A Very Special Election
In an effort to raise the level of discourse around here, I find myself reduced to bringing in outside help. Frequent Ministry reader Patton offers some thoughts on how the Dems and Reps are bending over backwards to court the retard vote this year. Bible banning, the draft, forgeries, and Halliburton Halliburton Halliburton out the wazoo (out your wazoo too!). Go read!
[wik] I'm probably too proud of my headlines today.
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re: [wik] - your headlines
re: [wik] - your headlines today have frankly kicked ass. So, probably not.
I wish "Very Special Election" or one of its derivatives had occurred to me. Sadly, whenever I deign to pound out a post, it tends to be very stream-of-consciousness, and the editor I don't have would be the one to blame for my bland headlines. If she existed.
Oh, and back on topic: the search for the retard vote, pretty much all by itself, is the reason for the bad joss I think abounds this election season. But I think you knew that already.
You're correct, of course,
You're correct, of course, Mapgirl. The immediacy of the current trolling for mouth-breathers just makes it seem a lot worse. In fact, it's only a little worse than I can ever recall having seen.
What IS different this time, I think, is the degree of (artificial) polarization - I honestly don't believe that everyone left of center is an atheist who wants to close all the churches and ban the bible, any more than I believe that everyone right of center wants forced conversions to Christianity or circumcisions and bar mitzvahs.
A simplistic example, but a visitor from Mars could get the impression that religion, or any of about five other pseudo-polarizing issues, was by itself the reason we're all going to the polls.
Just ain't so, and I've grown weary of both parties trying to pretend that it is. Voters whose votes "get bought" based on any of these single issues can't be counted on to "stay bought". In this way, the "dumbass issues" are like cheap carbohydrates - they'll just screw up your metabolism, without doing any permanent good, defined as providing a mandate for action that won't be waffled on like Aunt Jemima later, when it's really important. Or make one puke as if from a low blood sugar attack.
Patton - but don't you think
Patton - but don't you think that happens every election season? It's never very high brow.