Political Stuff

[ninjahedge]

I said I'd write about political stuff, but I lost the motivation. However, I'm getting sick of people's ignorent shit, so I've regained the motivation. I am, however, tired and drunk, so we'll see if this works out

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A quibble or two

[polaris93]

Almost forgot: That's a gorgeous political analysis, and I agree with most of it, but I have some questions about the following paragraph:

"Anyway, so if you're going to hate bush, hate him for good reasons, there are plenty. Unlike Sadam, he is a religious fanatic. He's out to push his right-wing moral agenda on everyone else. Hate Bush because he won't legalize stemcell research. Hate bush because he wants to spend tens of millions of dollars on drug testing when schools don't have good books or teachers. Hate bush because he'll make all sorts of decisions based on the kooky morals of himself, his crazy cult, and their imaginary friend, that most people in the US don't subscribe too."

If President Bush is a political fanatic, then so is anyone who has any religious beliefs at all. I've met religious fanatics -- they're scary as hell. You can find them among Christians, Jews, Muslims, neopagans, atheists, Greens, New Agers, just about any religious group you want to name, and they are terrifying, because they can "justify" to themselves any atrocity they want to commit in the name of the religion they've picked to embrace, for just that reason. Simply having a religion is no reason to hate anyone. The President, unlike too many Americans, knows he cannot force people by the use of his office to believe his religion. Nor can he make law -- only Congress can do that, and if they choose not to cooperate with a sitting president on lawmaking, then that's just too bad for him, something which he also knows. Also, there's the Supreme Court, standing spang in the way of any president and/or Congress who tries to subvert the Bill of Rights in any way. So Dubya can't do what you're insisting he will do in office, that is, force the constraints of his morality and religion on the rest of us.

As for whether his morality is "kooky," are you seriously proposing that not doing murder, not stealing, and not testifying falsely under oath -- all parts of the 10 Commandments, the bedrock of the president's religion -- aer immoral? I think we need to think these through a bit longer.