(08-01-2022 10:41 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I don't understand why, but the only two issues republicans seem to be passionate about are abortion and gay rights. They've taken pretty extreme positions on both (as, quite frankly, have democrats in the opposite direction on both), and both seem to be the only two hills they are willing to die on. Not the economy, not taxes, not defense, not foreign policy, not even gun rights brings out the passion that those two do. And they are losing issues. As long as the only options given to voters are a choice between two extremes, the end result will always be extreme, and your chances of winning are no better than 50-50.

Why they don't adopt more moderate positions on both, portray the democrats for the absurd extremists that they are on both (live-birth "abortions" and MtF trans being women and becoming pregnant and grooming), and develop a platform around issues that are winners?

There is no such thing as gay rights, same for women's rights. We all have the same individual rights. A lot of people are really confused on this issue. Abortion is state issue as it always should have been.