2-for-1! thank you.Robert wrote:I would say this was a leading issue for the religious right to support Trump since he clearly stated he would appoint pro life judges.temporal1 wrote:the entire DNC was sold out on corporate abortion, top-down, they left no flexibility. at all.
they lost many votes there.
I also think that many of the religious right that sat out last election with Romney felt driven not to do that again. I see it as a reaction to their failure to support Romney and the affects of that the past 4 years.
just prior to the election, i knew of 2 cases where young mothers secretly killed their newborn infants, with community and courts judging harshly (one was on the college campus near me.)
i couldn't help but be sickened by these judgments, when, had these young women "simply" turned the killing over to corporations, very few, or none, would have known, those who did, would accept without question. this points to the importance of "corporate profit" in the matter.
as well, commitment to full-term abortions, which is now leading to some sanctioned post-birth murders, AND, the party refusal to respect human rights of unborn human beings, altogether painted a grisly "party platform."
about Romney. interesting.
i believe, the failure to elect Romney in 2012 impacted the 2014 Mid Term elections.
however, in the process of the 2016 campaign, strange things happened.
one big thing (for many) was witnessing how Romney, but not just Romney, how these became recognized to be "establishment" politicians, i.e., as SOME had been saying for years, they were 1 party (for themselves) not 2 parties (willing to represent the people.)
what had been seen as conjecture, was revealed to be fact, by their own public statements - no longer speculation.
the blatant DNC-RNC establishment "entitlement" attitude reflected did not go down well.
2016 was, also, a political point of change in Mexico, nearly ignored in "news," and, in England, with Brexit. i really have no idea how choices in Mexico, England, and Canada, may have affected U.S. voters. probably many voters know nothing of these countries, i know very little! and, i look for it!
(all from what i observed. so, fwiw.
on MD, i see most differences stemming from what-is-observed, more-than core divisions in personal understanding.)