YES! They need new issues to motivate their hard-right base.
33%
YES! The GOP relies on fear and hate to win elections.
67%
Asked on Nov. 4, 2015 11:38 am
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This is the same BS they used to defeat the ERA back in the 1970's. Guess cons hate to lose a scare tactic.
This is a huge mistake for the left. Eighty years ago Margaret Mead demonstrated that, cross-culturally, personality traits are not linked to sex (gender). Sure, poor Bradley Manning was taught by the Army that "real men" are bloodthirsty serial killers. But that is pure bull. Gandhi, Russell, MLK and the Berrigan Brothers are/were all "real men". Transsexuals mutilate their bodies and give up any chance for orgasms to conform with the sexual "norms" of a very sick society.
Roland
Both right answers actually,those are the only things they can win with, and fear mongering.