that a soul is created when the egg and sperm match up.

If you believe that abortion is simply murder.

For people who support choice, they don't accept that or may not believe that souls even exist.

Many I believe feel as I do, it would be better if there were no abortions, but the women has the right to decide what to do, not someone imposing their belief system.

So to some extent abortion becomes entangled in first amendment protections, since the main arguments to prohibit it are religious ones.

Still, the point is that abortion opponents do feel that they oppose murder and aren't going to change their position anytime soon.

This single issue provides a large block of evangelicals and others to the anti-abortion candidate.

It makes them will to vote for a hypocritical, lying, adulterer with very little actual consistency in his positions.
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