Vote for Change.
Nov. 4th, 2008 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
islandofwordsI knew about Proposition 8 in California, but I just recently learned about Proposition 2 in Florida, and I find them both absolutely disgusting. If you don't know, both are to "ban gay marriage" except what they really do is take civil rights away from ALL unmarried couples, same-sex or not. If passed, people would have to hire private lawyers to retain things like their health care and visitation rights, for both their children and each other in the hospital. It affects same sex domestic couples, and it affects business partners and it affect heterosexual couples.
Frankly, I am all for gay marriage, and it baffles me that people are not. What do you care if other people can get married? If you look at the divorce rates (I think it's up over 50% now, actually), obviously marriage doesn't mean much. Marriage is cheap in this country, and it's just becoming a farce, especially with these propositions.
It's not politics, and it's not protecting the sanctity of marriage. It's fear tactics and lies and the religious right wing trying to force their nuclear family ideal on everyone, not just couples. This is the idea that all people should be married with two kids and a dog and the wife should stay home and cook and clean and the man should work and bring in the money. This is the desire to go back to 1952 oppression and stereotypes. This is people trying to take away civil rights because people without rights and without hope are easier to control.
No. Not this year, not this time, not this election. This is our time, and I hope the people in California and Florida understand the ramifications of the amendments. Being in Virginia, the only thing I can do is hope, and that kills me. I can tell people and educate them, but I can't really do anything about it.
It still baffles me that people support John McCain. Now, I can understand not supporting Obama necessarily because I understand that he doesn't have the experience and such. But John McCain has gone from a generally likable guy with decent politics and good decisions to an asshole prick with Karl Rove-style politics. The man picked Sarah Palin, a woman he didn't at all vet who's been immersed in scandal since day one. Troopergate, Troopergate II, TrigGate, WardrobeGate, MedicalGate... It doesn't end. She's been lying and covering things up since her first day as the GOP candidate for Vice President, and I don't understand how people could still want her in office. She doesn't even know what the VP does. Haven't we have enough of Bush's failed politics? Haven't we had enough of Cheney's abuse of VP power? The lies and the abuses need to end.
This election is our election. The GOP stole 2000 and 2004 out from under us, and we didn't fight hard enough for what was right. Things are different this year. This is the most important election of our lives, and what happens today will change the country, for better or for worse. In who's hands would you like to leave it? John McCain's? After his poor decisions and politics, I cannot in good conscience respect anyone who still supports McCain.
If you support Nader or Barr or a write-in, you have my utmost respect. If you support Obama, you've got the right idea. But McCain? You might as well just shoot yourself in the foot. Better do it now, because if McCain gets in office, you won't have the healthcare to treat it.
Obama '08. Change '08. Hope '08. Yes we can.
Love,
Brinn
Frankly, I am all for gay marriage, and it baffles me that people are not. What do you care if other people can get married? If you look at the divorce rates (I think it's up over 50% now, actually), obviously marriage doesn't mean much. Marriage is cheap in this country, and it's just becoming a farce, especially with these propositions.
It's not politics, and it's not protecting the sanctity of marriage. It's fear tactics and lies and the religious right wing trying to force their nuclear family ideal on everyone, not just couples. This is the idea that all people should be married with two kids and a dog and the wife should stay home and cook and clean and the man should work and bring in the money. This is the desire to go back to 1952 oppression and stereotypes. This is people trying to take away civil rights because people without rights and without hope are easier to control.
No. Not this year, not this time, not this election. This is our time, and I hope the people in California and Florida understand the ramifications of the amendments. Being in Virginia, the only thing I can do is hope, and that kills me. I can tell people and educate them, but I can't really do anything about it.
It still baffles me that people support John McCain. Now, I can understand not supporting Obama necessarily because I understand that he doesn't have the experience and such. But John McCain has gone from a generally likable guy with decent politics and good decisions to an asshole prick with Karl Rove-style politics. The man picked Sarah Palin, a woman he didn't at all vet who's been immersed in scandal since day one. Troopergate, Troopergate II, TrigGate, WardrobeGate, MedicalGate... It doesn't end. She's been lying and covering things up since her first day as the GOP candidate for Vice President, and I don't understand how people could still want her in office. She doesn't even know what the VP does. Haven't we have enough of Bush's failed politics? Haven't we had enough of Cheney's abuse of VP power? The lies and the abuses need to end.
This election is our election. The GOP stole 2000 and 2004 out from under us, and we didn't fight hard enough for what was right. Things are different this year. This is the most important election of our lives, and what happens today will change the country, for better or for worse. In who's hands would you like to leave it? John McCain's? After his poor decisions and politics, I cannot in good conscience respect anyone who still supports McCain.
If you support Nader or Barr or a write-in, you have my utmost respect. If you support Obama, you've got the right idea. But McCain? You might as well just shoot yourself in the foot. Better do it now, because if McCain gets in office, you won't have the healthcare to treat it.
Obama '08. Change '08. Hope '08. Yes we can.
Love,
Brinn
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Date: 2008-11-04 10:02 pm (UTC)And every election is billed as the most important election of our lives.
And, whatever your opinion of McCain's politics, McCain fought and served honorably, even going so far as to distinguish himself while a POW. That goes pretty far in a lot of people's books, especially now that a lot of people are demonizing our troops.
Hell, if McCain is elected and you want free healthcare, just do what I did. Healthcare is free for all military personnel. *L*