Talking politics
Sep. 26th, 2008 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdWhy am I a liberal?
My positions are pragmatic:
1) I have 2 mentally ill children and 1 with pre-existing conditions. I have pre-existing ear conditions and we're watching cervical abnormalities. McCain wants to tax my health insurance policy. He wants to toss us into the free market with a $5000 voucher and a pat on the head.
2) We are a queer family. Republicans introduce and pass bad legislation on that front. A man they seriously considered for president, Judge Roy Moore, said the state should "use all its power, including the power of the sword, to discourage such lifestyles."
3) We are a pagan family. Palin keeps company with a witch-hunter. Don't think for a minute Africa wouldn't export their current Burning Times if we let them. Don't think there aren't Christians in this country working to encourage that.
4) There are female members of the family. Birth control is not an optional afterthought in this household. The end goal of the larger pro-life movement is Griswold, since bodily autonomy is the key to all of women's advancement. Hard to advance when you've got kids. Trust me on that point. And forcing someone to carry a rapist's baby (whether the rapist is related or not) is just sheer cruelty. Pro-life policies kill women. We knew this in the 50s and 60s. We see it now in South America. My daughters must have all the options I had, if not more.
For us, voting democrat is literally a matter of life and death.
In those who squee over Palin, all I hear in their cheers is "You should die now, kthxbai. Oh, and we'll help."
My positions are pragmatic:
1) I have 2 mentally ill children and 1 with pre-existing conditions. I have pre-existing ear conditions and we're watching cervical abnormalities. McCain wants to tax my health insurance policy. He wants to toss us into the free market with a $5000 voucher and a pat on the head.
2) We are a queer family. Republicans introduce and pass bad legislation on that front. A man they seriously considered for president, Judge Roy Moore, said the state should "use all its power, including the power of the sword, to discourage such lifestyles."
3) We are a pagan family. Palin keeps company with a witch-hunter. Don't think for a minute Africa wouldn't export their current Burning Times if we let them. Don't think there aren't Christians in this country working to encourage that.
4) There are female members of the family. Birth control is not an optional afterthought in this household. The end goal of the larger pro-life movement is Griswold, since bodily autonomy is the key to all of women's advancement. Hard to advance when you've got kids. Trust me on that point. And forcing someone to carry a rapist's baby (whether the rapist is related or not) is just sheer cruelty. Pro-life policies kill women. We knew this in the 50s and 60s. We see it now in South America. My daughters must have all the options I had, if not more.
For us, voting democrat is literally a matter of life and death.
In those who squee over Palin, all I hear in their cheers is "You should die now, kthxbai. Oh, and we'll help."
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Date: 2008-09-27 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-27 06:24 am (UTC)Obama and Biden are not perfect by any stretch, but I know damn well that they're (a), and why the hell should I even give (b) the time of day, knowing that they harbor an ideology with no room for me to even co-exist in it?