...you're not being patronized. That's entirely not the point. What I'm saying here, and in part doing so with deliberately inflammatory arguments, is simply this: there's too much at stake, for all of us, to focus laser-like on the fact that people we otherwise support are not uniformly in agreement with us on everything. That's where this pervasive cynicism enfolding political discourse comes from.

I'm not pleased with the Dems on some issues either - trade comes to mind. Am I going to put them on the same rhetorical shelf as creatures of pure evil like Rick Santorum? Also, no. The difference is agency; you're not going to see a Dem starting to legislate against choice.

I could go on and argue that the choice movement has been out-argued, out-spent and out-organized by its enemies, which is part of the reason why the Dems are open to receiving votes from anti-choice voters, and have some anti-choice actors in our folds. Seventy or eighty out of a hundred Americans are pro-choice to some extent, true enough; but that doesn't stop a good portion of those folks from voting for a party that expressly wants to abolish your right to choose. Are you going to blame the Dems for not ignoring that? Or is it maybe time to start agitating against the other side?

Because, as you rightly note, all of this is connected?