*a-HEM*

[the_gneech]

Because people are always looking for an excuse to give me flack:

• Being Christian doesn't make you evil. But it doesn't make you exempt from it, either. The whacko religious right, as I said already, does not refer to any Christian republican. It refers to the whacko ones. Many Christians are good people; in fact, most are. Same is true of most jews, most pagans, most muslims, most athiests, most agnostics, most buddhists, etc.
  
  
• Generalizations about what republicans do in power is not a poke at individuals who vote republican. The truth of the matter is that anybody in power either starts out corrupt or becomes so somewhere along the way. If I have to choose between the big two parties, I'd rather have the Publioobs over the Demidupes any day. At the same time, they'd be in for a fight.
  
  
• The Libertarian Party has its own share of whackos, and I don't want them in power any more than I want the whacko left or whacko right to be there, either.
  
  
• Most people would think I'm a whacko for wanting a super-strict interpretation of the Constitution, which would make about 85% of our current government illegal.
  
  
• Having a republican house, senate, and president does not make the U.S. into Nazi Germany, any more than having a democratic house, senate, and president made the U.S. into Stalinist Russia. Lighten up, people. The U.S. is a fundamentally free society, on a level more profound than the government can touch, no matter who's in power. Pick who you hate, Demidupes or Publioobs, I'd still rather be in a U.S. with them in power, than a lot of other places in the world.

mutter, mutter giving me flack grumble, grumble

-The Gneech

Comments

A Politcal Flack?

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I agree with your statements almost completely, even including the strict interpretation of the Constitution.

Not every politician is corrupt, but it happens with a regrettable regularity.

And I apologize if my previous comment seemed to be in the category of "giving you flack" -- I did not intend it thus.

===|==============/ Level Head

Re: A Politcal Flack?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Nope, wasn't you. :) Was some e-mail. -TG

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* Hope I'm not the cause of this... particularly since I talked it out with you.

But I'm still frightened by members of the Libertarian party on this side of three mountain ranges and a major river (most of them are closet anarchists). I'll do my best to bear in mind that you are not one of them.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Nope, wasn't you. :) Was some e-mail. -TG

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

At least three debate topics strike below our rational minds, into our lizard selves below: religion, politics, and sex. Expect flack whenever you write about any of them. Don't let that stop you.

On your last point...

[(Anonymous)]

Up here in Canada, MPs/MPPs are whipped (http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/democracy/partywhip.htm), and whipped (http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/parliamentary_reform.html) hard (http://report.ca/classics/12161996/p06i961216f.html); this is very different from your system, where HoR Reps/Senators have individal voting habits worth talking about. Your Senate isn't a mausoleum of has-been party loyalists hand-picked by the President, and your Supreme Court justices need more than Presidential anointment.

As for the Libertarians, some of them might become electable someday if the party is whacked enough times with a clue stick (http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianarticle1.html).

Jeff P.