believe it or not...benjaminmannNovember 8 2008, 20:35:37 UTC
...i'm pretty okay with how the election turned out. i wouldn't be happy with either outcome, but this one is no worse than the other.
a lot of very orthodox catholics are brainwashed by the republican party.
a lot of less orthodox catholics are brainwashed by the democratic party.
i wrote this to the lead singer of thoushaltnot, alex reed, with whom i had been corresponding about his support for obama:
"even though i never came to agree with you on this one, i did come to understand and respect your reasons much more during my own prudential and metapolitical process of deciding not to vote for either candidate.
"i feel the same in light of obama's victory as i would have if mccain had won, albeit for different reasons. that's proof, i suppose, that i no longer see eye to eye --if i ever did-- with the mainstream conservative and prolife movements.
"as the victors gain in assurance as to how they should now proceed, and the vanquished gain proportionately in their critical convictions, i only become proportionately perplexed as to any real and desirable way forward.
"it's a pretty strange equation-- largely because it would hold regardless of which side had won."
a lot of very orthodox catholics are brainwashed by the republican party.
a lot of less orthodox catholics are brainwashed by the democratic party.
i wrote this to the lead singer of thoushaltnot, alex reed, with whom i had been corresponding about his support for obama:
"even though i never came to agree with you on this one, i did come to understand and respect your reasons much more during my own prudential and metapolitical process of deciding not to vote for either candidate.
"i feel the same in light of obama's victory as i would have if mccain had won, albeit for different reasons. that's proof, i suppose, that i no longer see eye to eye --if i ever did-- with the mainstream conservative and prolife movements.
"as the victors gain in assurance as to how they should now proceed, and the vanquished gain proportionately in their critical convictions, i only become proportionately perplexed as to any real and desirable way forward.
"it's a pretty strange equation-- largely because it would hold regardless of which side had won."
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