Consider the following social experiment.
There is an
auditorium with 100 people seated, only 10 among them have megaphones.
The second group of
people is seated at distance from the auditorium such that only the voices
emanating from the megaphones are audible
The third group
is insulated from all noise from the auditorium, they can only read
transcripts of the utterances within the auditorium.
The 100 individuals
in the auditorium engage in a debate on pro-choice vs pro-life.
In the
auditorium, only the 10 fanatical proponents of abortion have megaphones. They
are also permitted to move around the auditorium. They are privately informed
that any violence on their part will be ignored.
Of the remaining
90 in the auditorium, most are pro-life and want abortions to be outlawed in
all situations. Some say abortion only be permitted during the early stages of
pregnancy for situations such as rape or incest or the possibility of harm to
the mother. Some aren’t keen to talk about this very personal matter but were
forced to appear. This group has to rely solely on vocal cords to be audible.
They must remain seated. They informed that severe punishment will be
meted out of if they threaten or even raise a finger against the 10 with the
megaphone.
As the debate
progresses, the 10 pro-choice individuals with the megaphone shout down the
pro-lifers, they also indulge in mocking, ridiculing, and deriding the
pro-lifers. The pelt objects at the pro-lifers and even knock down a few of
them.
When the debate
concludes, the audience who could only hear voices from the megaphones is
polled. A majority claims that most in the auditorium were pro-choice and that
they didn’t hear a single compelling argument that was pro-life.
Now the audience
who could only read the transcript is polled. They read the arguments on both
sides and infer that the pro-life contingent emerged on top by a wide margin.
This is an exact
allegory of the situation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs Wave (1973)
which allows the state to decide the legality of abortion.
If you have been
watching the coverage in the mainstream media, you would be pardoned for
thinking that the entire country is enraged by the ruling and wants to demolish
the Supreme Court.
This is because
the Democrats control the media.
Their range of
coverage began with a miserable Nancy Pelosi sounding like she was bereaved and
ended with an angry Maxine Watters using inflammatory language cursing the
Supreme Court and threatening to defy the ruling. The pundits and news anchors
echo these sentiments. There is also favorable coverage of ‘activists’ marching
for abortion. The violence and threats are downplayed or defined as righteous
anger.
The pro-life
group that supports the overturning of Roe Vs Wade keeps their opinions private.
They have jobs and families hence they do not have the time to indulge in
protests, marches, and demonstrations. They are law-abiding and do not believe
in property destruction and violence as a means to express dissent.
To sum it the
pro-choice people are a minority whose voices are amplified while the pro-life
people are a majority whose voices are suppressed.
The Supreme Court
ruling is a resounding victory for President Trump, the GOP, and for
conservatism.
Almost every
Democrat that denounced the ruling blamed President Trump and called his
appointees extremists. It is almost as if they were kicking off Trump's 2024
campaign for the White House.
The immediate
impact is the margin of victory for the GOP during November got bigger.
The
Democrats have refreshed public memory regarding their violence, intolerance,
and extremism. Their true colors are once again on display on a much wider
canvas.
The
people will be reminded that these aren’t Democrats of the 90s that said
abortions should be “safe,
legal, and rare”. This isn’t even the Democrat party of 2008 when
Hillary Clinton said
the same thing during a presidential debate.
The
Democrat party now hysterically celebrates abortions and reacts violently to
anyone who doesn't subscribe to this perspective.
When the
draft that provided the rationale for overturning Roe Vs Wade was leaked last
month. The Democrats went on a rampage. There was an assassination
plot against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, that
was fortunately thwarted. Miscreants
had vandalized Catholic
churches and pregnancy
centers. Thugs tossed a
Molotov cocktail into the offices of a pro-life group.
Threatening and profanity-laced demonstrations were conducted outside the homes
of conservative justices’ and have been going on for over a month.
If the
threat of overturning Roe Vs. Wade caused such a violent reaction, we can only
imagine the reaction now that Roe Vs Wade has actually been overturned.
Most,
people, including moderate Democrats, will be horrified to see the conduct of
their fellow Democrats.
So how
should the GOP react?
The
biggest mistake that GOP lawmakers could commit is to confuse the cacophonous
voices of Democrat trouble makers and the consensus of the silent
majority.
This
conflation was probably among the reasons that some in the GOP capitulated
before the Democrats and passed a Gun Control Bill a few days back, that among
other things, enables the confiscation of guns merely on the basis of suspicion.
If the
GOP panics once again because of the noise around them in Washington and works
with the Democrats to pass a law that either undoes or dilutes the overturning
of Roe Vs. Wade it would be suicidal.
The GOP
will now be judged on two levels.
Firstly
how GOP governors react. This isn’t merely issuing statements of condemnation
against the violence or being pro-life. GOP governors must use all their powers
to protect their citizens against unruly mobs. They must be uncompromising as
they enforce the laws and no appeasement of rioters.
Citizens
have a right to march or protest peacefully, but none has the right to
vandalize, loot, or riot.
GOP
lawmakers in Washington have a few very easy tasks. They must reiterate their
pro-life stand. They must venerate the Supreme Court for being protectors of
the constitution. They must denounce the Democrats for being proponents of
barbaric abortion practices and for their anti-democratic stand, their
violence, and their intolerance. The GOP must also call out the Democrats must for
interfering in the workings of the Supreme Court, being anti-Democratic by
threatening the Supreme Court, and being enablers of lawlessness. The GOP can cement
its reputation of being the party of law and order.
A cherry
on the cake would be if the GOP can pass laws to protect citizens and empower
law enforcement as the Democrat miscreants and thugs
The GOP
must not interrupt the Democrats who are rapidly imploding before everybody's
eyes.
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