A long quote.
Nov. 3rd, 2004 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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autumnyte said it best. I'll copy her here, as she's saved me so much trouble:
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I don't know how to even live in this country right now. I just cannot wrap my brain around the religiosity that seems to have permeated the majority. How can people have been flat-out lied to for four years and say "four more please!"? WTF? The economy is still in the toilet from where I'm sitting. There's no plan for Iraq. Ugh.
Back when Bush took the presidency in 2000, I'll confess that I thought that the rants about how horrible things would be were an overreaction. Not this time. Bush was much worse than I ever thought he'd be. We've got a Republican House, Senate, White House and there will be at least two conservative judges appointed to the Supreme Court. This time, the administration doesn't even have to worry about re-election.
Things in this country that I remain convinced are going to hell in a handbasket:
-The Environment: Bush's environmental record has been poor, and no one in this country even seems to give a damn about the environment. Corporations will be allowed to continue "self-regulation" and things will only get worse.
-Women's rights: And by this I don't just mean Roe V. Wade, though I'm convinced that will be overturned during Bush's tenure. I also mean the right to family planning, to birth control. With abstinence only education, young women will have less knowledge of and access to birth control methods. With Bush's faith-based initiatives, in order to get a low cost insurance plan, government employees currently have to go through a Catholic insurance provider. Under this provider, birth control, vasectomy and tubal ligation is no longer covered. And Bush wants to extend this plan so that citizens can buy into it. No thank you.
-Gay rights: I hope I'm wrong, but given what happened across ten states yesterday, and given that the evangelical Christians are some of Bush's base, I don't hold out any hope that the government will intervene in a number of states depriving gay people of basic human rights. And I don't want to hear anything about states rights. It wasn't right during racial segregation, it isn't right now.
-Separation of Church and State - This is the scariest of all, IMHO, and encompasses everything I've mentioned above. I have never in my lifetime felt that someone else's religion and morals were being forced onto me. I can't believe this is America.
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autumnyte said it best. I'll copy her here, as she's saved me so much trouble::::::::::::::
I don't know how to even live in this country right now. I just cannot wrap my brain around the religiosity that seems to have permeated the majority. How can people have been flat-out lied to for four years and say "four more please!"? WTF? The economy is still in the toilet from where I'm sitting. There's no plan for Iraq. Ugh.
Back when Bush took the presidency in 2000, I'll confess that I thought that the rants about how horrible things would be were an overreaction. Not this time. Bush was much worse than I ever thought he'd be. We've got a Republican House, Senate, White House and there will be at least two conservative judges appointed to the Supreme Court. This time, the administration doesn't even have to worry about re-election.
Things in this country that I remain convinced are going to hell in a handbasket:
-The Environment: Bush's environmental record has been poor, and no one in this country even seems to give a damn about the environment. Corporations will be allowed to continue "self-regulation" and things will only get worse.
-Women's rights: And by this I don't just mean Roe V. Wade, though I'm convinced that will be overturned during Bush's tenure. I also mean the right to family planning, to birth control. With abstinence only education, young women will have less knowledge of and access to birth control methods. With Bush's faith-based initiatives, in order to get a low cost insurance plan, government employees currently have to go through a Catholic insurance provider. Under this provider, birth control, vasectomy and tubal ligation is no longer covered. And Bush wants to extend this plan so that citizens can buy into it. No thank you.
-Gay rights: I hope I'm wrong, but given what happened across ten states yesterday, and given that the evangelical Christians are some of Bush's base, I don't hold out any hope that the government will intervene in a number of states depriving gay people of basic human rights. And I don't want to hear anything about states rights. It wasn't right during racial segregation, it isn't right now.
-Separation of Church and State - This is the scariest of all, IMHO, and encompasses everything I've mentioned above. I have never in my lifetime felt that someone else's religion and morals were being forced onto me. I can't believe this is America.
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