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Kansas Republicans’ abortion restriction proposal is in direct defiance of a vote last year by Kansans to protect abortion rights, and further proof of conservatives’ own ideological flexibility when it comes to local governance.
They lie.  This was always the plan.  Its how scams work.  They lie and move the post a little.  Then they move it again and again.
The goal is known and I don't understand how people fall for their lies. >

"It's OK because we're lying for Jesus!" >

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Susan B. Anthony >

....I've been saying so something similar to this forever, so it's nice I can quote someone more authoritative than "-me" >

Florida does this all the time. The people overwhelmingly vote for something and then the Florida legislature immediately does everything it can to make the vote invalid.
Because Republicans don't care about people. They only care about themselves >

And then Florida votes for Republicans to do it again. Seems like they enjoy the abuse. >

I feel like conservatives LOVE being gaslit masochists. >


For years, the clarion cry of the anti-abortion movement was to let states decide their own abortion laws. Among conservatives, it was to reclaim power more generally from Washington and defer to local values. In practice, however, those supposed values are subordinated to an overwhelming drive to win the culture wars at any costs, whether through legislative trickery or local preemption. There is only one constant in where Republicans say they want governance decisions to be made: wherever they can win them.

I don't know why anyone would take Republican politicians at their word, at this point.
They lie and slander and practise hypocrisy; no baseness is off limits, in pursuit of owning the libs. Then their hate for the left is intensified when the left doesnt behave in the same immoral, valueless way, that Republicans think everyone behaves in.
Republicans cannot stand to be looked down upon by the left, regardless of whether their actions merit it. This is refraimed as "elites sneering", and is regurgitated as another reason to hate the left. >

Some Congressional Republicans started talking national ban even before Dobbs was official.  Even for the unobservant, it should have been obvious that talk about sending it to the states was not serious.