Post election stupefaction in place here.
The Republican party managed to hoodwink
a record number of American voters. I do
no worse under the Republicans than the
Democrats, but I do not see how anyone
with a social conscience can vote Republican.
The Republican party scam is to transfer
wealth from poor to rich, but use decoys,
such as 'family values' and national security
to confuse voters. A huge debt has been
established, America is bankrupt, and Bush
had a lot to do with it. Tax cuts to the
wealthy, isn't this stealing--going into
debt to give back to the rich, it makes no
sense. My kickback was a few hundreds of
dollars, the kickbacks to very high incomes
was grotesque--tens of thousands of dollars.
For what? Do the rich need to upgrade from
Lexus to Mercedes?
There was some good commentary the other day,
I saw a powerful Pastor in a Hawaiian print
shirt explain the whole thing as personal
values overshadowing social values. I don't
think he even realized that he identified
the principal weakness of the Republican
party: Some people who vote Republican
believe that they are making a more moral
choice. What is completely lost on them,
is that personal morality is for their God
to judge. While on Earth, you are supposed
to love your neighbor as yourself and not judge.
Of course, I suppose Bush will do a lot of
judging when he essentially reconfigures the
Supreme court to push his agenda.
My wife is against abortion*, I am pro choice.
She is Lutheran, I was Lutheran--now I am
an atheist. She is a lawyer, I am a public
servant. We both respect friends and
acquaintances who are gay, though we don't
understand it--and we agree that marriage
should only be a religious ceremony and
government should not have a thing to do with
it. That is a tricky point for an atheist, but
I'll sort it out one day;-)
I have a strong sense that the American worker
has been swindled--starting with Reagan voodoo
economics, but no matter what happens with the
economy, I will likely have my government job.
Complicated isn't it? But Rove never wanted
my vote. The Bush campaign knows where the
easy votes are, and they got them. Smart and
scary--some liberals may even smell a whiff
of evil. Onward Christian soldiers.
A lot of Christians are not at all Christlike.
More...
I have a net worth of about 1M: The
Democrats could put a chicken in every pot,
but I will still be eating my steak, and
yet I have more respect for Howard Dean,
more of a socialist I think, than Kerry,
who never seemed a champion of the poor
urban voter, but rater the educated elite.
As I said, I'm dazed and confused.
The only thing I know for sure, is
that Bush has got to be the dumbest
president of the past 50 years or so.
I am not the sharpest tool in the shed,
and I sure that Bush is a dullard.
(*except in the case of rape or incest) |
