Stupid Politics
Sep. 2nd, 2008 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hesperornisYou know, I gave up hoping for the perfect candidates a long time ago, but I was really looking forward to having a couple of really solid choices this time around. I was cautiously enthusiastic about both candidates and their respective VP choices.
Now I find out that Governor Palin is a friggin' creationist.
I hate to be a one-issue voter, especially since deciding to vote pro-life was one of the main reasons I voted for Bush, and I eventually ended up disagreeing with virtually everything else he did. I also hate to reflexively vote against the Republicans. I'm not a fan of heavy government involvement, and my dad keeps telling me just how much "universal health care" is not going to work as promised.
But I have very, very few buttons to be pushed that I really feel I know something about, and keeping "Intelligent Design" out of science classrooms is one of them. Normally, I would assume that the VP doesn't really have that much say in such things, but I've been recently reading about how Dick Cheney personally managed to see to it that the Endangered species act was violated, in Oregon, back in 2001, with the blessing of the National Science Foundation. So I guess there's some clout to be had. And there are enough people willing to believe the line that "all views deserve to be heard" (so go take a comparative religions class! grumblegrr...) that it would worry me a bit to have another person in the White House who thinks that ID is science.
It's tempting to give up what research I'd been doing into the issues and just resign myself to voting Democratic, but I still feel the need to try to convince myself that Obama is all we've been hoping for... or at least a little bit of what we've been hoping for.
Please forgive this barely informed ramble. *puts away soapbox* God I hate politics so much.
Now I find out that Governor Palin is a friggin' creationist.
I hate to be a one-issue voter, especially since deciding to vote pro-life was one of the main reasons I voted for Bush, and I eventually ended up disagreeing with virtually everything else he did. I also hate to reflexively vote against the Republicans. I'm not a fan of heavy government involvement, and my dad keeps telling me just how much "universal health care" is not going to work as promised.
But I have very, very few buttons to be pushed that I really feel I know something about, and keeping "Intelligent Design" out of science classrooms is one of them. Normally, I would assume that the VP doesn't really have that much say in such things, but I've been recently reading about how Dick Cheney personally managed to see to it that the Endangered species act was violated, in Oregon, back in 2001, with the blessing of the National Science Foundation. So I guess there's some clout to be had. And there are enough people willing to believe the line that "all views deserve to be heard" (so go take a comparative religions class! grumblegrr...) that it would worry me a bit to have another person in the White House who thinks that ID is science.
It's tempting to give up what research I'd been doing into the issues and just resign myself to voting Democratic, but I still feel the need to try to convince myself that Obama is all we've been hoping for... or at least a little bit of what we've been hoping for.
Please forgive this barely informed ramble. *puts away soapbox* God I hate politics so much.
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:09 am (UTC)Well, I survived that nasty part of my life, and though I am happy with the person I am now (and as a human being is, arguably, the sum of his/her experiences) those are not memories I cherish.
I think there are some very conflicting messages our culture sends about sex that require an adult mind to sort through. For example, there seems to be this general assumption that men are always horny and want to have sex no matter what. This myth is then taken to the next level by arguing that men cannot be expected to control themselves sexually, especially if there is a girl around who is wearing a short skirt and is drunk.
Many people say that feminists are man-haters, but I don't think that has to be the case. Feminists say that men do have the ability to control themselves, that they aren't just testosterone driven animal, and I think that is a far more man-loving view of men then some of these nasty myths that stick around.
Sigh.