You say that like it's a bad thing, ecco. *I* want abortion made unthinkable. That has to come from within the culture, not imposed by law from without, but it's becoming obvious to me that something has to be done. Me, I'm all for 'choice.' However, as soon as another human life is involved in that choice, I figure that one has made the choice and now has to deal with the consequences of it.
You are correct. Many conservatives want abortion banned. Many don't. The reason you illustrated my point regarding liberal bias is...I'll take your points individually.
Yes. Some do. Not all do. I want it...not 'banned,' but something no woman would think of doing, and few women would have to do because they were responsible BEFORE they had sex, and the only reason for an abortion would be danger to the physical life of the mother or her having been raped. (thus her choice was taken from her).
Some do. Most don't...and while the liberals characterize "they want school prayer instituted,' they mean 'school prayer at the beginning of every single class in public as well as private school, prayer to the evangelical Protestant version of God," most conservatives simply want students to have the freedom to pray themselves, on campus...to have religious school clubs that are treated like all other student clubs, and to be allowed to mention personal faith in graduation speeches. They resent very much being forbidden their own ability to pray when those same schools set aside rooms for the express purpose of allowing Muslim students to perform their Salat. That happened in the high school I went to, AMOF; two students were suspended for silently praying near the flag pole (they were not allowed to go into an empty classroom for this purpose, but Muslim students...and we have quite a few Muslims in the valley here...were given a room for the specific purpose of Salat. As far as I am aware, that classroom is still set aside for that purpose. I DO NOT OBJECT to the classroom for Salat.
I DO object to Christians being told that they can't have equal privileges to pray.
Nobody with any sense wants official school prayer, and frankly? I don't know many conservatives who want that either. As LDS, I certainly would prefer that my kids, if there is praying to be done, do it 'right,' and evangelicals (and most others) don't do it 'right." What we want...what all of us want...is the freedom that the First Amendment guarantees: that the state STAY OUT OF IT, and allow us to live our religions as we believe. That means...give the Muslims a room for Salat. Let Christians have religious after school clubs. Let students who feel the need silently pray by the flagpole...or in a place reserved for that. Give that to all religions...and allow those students who have none go merrily on their way without being forced to sit there while someone prays either correctly or incorrectly.
I believe that most conservatives would agree with this.
That's your problem...and your privilege. Freedom of religion also means that you can exercise your own beliefs, and if "under God" offends them, then you have the right not to say it.
BTW, The original pledge did not have 'under God' in it, and I, personally, wouldn't mind going back to the original.
That's your political problem. On the other hand, I am not really happy with "Let's gut Social Security to fund the VietNam War" Johnson, "Let's get stupid with the economy" Carter, "I can rape, molest and do anything I want with any woman I want and then lie my assets off, and while I'm doing that, I can rob the Mormons blind, take all their land and end up doing worse for it and the ecology around it than they and the native Americans I took it from did, and everybody will love me anyway" Clinton (OK, other than that he wasn't all that bad), or "Let's make sure that healthcare premiums explode for the middle class and make it almost impossible for them to GET insurance, never mind pay for it, and I spent twenty years listening to the most racist preacher on the planet but I wasn't affected by that one little bit" Obama...
Yeah, the Republican presidents also had their problems...but Nixon ENDED the Vietnam war, Reagan ended the Cold War, and Bush handled some very nasty national emergencies pretty darned well.
I am not a Republican, btw.
And left wing sheeples believe anything that Pelosi, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez sneeze.
Some don't. Some do. Most understand that the climate is changing, but that humans...though they may exacerbate it, are not solely responsible. Nor can killing off 9/10s of the human race and going back to hunter-gathering fix it. Nor do they believe, as a whole, that it's fair to blame the USA for it (and they do...) when in fact India and China produce more greenhouse gasses than America and the EU combined.
From Forbes magazine:
Some do. Some belong to unions. I am a fan of unions which deal fairly with both workers and employers. I am NOT a fan of those (and I was forced to belong to one for years) which not only make membership mandatory for workers in specific areas (teacher's union) but gather dues and use them for political purposes that are directly opposed to the membership in general. I am opposed to unions which are politically biased...and unfortunately, most are.
Conservatives, as a rule, would agree with the above, I believe.
No. You have committed a bunch of fallacies here...most of which are included under 'generalization."
Yes, there are extreme right wingers who are global warming deniers, who bomb abortion clinics and want to make all public schools into Protestant religious schools.
On the other hand, I can point to liberals who are literal communist/socialists, who want the government to take the wealth from everybody and distribute it as they decide, who want to go the way of Greece and Venezuela, thinking that even though history has shown that their economic and political ideas simply don't work, that somehow THEY can make 'em go. I can point to liberals who want to ban all religion from the country...they believe that it is 'freedom FROM religion, not freedom OF" so that they have the right to impose their beliefs and practices upon everybody...even more than some militant religious group might. These are those who sue people for putting crosses on their lawns at Christmas, who want to remove the non-profit tax provisions from anything even remotely related to a religion, who believe that children should be taught in school that there IS no God, and who believe that only the 'appropriate' humans should be allowed to reproduce, so that the population of the earth can be cut to the point that hunter-gathering would sustain the remaining people. Of course, they get to determine who is 'appropriate."
I can point to them, but I don't think you would agree that their attitudes comprise the whole, or even the majority, of liberal thought, would you?
But that's what YOU are doing to the right, and that's why I said you illustrated my point, which was that you are very biased, to the point of being unwilling to even look at what the 'other side' might say. You are swallowing the kool-aide too, ecco. Just a different flavor, is all.
