[bsder]

Popular and right are orthogonal values.

In addition, just like Brexit, I see a lot of people who appear to have completely ignored the concrete results of their actions.

For example, me to Trump voter: "You do realize that you voted to throw your own daughter and my mother off of healthcare? Your daughter couldn't get coverage before Obamacare because she has mild sleep apnea while being middle-aged. My mother couldn't get healthcare before the ACA because she is a breast cancer survivor." Trump voter: "Well, I didn't really want that."

What am I supposed to say at that point?

Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than your own daughter receiving healthcare?

Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than my mother receiving healthcare?

Really, I want to know this.

And, when you give me your answer about god, guns, gays, mexicans, emails, Benghazi or any other stupid thing that doesn't impact our lives one iota other than to serve as a propaganda vehicle, don't be surprised when I tell you how FUCKING WRONG you are.

Thanks.

[trdrake]

There was a category of people [not me, fwiw] for which abortion was the singular issue that made them vote for what they considered a deeply flawed candidate. Everything else paled in comparison.

[jpgvm]

Abortion also doesn't affect anyone other than the woman that chooses to exercise the right. Thus also a pretty shit reason to vote for someone.

[filoeleven]

From the pro-life point of view, it also affects the unborn child who is murdered. For many of them, abortion is literally the same thing as letting people kill their toddlers because they decided that they don't want them for whatever reason. This is the divide.

(I realize that there are other pregnancy complications that don't literally equate to having an inconvenient toddler, and pro-lifers aren't as consistent on how they view those cases, but those are a small minority of abortions.)