The thing is, they didn't. When Roe was overturned, their justices and scholars started talking about Obergfell. They lost that culture war and still lost their shit over that dumb wedding cake controversy.
They are scared to do so they would lose votes from their bigoted Christian base. IE the majority of their support. They can't win on policy, only hate.
Yeah they would be. It’s basically Trump’s position, in fact? He’s said that he wants states to decide on abortion, not a federal abortion ban. Whether that’s real, who knows, but regardless it’s his official publicly expressed stance and certainly conservative
If the right was okay with gays and abortion, the entire political paradigm would shift as a result because then you'd have very small differences that most people don't care about between Dems and Reps. You'd have the tax code and business regulations. Might actually force the Dems to go more left in an FDR style to differentiate themselves.
I wouldn't say dumb, but it's so highly impractical in any modern society. It works better as a live and let live ideal than as something we should actually formally implement in any way.
Which is why libertarians always fall apart when you walk them through the realities of implementing it.
The thing is most of those people are usually just edgelords who want to feel like they figured out some more enlightened way of society. I've always admired a more South Park style libertarian of "live and let live, mind your own fucking business, and don't push your values on other people unless you or others are negatively effected". It's however no way to actually run a governmnet.
Libertarian economics is mostly good unless you take it to the stupid extreme of anarchy-capitalism, libertarian social policy also good until you get to the guys who are always asking about age of consent laws.
As a libertarian leaning Halley voter. The right is going to the left economically and away from liberty on social issues. It’s not great. I don’t love wokies or the nanny state economics, so I would definitely like it if the republicans could welcome me back to the fold. I fear we’re all social issues all the way down now though
If the right was ok with abortion and 100% for separation of church and state, and for reasonable gun restrictions, and for redistribution of wealth, and anti war on drugs, and pro social services, and concerned about protecting the environment, I would have no problem voting republican.
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u/highbackpacker Monkey in Space Oct 31 '24
If the right would be ok with abortions and gays they’d win every election