RiverDog wrote:Glad to see you dip your toes in here again.
The court is here to stay. That 6-3 advantage isn't changing for another 8-10 years, and no amount of hand wringing or name calling is going to change it or their opinions, so you might as well get used to it. SCOTUS should have never been put in this position in the first place.
But other than your characterizations, I agree completely with what you're saying. With the exception of gun control, an issue that seems to have waned, it's the Dem's one chance to reverse what had been looking like a wipe out for some time. And I also agree with you about the basis of the objections to the overturning of Roe v Wade. The vast majority of women will never be in a position to have an abortion, nor will any of their family members. It's all about the government telling its citizens what to do, just like the anti vaxxers chant. My body, my choice.
One of the reasons I would never run for government is my honest view of humanity is they're dumb as hell. An incredibly stupid species carried forward by a handful of highly intelligent, productive humans who take care of the human herd providing them with better lives and more choices due to the natural predilection of a species to care for other members of the same species. If that trait did not exist, not sure how long the majority of humans would have survived as dumb as the majority of humans are. One saving grace is humans as a group are smarter than the animals they compete against for dominance of resources. But the things humans believe with clear evidence to the contrary is mind boggling to me.
When younger I used to believe intelligence was egalitarian and merely a matter of development. But as I've gotten older I've changed that belief. I see intelligence is often individual and as different as height or strength or any other trait. A high level of human intelligence is a valuable trait, fortunately not always mixed with other valuable human traits like charisma or leadership ability, creating a co-dependency which allows human leadership to use these various traits for the overall advancement of the human race as a whole as long as they can control the general chaos of the human herd.
If I had my way, I would exert extreme control over humanity. I have so little tolerance for their cries of freedom while they use it for such ignorant beliefs that I can barely stomach listening to them. I have little problem with a benevolent dictator ruling with the idea, "You will do what I tell you to do because I know what is best." But unfortunately such capable benevolent dictators are rare, so our next best option is this illusory freedom that mostly leaves you alone as long as you don't interfere with the plans of the powerful and they don't lose their mind to such an extreme they destroy the world. Sometimes I cannot help but sit here and contemplate that at the moment, the world is run by a handful of humans with the capacity to destroy all the other humans if they so desired. They control weaponry and technology capable of wiping out human populations in an almost god-like manner and the only thing holding them back is opposing humans who can do the same and a naturally occurring trait innate to most living species that you do not kill your own kind unless you have no choice.
The cold intellectual part of me understands abortion is reproductive management. I see why science developed the procedure. The majority of humans produce what I call human puppies. Purposeless, mostly useless additional humans that will not accomplish much but adding to the herd an additional unnecessary mouth to feed while spending the majority of their time in unproductive behavior centered on survival and play because that is the biological programming of a human being. Only a handful of humans will ever advance us to another level of technological advancement that we can actually do something interesting like travel the universe. Thus abortion supports the overall goal of efficient reproductive management often used by those who have insufficient resources to successfully reproduce a human with a higher chance of highly productive behavior that might lead to an advancement. I understand the usefulness of the procedure.
Abortion doesn't motivate my vote any longer. I could care less what the majority of these women do. Most women wiling to undergo abortion for reasons other than medical necessity probably wouldn't make good mothers anyway and it's probably wise they eliminate a responsibility they do not want or have the means to raise well.
That's one of the main reasons I see this issue helping the Democrats. Most non-religious or semi-religious Republicans and voters just don't care enough about this issue to go to the polls for it. Whereas liberal women that do will be driven to the polls by their perceived freedom being taken away.
I can't even imagine
Riverdog cares that much about abortion. I know my participation in the discussion is mostly for my own amusement. Abortion isn't a very motivating issue for me. I'm fine leaving it up to individual women. I'm more concerned about taxes, inflation, and the economy than abortion.