My lone venting comment

[valarltd]

I don't know why anyone is surprised.

For every LJ liberal with gay friends or a same-sex spouse, there are 3-9 real world folks who would just as happily see all the queers rounded up and shot like rabid dogs, or at least deported back where they came from and away from defiling Murrican soil.

For every pro-choice blogger, there is a real world person who blockades or bombs the clinics.

For every astute political commentator here, there are three knotheads shouting "My country, right or wrong! And we're Never Wrong. Go Back to France, you traitors!"

For every atheist, agnostic, or non-Christian, there are 4 Christians in this country. At least 2 of whom favor making it a theocracy.

For every Christian who recognizes that when the church dictates to the state, the state can also dictate to the church, there is another who thinks that's just dandy.


I had hoped for the best. I was pleasantly surprised that Kerry managed 48% of the vote. Not bad for a "placeholder candidate." He was, and we knew this back in March. Somewhere, he forgot that and started trying to win. Somewhere we forgot it and thought he might.

Everyone who is balking at that concession speech needs to think about why it was made, and the probable pressure from TPTB, the kingmakers of the parties (who are the same people for both parties), who said "Whoa, what's this? Take your fall nicely or you'll never work in politics again."

But this election has confirmed my worst observations about people.

"There are two things humans have never satisfied: their curiosity and their greed."
And there isn't much most people I know in real life are curious about.

For the religious right, and especially the women who are working so diligently to lose their own rights, I hope you enjoy the world you've wished on us.

Me, I curse you.

May your daughters die of draino douches trying to end pregnancies they are too frightened to tell you of.
May your sons contract AIDS from being whored out in the school showers by the president of the FCA.
May your wives leave you for other women.
May your husbands beat you and there be no place to flee.
May your jobs evaporate and the social safety net you've weakened not catch you.
May you lose health care on the day you are diagnosed with cancer.
And may your church turn its back on you for leading such an immoral life that these calamities befell you.

Comments

[destina.livejournal.com]

You know, ranting about other adults, casting judgment on them...it's tacky, but I don't really give a damn about that, because it's adults you're ranting about. But I'm totally not okay with someone wishing a painful illness or death on other folks' children. If you're the kind of person who would truly wish other people's children dead, sick or injured because you disagree with their politics, then I'm horrified.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I want their policies to rebound on their own heads.

Adding the children into the curse is a fine old country tradition.
No harm will come to anyone because of my words.

And in the end, everyone is someone's child, even adults. If the daughters are old enough to get pregnant and the sons are old enough to be in FCA, they are not children but teetering on the brink of adulthood.

[destina.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying --

And in the end, everyone is someone's child, even adults. If the daughters are old enough to get pregnant and the sons are old enough to be in FCA, they are not children but teetering on the brink of adulthood.

-- is that you feel totally justified in saying what you've said here. The point isn't whether or not harm will actually come to anyone, the point is whether or not you wish harm would come to them. And clearly you do. This doesn't read like a charming old country curse, Angel. It reads like pure hate.

But whatever. I'm just up to *here* with the hatred I've seen on LJ today. Time to take a break.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I feel totally justified having a bloody tantrum in my own journal, yes.

It's not meant to be charming. It's meant to be hateful and dangerous because what it's talking about is hateful and dangerous.

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

This doesn't read like a charming old country curse, Angel. It reads like pure hate.
Most old country curses are pure hate, or at least closer to it than they are to charming.

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

The real issue is not so much adults/children as people who made the choice you're angry about/people who didn't.