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Entry: No, McCain Won't End Abortion Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_wont_end_abortion#21977 Post contents: Digby Dolen sed: "Abortion CAN be stopped, but only gradually, by persuading women that it is DESTRUCTIVE of their feminine natures." Excellent wisdom and insight. Left Feminists like to argue that the anti-abortion coalition is complsed of "Old White Men" imposing their "plutocratic values" on powerless, hapless females. In fact the anti-abortion movement is composed mostly of women who feel betrayed at being counseled that abortion was an easy and simple "solution" to their unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. The real importance of abortion in the political discourse to both parties is how to leverage it to win political power...Republicans talk like social populists, but govern like plutocrats, while the Democracrats have been lost since 1968 in a mis-mash of "identity politics" that has largely rendered them irrelevant to the broad majoirty of middle class Americans. Abortion, like race, is a "wedge issue" and has no importance but to distract the public from the real economic agenda of the power elite, which I define as Big Business, Big Media and Big Academia. Sent at: 2008 07 24