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How very pro-life of Texas.
I think there's been some confusion here. They're pro-life, but only their life. For everyone else, you get a thought and maybe a prayer and a "well, it must have been god's will".
Wrong. They're pro death. Be it reproductive healthcare, healthcare in general, law enforcement, gun control, environmental policy, you name it. Every single one of their policies is designed to get people killed.
So as someone who grew up in a very very Republican family, that's only half true.
They're not pro-life or anti-life, they're sublimely indifferent because they're certain they're immune to the consequences.
They're not going to have a pregnancy that risks the life of their wife. They're not going to end up unemployed and without health insurance. They're not going to get arrested for a crime. They're not going to have a shooting kill their kid. And so on.
It's a weird mix between ostrich syndrome and just plain denial of reality: they live in a zone where nothing bad will happen to them, but on the off chance it does, it happened because they deserved it.
Being republican requires a lot of the same worldview that being abused by a narcissist requires, which makes the fact Trump is STILL popular a lot easier to understand, IMO.
And, to make it worse, even if a horrible thing happens, they'll STILL refuse to change their views, because well, what are the odds it'd ever happen again? They're sure it won't, so they're safe.
As a far too personal experience, my 13 year old cousin got his uncle's gun, and ended up shooting and killing himself accidentally.
Now you, a normal rational person, might go 'holy fuck! we shouldn't have guns left laying around where any kids could possibly ever get them!', and I'd agree.
I'll let you guess exactly what the rest of my family did, instead.
You can't change their minds, because you cannot argue against blind faith that nothing bad will happen, or at least it won't happen twice.
So yeah, their policies will kill lots of people, but it won't kill their family, so that's not even a factor in their thinking because you don't matter to them.
Yeah they're pro death of other people but that doesn't change my point.
Not even their life with how they actively try to destroy their own life.
Pro pain
It's the only actually consistent thing they do.
Evangelicals are big into the redemptive suffering bit, so making their own lives miserable at least aligns with their stated beliefs. (Nothing else does, though.)