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I regularly see people who tie these issues together.
I am just clueless.
1) Anti-abortion SHOULD be 'pro-life'. But guns are anything but.
2) More guns = more gun violence and more deaths. The science of association is really clear. So more guns is not 'pro life'. See (1) above.
3) Climate change denialists. I have no clue how this issue is tied in any way to points (1) and (2).
The only thing I can think of is that each is tied to some sort of societal change. But even that is not a full explanation. Anti-science? Not sure there is any real scientific debate over the science excess trying to define when human life starts? That isn't a scientific issue as biology is a circle.
I do not see the theme or have a clue how these are wrapped together. As someone who thinks of each separately, even the connection seems odd to me.
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Those are simply Republican political strategies. Nothing more. Each has been calculated to draw support to Republicans, whom as we know, are much better at staying on message than Democrats.
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those are things that liberals feel strongly about - therefore, if you're gonna be a bona fide repub, you must be against these things. That is the only necessary tie. It's all bout owning the libs.
Also 'tied' to those things are things like eating kale, approving of wilderness protection and sympathy for trans people.
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More likely "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thinking.
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Not sure of causal relationships but I think that white males are disproportionately represented in each of those groups.
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The conservative movement is at its root about money. Assuring that those who have it get to keep as much of it as possible. Along the way, they have collected a variety of other issues that get the votes. But since they really don't care about those other issues, those issues don't have to be logically consistent with one another.
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using fear and distrust to gain votes
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Each position requires a great deal of deliberate ignorance and hypocricy, making one vulnerable to fear-based and "strong-man" sales-tactics.
...The market for gold coins is propped up almost entirely in this fashion.
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I am very much in the pro-choice camp. Personal choice and personal freedoms. pro abortion does not have to mean anti gun.
But there sure is a certain hypocrisy in those same people screaming about 20,000 killed by firearms seem to be silent about the 25-75 times more lives ended by abortions. :dunno: The mom is excersizing her choice sure, but what about the unborn kids who have no say?
25-75 times more depends on which recent year you look at. But the enormous difference in either ratio illustrates the point.
I've had a family member who was raped. I understand the issues from a pretty close perspective. In the past I drove a few friends to abortion clinics because they had no one else to turn to for help who wouldn't judge them.
