Strong religious conservatives are a key part of the Republican base hence why certain states like Texas and Oklahoma ended up passing some restrictive abortion laws since they were afraid of being primaried out.
Since this is a midterm year with a despised Dem in the WH and with gun grabber Beto running, I am not worried about my state Texas staying red.
You are right that full bans/extremely restrictive abortions laws and no abortion restrictions at all are both very unpopular.
I personally believe abortion is murder so I support the full bans.
I however understand that my personal abortion stance is sadly electoral suicide.
Andrew Breitbart did say that politics is downstream of culture.
It has been hard for the right to win the culture war ever since the left took control of all the major institutions.
Good news is that as the major institutions continue to destroy their credibility and hopefully completely implode, any parallel institutions newly built by the right can help turn the tide.
Also the fact that there is no competing ideology.
I mean, there is, but true, hard-line nationalist conservatism is so far outside the Overton Window that if any of us speak out in any true public forum, people start gasping, fainting, and going rabidly bonkers.
Also the fact that there is no competing ideology. Conservatism is just progressivism 20 years ago.
In theory, it is a competing belief system, namely "stick with what works" and the wisdom of the ages. Unfortunately, the right has a tendency to accept the status quo even if it does not work.
If you want a vacuous ideology, it's progressivism. They're the mirror image of conservatism: where conservatives want things to stay the same, they want "change" - even change for the worse. The only thing that has been constant since the beginning of progressivism is that it accepts ideas that have novelty. That's it.
Strong religious conservatives are a key part of the Republican base hence why certain states like Texas and Oklahoma ended up passing some restrictive abortion laws since they were afraid of being primaried out.
Since this is a midterm year with a despised Dem in the WH and with gun grabber Beto running, I am not worried about my state Texas staying red.
You are right that full bans/extremely restrictive abortions laws and no abortion restrictions at all are both very unpopular.
I personally believe abortion is murder so I support the full bans.
I however understand that my personal abortion stance is sadly electoral suicide.
Truth is: you always have to win the culture war first, not elections.
Andrew Breitbart did say that politics is downstream of culture.
It has been hard for the right to win the culture war ever since the left took control of all the major institutions.
Good news is that as the major institutions continue to destroy their credibility and hopefully completely implode, any parallel institutions newly built by the right can help turn the tide.
Also the fact that there is no competing ideology. Conservatism is just progressivism 20 years ago.
Back when progressivism moved over the course of hundreds of years it wasn't noticeable.
I mean, there is, but true, hard-line nationalist conservatism is so far outside the Overton Window that if any of us speak out in any true public forum, people start gasping, fainting, and going rabidly bonkers.
In theory, it is a competing belief system, namely "stick with what works" and the wisdom of the ages. Unfortunately, the right has a tendency to accept the status quo even if it does not work.
If you want a vacuous ideology, it's progressivism. They're the mirror image of conservatism: where conservatives want things to stay the same, they want "change" - even change for the worse. The only thing that has been constant since the beginning of progressivism is that it accepts ideas that have novelty. That's it.