It’s a question of which side will see more voters activated by the issue, and go on to vote: remember that winning is largely about generating the momentum for people who already support you to vote at all, not just swaying hearts and minds to vote for you. It’s barely that latter at all.
So they calculate they can get more church ladies and reactionary males to get fired up about protecting babies and punishing jezebels than the democrats can get people fired up about protecting women’s healthcare. Given how shafted women are across the board, betting on hate may be a winning move.
overzeetop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Republicans (conservatives, generally) have limited empathy. Relatively few people will every have the need to seek an abortion as a percentage of the population - only half are even eligible. The lack of empathy means they do not consider that it is a problem for them until it actually happens to them. For the base it’s a litmus test which allows the candidate to do or say almost anything and still guarantee a vote; for the rest who have never had to seek or don’t expect to need to seek an abortion, it’s a non-issue and they can cite more (American) moderate right policies like lower taxes and less regulation as their driving force.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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