I appreciate your thoughts on this. I have many but it is worth starting with the obvious point of agreement between us: duh, are people really surprised? The time to be upset over this decision was actually way back in 2016 and, to be fair, many were. But I think it didn't dawn on everyone then, though it should have, what the eventual end game was - abortion illegal in the entire US and territories. I have my own thoughts on how far people really want to go in changing the US (pretty far) that I would be ok discussing someday but not now. Suffice it to say that I think this is going to a wedge issue for a long time still.
But really what I am curious about that you may have some insight on is what the leaker was trying to accomplish - is it that they thought releasing this would convince someone to switch sides? If so, to which side? Or to prevent someone from switching sides? Who is meant to be influenced and to what ends?
I appreciate your thoughts on this. I have many but it is worth starting with the obvious point of agreement between us: duh, are people really surprised? The time to be upset over this decision was actually way back in 2016 and, to be fair, many were. But I think it didn't dawn on everyone then, though it should have, what the eventual end game was - abortion illegal in the entire US and territories. I have my own thoughts on how far people really want to go in changing the US (pretty far) that I would be ok discussing someday but not now. Suffice it to say that I think this is going to a wedge issue for a long time still.
But really what I am curious about that you may have some insight on is what the leaker was trying to accomplish - is it that they thought releasing this would convince someone to switch sides? If so, to which side? Or to prevent someone from switching sides? Who is meant to be influenced and to what ends?