Abortion, gay marriage and all this other bullshit back on the ballot is the reason why America fucking sucks.
This is the issue of having an adversarial political system within a democratic republic with a weak federal government.
These politicians really don't care about how the overall country is doing, they only care about their state.
What the Republicans are trying to do is make Klan governments within their state by subverting the federal government through the use of the court system.
So it doesn't really matter what people want or what people vote for, only thing that matters is the federal government being unable to protect it's citizens from the Klan governments that the Republicans set up.
Republicans understand how to build a proactive base by seizing control of institutions.
Republicans have an overwhelming influence over law enforcement, the church, the military. Republicans have the number one news show in the country.
Democrats dominate Hollywood and the Academy but those places are elitist silos. It's a refuge, where people eat up the liberal bullshit, say Latinx instead of Latino...you know meaningless bullshit.
Law enforcement, the church, the military...that's where you can impose your will, your message on to the masses.
Democrats try to win elections by being popular and shit... Republicans win elections by institution building and installing their people into key positions within society.
Democrats loss a long time ago, like in the 90s. Democrats stupidly just betted on America becoming a minority majority nation and immigrants voting Democrat consistently like we do.
While Republicans were out here building pipelines for conservative judges, building news network for Republican propaganda.
This is what happens when one party wants to rule and the other party just wants to be popular.