Long time no rant!shachihokoNovember 9 2012, 13:07:57 UTC
Wow, haven't seen one of these posts from you in a long while ... good to know you're still alive and around, and active on LiveJournal. (Actually maybe it hasn't been THAT long, but I tend to gloss over the DJ Particle music stuff ^^;;)
I'm not convinced that the Republican Party is capable of dragging itself back towards the center at this point, short of the tea party contingent being split off entirely. (... which is more or less what you said, except maybe for reversing the cause/effect pairing.) It may well be that the Republican Party as a whole needs to break apart and a new second party organize in its stead, or that a current "third party" rises to fill the incipient organizational vacuum for conservatives. Granted, it's as possible for me to be wrong as it is for anyone else.
One slight quibble re: "religion is supposed to stay out of politics by Constitutional edict" ...
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
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Re: Long time no rant!emiofbrieNovember 9 2012, 17:46:59 UTC
First of all, the Founders were mostly deists, not necessarily Christians. In fact, Jefferson was most likely atheist (or at least agnostic).
The point I was making is, once religion becomes a party platform, then it basically *is* similar to trying to hold one religion above all others as "official", which is against the Constitution. I'm not saying the candidates themselves can't profess their religion, just that a party platform shouldn't be doing it.
Re: Long time no rant!shachihokoNovember 10 2012, 14:30:16 UTC
A little belatedly - can't really argue with THAT point, particularly as a lot of the colonists had been fleeing from religious persecution in Europe. Which is why we have the First Amendment in the first place.
Re: Long time no rant!emiofbrieNovember 9 2012, 21:43:50 UTC
good to know you're still alive and around, and active on LiveJournal
Also, I'm not as active on LJ as I used to be. I save my LJ for longer posts now. Most of my activity, and my more impulsive short posts, are on my Facebook, and most of my DJ Particle stuff is on my music Facebook :) Also, my longer posts here are also mirrored in the "Notes" section of my main FB, and my show's playlists are in the "Notes" section of my music FB.
Basically, most of my old LJ friends have abandoned LJ for FB, so I moved with them and frankly, I like FB's format for short impulsive posts better. :)
Re: Long time no rant!shachihokoNovember 9 2012, 22:37:42 UTC
I spent some time considering whether to get a Facebook account or not, finally came down hard against it, so. ^^;; Yeah, not budging from LJ any time soon unless it gets really horrible.
I'm not convinced that the Republican Party is capable of dragging itself back towards the center at this point, short of the tea party contingent being split off entirely. (... which is more or less what you said, except maybe for reversing the cause/effect pairing.) It may well be that the Republican Party as a whole needs to break apart and a new second party organize in its stead, or that a current "third party" rises to fill the incipient organizational vacuum for conservatives. Granted, it's as possible for me to be wrong as it is for anyone else.
One slight quibble re: "religion is supposed to stay out of politics by Constitutional edict" ...
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of ( ... )
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The point I was making is, once religion becomes a party platform, then it basically *is* similar to trying to hold one religion above all others as "official", which is against the Constitution. I'm not saying the candidates themselves can't profess their religion, just that a party platform shouldn't be doing it.
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Also, I'm not as active on LJ as I used to be. I save my LJ for longer posts now. Most of my activity, and my more impulsive short posts, are on my Facebook, and most of my DJ Particle stuff is on my music Facebook :) Also, my longer posts here are also mirrored in the "Notes" section of my main FB, and my show's playlists are in the "Notes" section of my music FB.
Basically, most of my old LJ friends have abandoned LJ for FB, so I moved with them and frankly, I like FB's format for short impulsive posts better. :)
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