Reply #180: I think the real problem... [View All]

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...at least the one I have that makes me so ambiguous on what she says, is that we have been saying, "I'm okay, you're okay," all along on a variety of subjects. But the other side returns with, "I'm okay, you hate America and OMG WTF LIBERALS WILL KILL YOUR BABIES AND BURN YOUR HOUSES DOWN AND BRING BACK SATAN!!!1!1!"

On the one hand, I think Hilary did a very clever job in turning the issue away from overturning Roe into pushing for social programs and birth control. She seems to be trying to offer a solution that says, "here is a way to do what you say you want--stop abortions--so if you don't take it, then people are going to start thinking that you don't really want to stop abortions."

It sounds to me on the one hand like she's pandering--not bluntly calling a wingnut a wingnut, which needs to happen in some public forum or another--*somebody* needs to draw a line and say, "look, these foamers are looney-tunes, and what they advocate just plain ain't gonna work in the really real world." But on the other hand, she's rather deftly putting the onus of responsibility on the other side, by offering a solution that works towards their stated goals, and that we can live with as well, but if they don't take will reveal their stated goals to be *not* what they claimed.

But I don't know if subtlety will be effective against the "OMG WTF!!!1!111" screeching of the rightwingnuts.