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[veronica_rich]

Um ... how fucking self-defeating can you be?

Seriously ... your female candidate loses, so instead of getting over it and voting for the next best thing being offered in this particular election to what you wanted, you're going for the senile white guy who wants to stay at war for 100 years, and privatize Social Security (among other things not desirable for minorities or people who earn under $200K a year, I assure you)?

A vote for McCain is a third term for Bush. Your choice. Pass it on.

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[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

Heard an NPR report this evening where they interviewed 3 "radical" Hillary supporters, emphasis mine. All 3 claimed they would be voting for McCain in November.

I don't know if the NPR report meant to reveal these people as idiots or not, maybe that's why they featured 3 with the same ignorant viewpoint. It didn't sound like they knew a damn thing about what Obama's platform/plans are, they were just pissed off. There were 2 women and one man, believe it or not. The man believed Obama was going to overtax businesses, of all things. Let's start with the oil companies, shall we? Christ on a trike.

The whole feminism thing has me stymied. So it's unfeminist if you vote for Obama since you can't vote for Hillary, WTF??? Sounds like it's just a fucking excuse to hide the real reason, racism.

There is a part of white middle class America which harbors racial bias. I do not mean the rednecks in Appalachia, I mean middle and upper class COLLEGE educated WHITE Americans. I know a few. They usually drive SUVs and wear designer clothes/suits; are members of the golf club, yacht club, boat club, you-name-it-club. They like to think they are liberal, because they want their individual rights, but when it boils down to it, they are neocons.

I would love to know the demographics of the Hillary supporters/Obama haters. I bet most fall in those above descriptions. They didn't learn anything in college because they were too busy with the frat party/sorority bash scene. When I was in college no one talked about it, but it was widely known that most frats and sororities didn't let in black people. Which is why they haven't bothered to know what Obama wants to do for America; they only supported Hillary because all their friends did. And the women can now call themselves feminists because they supported her, even though a lot of them only work to pay for daycare or get out of the house.

I'll laugh my ass off if Obama does decide to pick Hillary for Veep.
Those people are going to either eat their words then, or be voting for a black man.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You know, I really try not to think about this particular aspect. Not because I wish to remain willingly ignorant, but because it's too depressing to believe some melatonin *matters* in an age of science and technology.

Though, I heard something on NPR this morning about how it seems in the times of greatest technological advances, that cultural attitudes backslide - almost like people are incapable of rapidly advancing in both, so they have to choose one or the other. The woman used the "Dark Ages" as an example and pointed out how many technological inventions were coming into play all at the same time, and commented we may be seen as another "dark age" off in the future someday for the same reasons.

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

My take on this is that instead of making all these handy little gadgets better (ie, new and improved Iphone), how about we work on making human beings better. Not better in terms of health, but better in terms of, hey, let's actually treat one another with respect and humility and do right by one another and try to be less fucking greedy. Until we learn to do all those things, mankind is not really advancing at all.

Gene Roddenbery's vision for mankind is very very science fiction indeed.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

His vision was definitely way too early - I don't think humans will be rid of the warring and capitalist instinct in 400 years. *Maybe* 4,000 if they manage to hang on that long as a species.