A lot of what you say echoes how I felt after the last two elections. It's discouraging and disappointing, and you don't feel like you have a voice. My current housemate is a staunch republican and she's worried we will get socialized healthcare and become a wellfare state. Luckily I think those are both extremely unlikely, and the best thing I think that has come of this weird election is that people who are usually indignant are having real conversations about political issues. This afternoon I talked to my housemate for about half an hour about why she really thought that socialized healthcare was a bad option, and why privatized insurance was better. I mean about the fundamentals of human nature and competition and the place of government regulation in big industries, and I'm really excited to be having those conversations. I know you and I have fairly different outlooks on both the personal and political spectrums, but I hope you don't feel like everyone who is on My Side of the Fence (tm) will be reactionary and aggressive.
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No, I don't thing that everyone on Your Side (tm) is reactionary and aggressive. I will say that it's disappointing to me when I found out a number of people I counted a friends only were interested in being friends with me so long as I kept my views to myself. One person's response was, "How can you be pro-life? I thought you were intelligent." Um, yeah. Not a great way to encourage dialogue. One of the things that disgusts me is some of the reactions out in CA over Prop 8. Harassing church goers and vandalizing churches isn't the way to go to win over opponents. (However, it's worked for radical Islam. Take a picture of Christ and smear it with crap, it's art! You don't get the same thing with pictures of Mohammad. People don't expect that Christians will take to the streets and cause millions of dollars of damage from riots. They know that Muslims will.) Getting back to being able to have a tolerant discussion, the Catherine Vogt experiment is fascinating reading, particularly since these middle schoolers can't vote
I will be posting my own thoughts on my own "journal" (it's not much of one at present) in coming days, but there's nothing in this entry I can disagree with.
The fact is, we are now at the Obama regime's mercy. If "all" we get is a more intense revisitation of Jimmy Carter, we will be lucky. And that's clearly how it will appear to start out. [That and the forthcoming elimination of all legal barriers to the slaughter of the innocents in the abortion mills. That alone should have disqualified him from the consideration of any voter of conscience, and several Catholic bishops tried to say as much.]
But if you know where to look, and if you know your 20th century history, you will find indicators of something far more sinister in the works. Can anyone spell "Reichstag fire"???
People vote, people get elected, next year we do the dance all over again. I'm not to worried about the downfall of our country. One brilliant thing about term limits is that it imposes a strict line of damage control. It is almost impossible to do irreparable harm in a single term. I do agree that it was the Republican's failings by nominating McCain. Thompson or even Huckabee would have been a better, more articulate choice against Obama. But then again I thought that McCain would be running against Hillary (which would have been a Republican slam dunk in my opinion).
But for now I'm content to gather the base, review what went wrong, reach out to the youth vote - because an educated youth, in my opinion, will side with Republicans. And next year we try again, and the year after that. I severely hope that my fears about Obama are incorrect though, this is one time when I'd gladly be wrong.
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Catherine Vogt experiment is fascinating reading, particularly since these middle schoolers can't vote
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The fact is, we are now at the Obama regime's mercy. If "all" we get is a more intense revisitation of Jimmy Carter, we will be lucky. And that's clearly how it will appear to start out. [That and the forthcoming elimination of all legal barriers to the slaughter of the innocents in the abortion mills. That alone should have disqualified him from the consideration of any voter of conscience, and several Catholic bishops tried to say as much.]
But if you know where to look, and if you know your 20th century history, you will find indicators of something far more sinister in the works. Can anyone spell "Reichstag fire"???
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But for now I'm content to gather the base, review what went wrong, reach out to the youth vote - because an educated youth, in my opinion, will side with Republicans. And next year we try again, and the year after that. I severely hope that my fears about Obama are incorrect though, this is one time when I'd gladly be wrong.
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