The Christo-Fascists didn't start winning overnight. It took decades of concerted effort on their part and decades of neglect from their so-called opposition.
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@gwynnion Indeed. Right-wingers have been working hard since the early 1960s to bring this about. It's no accident. It's not something that simply "happened". The civil rights movement is what set it off.
Evangelicals have been played. Turning abortion into a key issue was a conscious strategic decision made in the 1970s to distract public focus from the real goal, which is segregation. "We need an issue to keep the rubes engaged. Aha! Abortion." The Evangelicals were played like a violin and they're still oblivious to it.
