(05-09-2022, 05:18 AM)EricC85 Wrote: Jj some issues reach beyond in political ideology. Yes there is rampant abuse of social welfare programs but that doesn't change the reality that without them many of these kids are going to suffer horribly. If we are truly going to call ourselves pro life then let's do it. It's not about scoring a political win or strategically beating the democrats for me. It's strictly a question of what now, for my entire adult life the fight has been to end the genocide. While overturning Roe doesn't end abortions outright it brings into reality the opportunity for many states to end it. In those states which will have my full support we absolutely can not drop the ball and abandon these kids at birth or there mother's. Further more the argument that better access to birth control would mitigate the need for abortions from unwanted pregnancy is a solid argument. I can not come up with a reason that argument is wrong. My only goal is to end the genocide, my only goal is to protect the children, I don't care about anything else. If that means this is the only political victory we get so be it, end the genocide at all cost.

Not really. Political ideology is driving everything in this country. See, the thing is, I have become much more liberal as I have gotten older and have learned more about history and progressive philosophy. So much so, that I don't know that I would consider myself a conservative if I held these views 20 years ago. However, JJ is 100% correct. When you look at the way these policies have been implemented by the left, they don't do anything but lead to disfunction within the American system. 

They are intentionally designed to destroy the American family and replace it with hook up culture. They want to federalize all educational institutions, so they can shape the minds of the next generations. They want to create federal police forces that operate at the behest of the government. The attack and destroy religious morals and replace them with secular morals, not to create more freedom for the individual, but to give more power to the state. Their ultimate goal is to replace individualism with collectivism. 

Let's just take your concern about welfare: If you really wanted to help people, would you create a system that encouraged separation of the family and kept people from being able to make more money by working? That's exactly what our welfare system does. There are more benefits given to single mothers than ones with husbands. A person has to make over 60k a year or risk losing their welfare benefits. It completely entrenches the lower class in a state of dependance, creates a hypersexualized culture, and then offers and encourages abortions as a form of population control. Ultimately, this limits the growth and success of people who become ensnared in this system, which disproportionately affects blacks. This isn't an accident. It's in the literature. There is a reason the black population has not grown as a percentage of the population in the last 20 years. 

That said, I would be open to looking into creating systems that help people, but this can only be achieved if we destroy this progressive cancer that is plaguing our country. Then we have to destroy the abuse and corruption by the corporate-government elite. Then and only then can we solve these problems.

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