2 posts tagged “politics”
8. Q: Even more so, when someone "Would never do abortion themselves" but is "pro-choice" it doesn't make sense to me. Explain it.
A: Okay, I’ll sound of on this one. Just because President Elect Obama would never choose to commit to an abortion in his family, that doesn’t mean he can’t support the idea of there being a choice. Once again, having the ability to choose is the American way.
9. Q: When people think that genocide is wrong, but don't think we should try and stop it when it is within our power, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: Where the hell did this come from? When making political points, remember to make them clear and understandable, especially when you want someone to explain it to you.
10. Q: When people say we need alternative energy, but are opposed to nuclear energy, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: Where nuclear power doesn’t have a direct impact on the environment while producing energy, it has serious dangers involved. Before jumping head first into thinking it’s our saving grace, please go back and re-read history in regards to 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl. Compound that with storing of the spent fuel rods inside of a mountain in the Sierra-Nevada range and transportation to get it there, you have a possibility for an ecological crisis the likes of which are only seen in video games.
11. Q: When you talk about running out of oil, but we have many, many years worth ON OUR OWN SOIL that you won't let us drill, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: President Elect Obama never said he was opposed to drilling in the US. If you were to actually read his plan, you would see that he does want to drill, but the impact on the environment dictates where we will and will not drill. Would you say that it’s okay to drill in an area that depends on salmon fishing when it’s a decent likely hood that building a rig there would have adverse effects on that eco-system and possibly irrevocably influence the ability to fish? On top of that, it would take over 10 years for the country to see any kind of positive benefit from drilling locally. We need a stop-gap solution now just to get us out of the fuel crisis we’re in, but we need a long term so that we can wean ourselves off of oil, not just foreign oil, completely.
Regardless of how many times you’ve been told ‘how smart’ you are, if you don’t do the research and come up with open-minded, educated, informed decisions on your own, you will never grasp the concepts on which both party’s platforms where built. A friend of mine was a McCain supporter until he got under the hood and actually looked at the plans and did the research. He then discovered that Obama’s plan had a much higher likely hood of getting us out of our economic flat-spin, and restoring the wealth and reputation of the country. McCain’s plan was almost certain to just continue the downward spiral, and we’d be even more hosed than we are now.
Where I do believe in God, I don’t think trying to intermingle strict religious beliefs with political topics works. The best thing one can do is to take the base of all religion, which is a reasonable code of ethics, and apply them to making decisions. We all have an idea of what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. The world is not binary; it’s an infinite number of shades of grey.
On a final religious note, there are only two rules in Christianity that we need to remember. Rule one is the same as first commandment. The second rule takes the other 9 commandments and sums it up as the Golden Rule – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” So, I know of no place in those two statements that has issues with gays, or whatever other sociological groups you think should not have rights equal to the rest of us red-blooded Americans.
You let, what I perceive to be, narrow-minded, church influenced, arcane, draconian ideas influence you beyond that of objective reasoning. The whole idea of America was to be a place that people of all races, beliefs, ideals, orientations, etc. could come and act as one unified group. Anyone that tries to segregate the union (the reference to northern Virginia not being ‘real’ Virginia just to name one) has lost the concept of unity. You can’t divide the country and then say, “Now, play nice,” afterwards. Unity is something that is worked on from the beginning.
If it takes you thinking that everything unfolded according to God’s divine plan to be a part of the union as whole, I’m all for it. The fact that you can say that you can respect President Elect Obama and Vice President Elect Biden for unifying the country and winning the election says a lot about your character. What you can do now to continue to make your voice heard is to speak to your senators and representatives as bills come to be voted on. Just because the presidential race is over doesn’t mean that we, as the people of the United States, are now silenced. I only ask that you approach the topics objectively and make sure that you have assimilated all the information possible in regards to the topic. An ill-informed vote is worse, in my opinion, than no vote at all.
