Terrorism is the new abortion

WARNING. Naughty language, offensive & awkward metaphors, ridiculously partisan ideas and conspiracy theories ahead.

For over thirty years, the Republican party as sucked the abortion tit like a starving child that hasn't had a boob in its mouth in days. Over and over again, they have railed and ranted and raved about the evils of Baby Killing and the idea that women somehow have a right to privacy about their bodies. Of course, this was all meaningless: abortion was just another "cultural" issue to get Ignorant People to the polls, so the Republicans could do the things they actually cared about: shift the tax burden to the poor, make big business less accountable for its actions, destroy the environment (in order to hasten the Second Coming of Christ), and the ultimate goal: tear down the New Deal and Great Society legacies of FDR and LBJ. Abortion, like gay marriage and "small government" were issues that they only feigned solutions for whenever the base got agitated, proposing legislation that wouldn't possibly be passed. However, the days of the republican party suckling on this teat are coming to an end. The unexpected happened: the Ignorant People actually have power now, and are they now have a chance to actually abolish abortion!

Now, as a Practicing Roman Catholic, I too am disturbed by abortion. However, I don't think a workable solution is possible, seeing as that the situations and circumstances of every woman's pregnancy are varied. The idea of a 30something woman aborting her child as vanity is disgusting to me; the idea of a thirteen year old girl who probably can't survive childbirth aborting hers because her father raped her is understandable. However, we rarely make distinctions with other kinds of private acts: a person has as much a right to sit on a street corner, burn the American flag and scream as how aliens from venus are going to attack as much as a person whom wants to discuss the superiority of government spending in a bad economy with a friend at Starbucks. The point is, we shouldn't ban it all just because some circumstances are despicable.

With the probable resignation of two or more Supreme Court justices before the end of Bush's term, abortion, for better or worse, is probably going to come to an end. Thus, what do the Republicans have now in order to work up the base?

TERRAISM!

Yes, terrorism. It's a fact that the US and UK governments just made shit up in order to start the war in Iraq. Why? Well, there is always the idea that Bush is just Batshit Crazy, but I refuse to believe that. He's stupid, but he's stupid like a fox. The base needs to be riled up. And what better way to do that then with Fear?

You think I'm crazy? What was once a repressive, secular dictatorship is now a extremist training ground! I mean, these people don't expect us to leave anytime soon, so I think it's safe to say that saying that the idea that the insurgency is in its "last throes" (previous link) is utter bullshit. Hmm, an endless war against a scary enemy? All the potency of abortion, less death, AND the rich contractors get fucking richer! Hey guys, it's win-win-win situation! Why put the fear of God into people when you can just make them fear?