Originally posted by: Charles Higgins
Which is why I brought it up, actually ( on my possible wager win, etc.) Who knows, but lord knows I'm sick of polls from all sources...don't trust them. I might have a small surprise for you regarding this wager, too. You'll have to wait until the outcome occurrs. Exciting, isn't it?
I'd vote for banning abortions with the standard well known exceptions, absolutely. I'd have a difficult time voting for someone who banned them 100%. With your charge here, you're insinuating that the abortion issue is the single most important decision voters have to make. Many Democrats do, and that's just fine. You do realize that, despite either of our stances on this issue, that the legislative process involved in forcing a ban is extremely unlikely to occur ( even if the R's sweep Congress next week)? The thing is, you can't and won't make my personal decisions for me, no matter how many labels you assign to me or how many intentionally degrading / manipulative statements you offer in my direction. It's not your business. If I make a voting decision that keeps me up at night, it'll be no skin off your hide. There's an entire cadre of issues that I personally believe are more critical. Clear enough?
Further, again you have no clue what my position might be on immigration. It's basically founded on old conservative ideas that you and others like to lambast here. Securing the border is the primary issue for me ( ohh, look..you'd already guessed that) , with a set of laws and procedures with some semblance of basic processing order. There's no way or means for you or anyone else to convince me that the current situation is anywhere close to that. I could list many other items on my personal immigration bucket list, which might include massive housing facilities for asylum seekers who would be required to get in line and follow a structured protocol. Expedient court decisions on those asylum cases would have to naturally follow that. This issue is so maximally complex that I'm not aware of even a portion of all the inputs. If you are, feel free to digress and educate us (try to minimize the ideological slant, please). Securing the border as described is the number one issue with me, and that event would have desirous and far reaching effects in many other areas. Clear? As mud? My supposed morality just took another dive, right?
So did I elevate my level of so-called morality ( as outlined by you, anyway)..or, alternatively am I simply now burning in the lake of fire? Any sneakily worded responses won't change things, btw.
Our current practices are built on protectionism, racism, and paranoia. I personally don't care, and I doubt most Americans do, whether that person picking fruit or making hotel beds is an ILLEEEEGULL. So fucking what? They're not hurting anybody. (And this is where a conservitard posts some lurid story about an illegal immigrant murdering 47 people.) The reality is that the "open borders" policy, which is decried by conservitards even though it's never existed, would be a good thing. Like the EU, we'd save billions of dollars yearly. How much money do we blow on border controls now? How much money does our racist, jingoistic trade policy cost us? You want to yeep about inflation, how about acknowledging that inspections and controls add 3 to 5 percent to the cost of imported goods? Racism and bigotry cost money.
Abortion isn't the number one issue because it directly affects considerably less than half the population. However, SCOTUS's decision that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't count endangers all of us, as does their decision that the states can decide if human rights exist or not.
So your gang gets a "stupid" for its border stance and a "fascist" for its abortion stance. Fundamentally wrong, in both senses of the word. You should be ashamed, and I sense that on some level, you are.