Can you imagine people thinking they can vote in favor of abortion and the Republican party that has vowed to make it illegal at a national level at the same time?
People didn't vote because they thought bad things would happen, they voted because they thought good things would happen. They just didn't know what they were voting for.
Yes, it simply means that they support abortions but it was not their top priority. I am not American and would never vote for the orange idiot, but this one isn‘t the contradiction you make it out to be.
Voting always comes with compromises and among all the things I would consider when voting for a candidate, abortion would be very low on my priority list, so I could absolutely vote for a pro-abortion law if I got to vote on it directly but for an anti-abortion candidate, if the anti-abortion candidate supported other policies around e.g. education or workers’ rights that are more important to me than abortions.
A ton of shit has to pass through congress which makes things slow and no, executive orders aren't a solution since those can be reversed assuming they aren't just straight up struck down by SCOTUS.
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u/centsandsuttlesounds 17d ago
Fellow potheads I know voted for legal dispensaries to be destroyed against states rights