endorsement
Nov. 4th, 2012 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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pickledginger, an essay which does a pretty good job simmering down reasons to vote for not only Obama, but for legislative Democrats, this go-round. One passage I would like to point to, because it's the excuse I hear all the time for disenfranchised Republicans who can't quite make the leap to actively voting for The Other Guy (and I can sympathize to a point, but not as far as those who say it to me would like me to, I'm sure), but also because it feels like Scalzi peeked into my brain:
Its economic policies are charitably described as nonsense and its social policies are vicious; for a party which parades its association with Jesus around like a fetish, it is notably lacking in the simple compassion of the Christ. There is so little I find good or useful in the current national GOP, intellectually, philosophically or politically, that I genuinely look on it with despair and wonder when or if the grown-ups are ever going to come back to it. Before anyone leaps up to say that the modern Democratic Party has problems of its own, know that I do not disagree. But if your practical choices for governance of the country are between the marginally competent and the actively malicious, you go with the marginally competent.
Also, because instead of donating to any campaign this October, I divided it between a couple of relief organizations (people aren't the only victims of Sandy; think of the companion animals who had no place to go), and I think while either party would be disappointed not to get that money toward their war chest, my feeling is the Democrats would be more philosophical about it (and possibly Gov. Christie).
There will be no comments section on this post. I think it's too close and too late to get into debates. All I'll ask is this: Don't vote thinking only of yourself ... pick the person for each office you think will be best for the country, for your state (if I were still living in my former state of residence, I actually can think of a Republican I would vote for in a particular race because he always proved to be concerned for his district).
pickledginger, an essay which does a pretty good job simmering down reasons to vote for not only Obama, but for legislative Democrats, this go-round. One passage I would like to point to, because it's the excuse I hear all the time for disenfranchised Republicans who can't quite make the leap to actively voting for The Other Guy (and I can sympathize to a point, but not as far as those who say it to me would like me to, I'm sure), but also because it feels like Scalzi peeked into my brain:Its economic policies are charitably described as nonsense and its social policies are vicious; for a party which parades its association with Jesus around like a fetish, it is notably lacking in the simple compassion of the Christ. There is so little I find good or useful in the current national GOP, intellectually, philosophically or politically, that I genuinely look on it with despair and wonder when or if the grown-ups are ever going to come back to it. Before anyone leaps up to say that the modern Democratic Party has problems of its own, know that I do not disagree. But if your practical choices for governance of the country are between the marginally competent and the actively malicious, you go with the marginally competent.
Also, because instead of donating to any campaign this October, I divided it between a couple of relief organizations (people aren't the only victims of Sandy; think of the companion animals who had no place to go), and I think while either party would be disappointed not to get that money toward their war chest, my feeling is the Democrats would be more philosophical about it (and possibly Gov. Christie).
There will be no comments section on this post. I think it's too close and too late to get into debates. All I'll ask is this: Don't vote thinking only of yourself ... pick the person for each office you think will be best for the country, for your state (if I were still living in my former state of residence, I actually can think of a Republican I would vote for in a particular race because he always proved to be concerned for his district).
