Too
often, I see a problem in the minds of various voters. They are blinded by only
one issue and refuse to even consider any others. That issue is abortion.
Because they feel so strongly about this issue over all others, they refuse to
even consider all the other important issue that are also part of elections and
how candidates would work if elected.
Let’s
say that a Christian candidate is pro-choice. Most would argue that this
doesn’t make any sense. They’d be correct in thinking that. But what also
doesn’t make sense to me is that there will be people thinking that the
pro-life candidate is somehow the most Christian candidate based on that issue
alone and no others. They aren’t even considering the actual religious beliefs
of a certain candidate. There is no way that Trump is more Christian than
Hillary Clinton based on just the abortion issue alone. Trump’s not a
Christian. Will people vote for an Atheist who is pro-life because they
consider them more Christian than actual Christians who are pro-choice? Does
that make any sense either?
One
should never vote based on just one issue while ignoring all other important
ones. There are plenty more important things worthy of considering whether or
not you should vote for someone other than just the abortion issue. I would
never vote for or against someone based on just one issue. Now this goes for
issues outside of abortion. One should never vote just based on what they want
to happen with the Supreme Court in the future. If one makes any race for any
office into a one issue race, you are blatantly ignoring any and every other
important issue in that or any other race.
In
my mind, there might be multiple things that could be considered deal breakers
in terms of if I wouldn’t vote for a person. Too often, there are too many of
these and they often apply to both of the candidates in question. But we need
to get to the important things in question. What is one candidate is a liar and
the other isn’t? Why vote for the liar? Are they at least honest about being
pro-life? I can’t remember offhand what other deal breakers I might have.
Now
I hope that people don’t get confused about my actual beliefs about abortion. I
think that it is terrible and shouldn’t happen except in cases of rape. But I
wouldn’t stoop so low to call every pro-choice person a baby killer. That’s far
too extreme. You aren’t a baby killer unless you are the one getting the
abortion or performing it. And you might be required by law to do an abortion
regardless of if you want to do it or not. But merely being pro-choice doesn’t
make you a killer more than being pro-gun makes you a mass shooter.
There
are some aspects of the abortion debate that don’t make as much sense to me.
What I do know is that it makes no sense in my mind to be against abortion and
not in favor of birth control or other simple ways of preventing unwanted pregnancy.
One shouldn’t be too brainwashed by the idea that abortion is wrong into
thinking that rape from pregnancy is a myth. I might have to save points like
this for another blog post.
That’s
all that I can think of for this blog post. I should be potentially switching
between this blog and my TV blog on Tuesdays, although that can change
regarding what Survivor episodes that I might roll like I did today. I should
hopefully keep you updated as to when this blog will itself be updated. Mondays
might be gone most of the time and it will be on at least every other Tuesday
that I can think of for the near future until it has the potential to do every
Tuesday.
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