Have democrats largely given up on protecting a woman's right to choose?

[Zorra]

138. See, we differ here. Years ago, when I was still a bit naive about conservatives,

I thought it would be possible to make conservatives change their beliefs by presenting well reasoned, logical arguments, accompanied by indisputable factual sources.

It simply has never worked. It is a useless, unproductive endeavor. You cannot convince irrational, superstitious people of anything by using reason, logic, and fact. A person must be capable of using reason and logic in order to perceive that something is indeed a rational, valid point.

Conservatives, in general, believe what they want to believe, logic, reason, and fact be damned.

If I say to conservatives that women have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies, they still believe that they have the right to force women to do what they want them to with their bodies, because they believe that it is their god's will that they should have legal dominion over what women choose to do with their bodies.

You cannot have rational debate with tragically superstitious individuals. It's very similar to debating with severely psychotic individuals.

Our real hope for justice and equality lies not in convincing conservatives that they don't have the god given right to control women's bodies, but in a future liberal, rational, egalitarian, and just Supreme Court majority that understands the absolute necessity of complete and unequivocal separation of church and state in all matters of law.

Researchers help define what makes a political conservative

BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations?

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management

"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.