Why are they still trying. Shows their mentality. The supreme court is not respected by them. They will never get over progress. Republicans have voted against Medicare, Social security, the voting rights act, the civil rights act, the housing rights act, Healthcare for Children, affordable health care act. The list goes on and on. It would seem they will never get over change. Change of any type. When the democrats suggested that people on the terrorist watch list should have their right to purchase fire arms restricted, the republicans objected to that as well. They won't stop trying to overturn the right to choose for women either despite the fact that 70% of Americans are pro choice.
The fact that they will not accept evolution to be a fact shows there disregard for science. Look where that has got the US when it comes to the Pandemic. That is the most worrying thing about theses bills. Fail or pass, they show an attitude to science that is unbelievable. 3 or 4 decades ago that was not the case. This is the country that sent a man to the moon and was at the forefront of scientific discoveries. It's what made the US economy a powerhouse globally. Now republicans take every chance they can get to defund science. Trump cut funding to the CDC in his first budget. Look at the consequences of that now.

@dermot235

1. That most of these bills fail in their first committees, and
2. that legislatures ignore the survivors,
   happily show an absence of widespread support among voters.
   According to NCSE, the same legislators introduce these bills year after year, so it’s probable that these legislators are these bills only strong supporters.

Republican opposition to advancements has various explanations They include:

1. wanting to reverse Franklin Roosevelt 1930s New Deal (Social Security. etc),
2. the Party’s western conservatives election losses in the late 1940s and 1950s,
3. the Party’s far right’s expulsion of moderates in the early 1960s,
4. Nixon’s recruiting Southern racists in the late 1960s (see southern strategy in Wikipedia),
5. their recruiting evangelicals in the 1970s and 1980s, who took over state GOPs,
6. their decision in the mid-1980s to stop the New Deal programs if necessary, by lowering taxes for the rich until they bankrupt the gov’t, and
7. the national GOPs exploiting (doing nothing for and angering) the evangelicals.

Trump the demagogue comes along, declares war on the national GOP, and wins.
In short, the GOP is a sick party, but the Dems fuck up often enough to keep the GOP alive.

@yvilletom I think you have summed up things well. It may take a severe punishing at the Polls to make the GOP change it's way. Or maybe they have just gone to far and there is no turning back for them. Time will tell.

@dermot235 I’m keeping an eye on the Lincoln Project, anti-Trump Republicans.

The fungus and mushroom theory of education, keep them in the dark and feed them on Bullshit.