Not necessarily - depending on the country. It was meaningful that was done (long before Trump) with Jordan and Egypt, direct neighbors with a history of war and not acknowledging Israel's right to exist.
yet the religious right themselves are the ones who have gone through such great lengths to frame abortion not as a complex matter of public policy worthy of nuanced compromise; but as a black-and-white moral mandate that cannot be compromised at all.
I think it is plain now that principles-based movements (like “right to life”, etc.) have been coopted. They are all now put to use to further policies and actions that are wholly in conflict with the purported mission.ousdahl wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:52 pmyet the religious right themselves are the ones who have gone through such great lengths to frame abortion not as a complex matter of public policy worthy of nuanced compromise; but as a black-and-white moral mandate that cannot be compromised at all.
Would they still?
Could they still?
btw sweet avatar bro.
Because they don't really care. Not on a broad scale.
The GOP has done a great job at making the R after a candidate's name the same as KC in front of a sports team. I root for KC teams exclusively because I happened to be born at KU Med. They made politics as much of a sport as anything else, and Karl Rove just happens to be like Belichick, skirting the lines as much possible in order to keep winning. I think family and faith are less at play then people think, just because many actually religious folks I know find Trump and his ilk abhorrent, while church on two Sundays a month crowd are rooting hard for GOP, and don't care about actual positions.jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:49 amBecause they don't really care. Not on a broad scale.
The Republican party has done a great job using empty platitudes about family and faith and character and all lives matter and such and such as fig leaves to give people wholly-superficial ways to forgive themselves for supporting policies and people that do not at all line up with those principles.
