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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It’s both party’s fault that America’s abortion laws don’t reflect what most Americans want. Most of the political energy on the issue comes from conservative Republicans. But doing the 180 degree opposite of what your enemy wants - in this case countering the most restrictive abortion laws in the Western world with the least restrictive - usually makes for bad policy.
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Well, no. Policy should be judged on its actual merits, not whether it’s the opposite of another proposed policy. There are plenty of policies where a good policy is the polar opposite of a bad policy.
Legal slavery? Bad. Making slavery illegal? Good.
Centrists: “Instead of these extremes, we must find a middle ground where some people can own some slaves.”
Sounds silly if you just pretend two “extremes” are equal, or that two opposites are both “extreme” just because they’re opposite. That’s an anti-intellectual way of approaching essentially any issue, but is absolutely how those who have succumbed to identity politics and the treatment of politics as left/right team sports would have you believe these things should be approached. Very often, in the real world, the opposite of an extreme policy is a sensible one.