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In reply to the discussion: Plain talk about "the abortion issue": it is not now nor has it ever been about "saving babies". [View all]Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Yes, they are playing to the put women in their place crowd. But the real reason for this insanity is the GOP power elite are facing a massive demographic shift that is not going to be in their favor.
And so they are playing the long game in order to maintain control of the senate, and have some continued power over the electoral college outcomes.
The long game is to pass the craziest inhumane laws in red states in order to:
1) Drive blue voters out of those states.
2) Attract and maintain red voters in those crazy states.
The margins have been generally narrowing for some time, and this is a pushback against that inevitable blue shift coming in the demographics.
This is a long game because it will not work instantly, but over time it will affect where people decide to live. They know very well how the long game works because they've applied it very successfully over the past 4 decades to control state legislatures so they can gerrymander like crazy in order to maintain control of the US house of reps.
They *do not care* about human life, because if they did we would not have the health care and economic systems that cause untold suffering and death here in the USA just so the GOP elite can make a profit.