Well, it’s hard to sound intelligent in your arguments when one ignorantly makes insulting comments, but I hope the substance of my previous posts will be taken into account more than my error.
Yes, and I agree with your sentiment, seemingly on all fronts—from Frink’s responses, to conflating the bad apples with the whole bunch, to liberals thinking themselves or their arguments intellectually superior.
For myself though, I really wonder how often Republicans (or perhaps mainly those with power or influence?) use “defending the life and liberty of the child” as a banner of supposed morality when really that’s not their endgame at all. For example, it was people on the Republican side that conflated Starbucks removing winter depictions from their cups as a moral attack on Christmas. Certainly there is an argument to be made about when life starts or how abortion should be regulated. But many Republicans seem to be as intransigently firm from feeling morally superior as Democrats are at feeling intellectually superior, and they both aren’t interested in furthering actual debate.
As a Democrat myself—A Christian Democrat—it irks me all around.