Thinking your political opponents are duped by propaganda just means you lack the ability to think outside your bubble and understand people who have different values and priorities. Certainly abortion views are not the result of GOP propaganda, seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa, and the subject of careful compromises in all but a few liberal democracies. (Views on immigration, same sex marriage, multiculturalism, etc., aren’t the product of “propaganda” either. Most people in my home country of Bangladesh would agree with the GOP on all those issues—especially if the shoe were on the other foot and you were talking about e.g. hearing people speak foreign languages in Dhaka—but they certainly don’t have positive views of the GOP itself.)

This myopia is a great shortcoming of democrats (of the last 20 years—the party used to be savvier in the past), because it leads them to believe that politics is about lecturing and badgering, instead of building coalitions of people who agree more than they disagree.

Thanks for elaborating my point in detail. For reference, my post

"There are no wedge issues - propaganda doesn't actually exist. At the very least, my team doesn't do it."

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abortion_Laws.svg

I don’t understand your response. Are you saying all those other people in other countries are duped by GOP propaganda as well?

> seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa

List of countries with same or more restrictive laws for abortion when compared with Texas

Europe - None

Asia - Afghanistan, iraq, syria, Yemen, Burma, Papua new Guinea, Bangladesh

Africa - Somalia, Mali, Malawi, south Sudan, Congo, Niger, Nigeria, Madagascar.

America - Venezuela, Haiti, Suriname, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, tiny Caribbean islands.

Your use of the phrase "seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa" would have been a great example of propaganda, especially considering that no country in Europe is as restrictive as Texas. Especially, leading with "Europe,..." instead of leading with " barely 2 dozen non European countries across the 200+ countries in the world".

But as we all know wedge issues and propaganda don't exist. So, my previous paragraph can actually be deleted.