{"id":82783,"date":"2022-07-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82783"},"modified":"2022-07-12T06:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:27:21","slug":"immoderate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82783","title":{"rendered":"Immoderate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks back, when the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, I knew the same thing everyone in the country who passed ninth grade civics, even if taught by a moonlighting football coach, knew;  The decision didn\u2019t \u201cban abortion\u201c; it merely forces abortion proponents to do what gun rights supporters have had to do for the past 55 years; convince voters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They, like us Second Amendment people, would have to go through the long, arduous, and provided ones cause is right, ultimately rewarding process of convincing people one voter, one legislator, one bill or issue at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, I told people; \u201cYou keep throwing around polls saying 90% of the American people support abortion on demand. It should be a cakewalk\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it might also mean having to make occasional compromises to convince those people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this is the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Harvard\/Harris poll: Huge super-majority of Americans favor 15-week abortion bans in states.  Women more likely than men to favor such restrictions; men more likely to support no limitations. Just 10% of respondents agree with federal Dems&#39; 9-month-abortion radicalism: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wyOzUPg9uE\">pic.twitter.com\/wyOzUPg9uE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1546176817689776129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this poll is accurate, the choice mob is going to have to make some concessions to get to that massive support they claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as we saw in 1993\/1994 and in 2009\/2010, if there\u2019s one thing abortion supporters hate, it\u2019s any compromise at all, and even the flimsiest margin of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are really two sides to the coin I\u2019m looking at, hair: on the one hand, there\u2019s nothing quite as pathetic as a group of people realizing that the information they\u2019ve been given is deeply faulty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side of the coin, there\u2019s nothing quite as dangerous as a bunch of people who have spent 50 years believing they\u2019ve been entitled to get their way on every particular of an issue, not getting their way on any particular of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I knew the same thing everyone in the country who passed ninth grade civics, even if taught by a moonlighting football coach, knew; The decision didn\u2019t \u201cban abortion\u201c; it merely forces abortion proponents to do what gun rights supporters have had to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82787,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82783\/revisions\/82787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}