The GOP and their base are increasingly out of touch with the American people. Yet they keep trying to impose their outdated religious and moral views on the rest of us. That is not what the separation of church and state was supposed to be about! They are so paternalistic and morally constipated, that they can't stand others making personal decisions that conflict with their own. No body else is hurt when a woman decides to get an abortion, yet they can't stand the thought of it and it bothers them so much, they don't want anyone to get one. But what about us imposing our woke views on their racist and discriminatory ways, they retort. Other people do get actually hurt economically, socially and emotionally from their racism and discrimination. Just because it makes them uncomfortable to think about someone getting an abortion, or being gay or trans because of their personal religious and moral beliefs is not sufficient reason to impose those beliefs on others. Seems like a no-brainer yet they can't let go of the authoritarian, paternalistic impulse to impose what they think is right on everybody else because it makes them feel badly. Get over it and act like an adult instead of a child trying to obey their (heavenly) father.

Article: Sixty-four percent say abortion should be legal in all or most cases: poll

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"Almost two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a new poll taken about eight months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The survey, released Thursday from the nonpartisan research organization Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), found that 64 percent of respondents believed abortion should be legal in at least most cases, while only 34 percent said it should be illegal in most or all cases.

The number of respondents who mostly support allowing the procedure has continually increased in the poll since 2010, when 55 percent of respondents said they supported it. The amount opposed to it has declined from 42 percent since then."

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Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-isnt-our-biggest-problem-its?publication_id=302288&post_id=73893520&isFreemail=true

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"The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it...

Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating stragegies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.
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Meanwhile, a new poll shows 61 percent of Republicans have abandoned Trump, but not because they object to his brutality or lawlessness; they’re just largely concerned that he can’t win elections in the future in part because he may end up in prison.

This increasingly includes the 128 members of Congress, 10 of them US Senators, who voted to end American democracy on January 7th, 2021.

So, they’re jumping on the DeSantis train, a man largely indistinguishable from Trump when it comes to supporting cruel, racist, white male supremacist policies.

This is happening because Trump launched a modern-day authoritarian fascist movement, with the help and encouragement of Putin and a handful of American and foreign billionaires.

And the authoritarian-follower Americans who first embraced Trump are now looking for the next leader of that movement.

The big mistake so many political observers make is assuming that Trumpism is all about Trump. It’s not.

It’s all about a 21st century American version of authoritarian fascism.
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Arnold Toynbee, it is said, argued that every 80 years or so America repeats its greatest political mistakes, and must learn that lesson through mass death because 80 years is the rough span of human life.

“When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies,” he’s often quoted as saying, “the next great war becomes inevitable.”

Similarly, when the last Americans who fought fascism die out, the next authoritarian fascist movement is certain to emerge, leading us back to the struggle to maintain democracy.
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Politicians and newspapers who’d spotted the rise of authoritarian fascism in the old South and in the 1930s America First movement tried to warn the country about the dangers of rising fascism here and abroad.

In both cases they failed and war broke out.

And now, roughly 80 years after World War II, here we are again.

The question this time is whether, in an era of mass media and the internet, that infrastructure will be used to strengthen and spread today’s new fascism, or will succeed in awakening and alerting the American people.

It isn’t about Republican versus Democrat; it’s about authoritarian fascism versus democracy in our republic.
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If authoritarian fascism isn’t defeated now it will certainly tear our nation apart, will accelerate the growth of fascism around the world, and end the American experiment with representative republican democracy.

Its support and funding from within the senior levels of American industry (particularly fossil fuels and finance) also means its successes damage humanity’s ability to deal with serious crises like climate change, disease, and poverty.
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This is a critical moment for American media to stop handling this movement with kid gloves and start calling it what it is: fascism. And to begin demanding accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it."