re: Lets Talk Politics

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You primary concern with open borders is abortion and not the fact that those people are parasites who are coming here to live off of our entitlement system and swell the welfare rolls while going on criminal rampages!? That's the problem with the Republican party. Instead of focusing on issues that people actually care about it is constantly taking its eye off the ball to obsess over religious issues like abortion, which isn't driving anyone to the polls but the evangelical wing, which hijacked the party and continuously drives it into a ditch.

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Abortion isn't a religious issue, and I'm not an evangelical. Abortion is a civil rights issue. And if this weren't an issue that "people actually care about", then how could the "evangelical wing" have "hijacked the party"?

The answer is clearly many people DO care about it, and your denial of that fact doesn't make it any less true. You can stomp your feet like a child and rail against those unreasonable evangelicals/pro-lifers and their insistence on pursuing policy priorities that don't match your own, but they/we are a large, crucial part of the conservative coalition. You aren't winning anything without it.