The demographic effects of abortion-on-demand won't be completely known for fifty years - though they seem obvious and can thus be predicted. The pro-life segment of the GOP doesn't think or care about that, though. They don't think at all. They are right of course in that the instinct *toward life* is the correct one; but that instinct …
The demographic effects of abortion-on-demand won't be completely known for fifty years - though they seem obvious and can thus be predicted. The pro-life segment of the GOP doesn't think or care about that, though. They don't think at all. They are right of course in that the instinct *toward life* is the correct one; but that instinct is in no way honored by the GOP (or, for that matter, the left) when it comes to Life writ large, to nature - and thus only weakly stands upon every day more irrelevant religious considerations, and is at odds with the last virtue accepted by left and right (even if it manifests differently), the primacy of the individual.
The problem with the GOP is that even when they're right, they're always in some sense wrong, or wrongheaded. As a conservative, this "Inside Baseball" stuff couldn't matter to me less. The GOP could cease to exist and while that would be perfectly welcome news to Democrats, and thus for a time grating - it would not represent much change to the country, and there's a minute chance it could even be to the good, as perhaps it would force the right* into a re-appraisal of values away from the dumb and dumbening political arena.
*Apologies for revealing my right-leaning politics here, on Josh's blog, but I feel like this is an adult-enough space where I need not pretend; merely trying to express the sentiment of my tribe, which non-threateningly consists of no more than four or five people, all of whom are known to me ;-).
The demographic effects of abortion-on-demand won't be completely known for fifty years - though they seem obvious and can thus be predicted. The pro-life segment of the GOP doesn't think or care about that, though. They don't think at all. They are right of course in that the instinct *toward life* is the correct one; but that instinct is in no way honored by the GOP (or, for that matter, the left) when it comes to Life writ large, to nature - and thus only weakly stands upon every day more irrelevant religious considerations, and is at odds with the last virtue accepted by left and right (even if it manifests differently), the primacy of the individual.
The problem with the GOP is that even when they're right, they're always in some sense wrong, or wrongheaded. As a conservative, this "Inside Baseball" stuff couldn't matter to me less. The GOP could cease to exist and while that would be perfectly welcome news to Democrats, and thus for a time grating - it would not represent much change to the country, and there's a minute chance it could even be to the good, as perhaps it would force the right* into a re-appraisal of values away from the dumb and dumbening political arena.
*Apologies for revealing my right-leaning politics here, on Josh's blog, but I feel like this is an adult-enough space where I need not pretend; merely trying to express the sentiment of my tribe, which non-threateningly consists of no more than four or five people, all of whom are known to me ;-).