The teen-girl fetish accusations from decades ago don't really bother me. I can't imagine what bland weirdos we'd end up with in the Senate if everyone was held to an altar boy standard for their entire lives before we let them run for office. They certainly wouldn't be representative of our porn-soaked population.
What really bothers me is the anger and judgment against gays that comes from him. Waving a Bible around and then screaming at any group is disgusting to me. It's pretty hard to work your way through the Gospels and then nod your head at Roy Moore when he starts going off. Truth be told, I'd have a really hard time voting for him today. I couldn't vote for the pro-abortion dude, either. What's his name? Doug Jones? John Smith? Joe Everyman? Hey, he didn't have a thing for teens, vote for him! Don't look at that mountain of dead babies behind him, we'll clean that up as soon as we get the elevators to the crematoria working again.
Whatever.
Pulling back up to the 30,000 foot level, these guys are just voting robots. The odds that the (D) candidate wouldn't vote in 100% lockstep with his Party masters is practically zero. He doesn't look like he's had an original idea since he discovered Crayons came in boxes larger than 8. Meanwhile, Roy Moore will be a reliable vote for his party as well. He does have original ideas, but they're all bad.
So what is it we're fighting about? A voting robot. Great.
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| With indescribable horror, Alex realized that both candidates were following, intent on inflicting their hideous stump speeches upon him. |
I think you have just summed up the reason that our political party system is poisonous. It's like there are a set of controversial issues, and then each party randomly picks a side without any regard to whether the positions they pick actually have anything to do with each other. I don't see where there is any connection between one's position on, say, gun rights and on abortion, and neither of those has any fundamental connection to health care or taxation or whether to intervene in the affairs of other countries. But to be a "good republican" or a "good democrat", you've got to be, as you said, a voting robot either swallows the whole pill of the party platform, or spits it out and goes to the other party.
ReplyDeleteI hate that. I do not fully agree or disagree with either party, both of them have some positions that I agree with, some that I disagree with, some that I can't imagine why they even think they are important, and some where they are ignoring things that I think are crucial. I would dearly love to find some way that people could run for office based on what they personally think is right, and forget the damned parties, but I don't know how the independents can overcome the advantage in money, organization, experience in running elections, and election rules that were specifically designed to favor the two parties.
I don't see where there is any connection between one's position on, say, gun rights and on abortion, and neither of those has any fundamental connection to health care or taxation or whether to intervene in the affairs of other countries.
ReplyDeleteAmen!
I know they're not robots, but a Kodos and Kang picture would have been more fun :-)
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