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79. Money

while there are many people who simply think abortion is wrong, most often a fundamental religious viewpoint continually reinforced by church leaders, after Roe v Wade the right wing politicians quickly exploited it into a fund-raising goldmine. There are probably few issues in U.S history that have proven to be as consistent a source of campaign contributions to a political party.

In the past decade or so, the same right wing has exploited the gay rights issue both monetarily and electorally. But that issue is beginning to wane somewhat in its ability to be a reliable wedge issue as progress and general acceptance of the rights of LGBT marches on. Oh, that issue is still there on a list of what the RW considers "moral imperatives," soon to be joined by the outrage from the right over women in combat. But IMO anti-abortion money remains the consistent cash cow for right wing politicians.

Probably the only other group of primary (or single) issue voters that the right can count on to be as reliable in their ongoing financial support are the NRA-led gun rights folks that believe that any attempt to put any limits on guns or ammunition is the first step toward the government confiscating all of their weapons.

It's a coalition of hot button issues that the right has been, and will continue, to exploit because they raise so much money. And the PTB, that is the big money bankster, Wall Street, corporatists that basically don't really give a shit about these hot button issues, are just fine with the arrangement. They get all this great GOP funding from these folks and this group of issues distract the zealots from seeing how the big money is fleecing them on everything else!