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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
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Politics
You may notice when reading this blog that there are more criticisms of Republican/Conservative politicians and supporters than Democrats/Liberals. Although my personal political beliefs definitely skew towards liberal, with significant touches of hardcore capitalism (I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science) and a dash of libertarian for flavoring, this blog is not intended to be a political blog. Far from it - with the exception of this sentence, you will never read "Obama is not a citizen" nor "GW is the Anti-christ", even if I believed either of those ridiculous statements (President Obama was born in Hawaii, and Ex-President Bush cannot be the Anti-christ, just as he cannot be Zaphod Beeblebrox or Harry Potter).
I think the reason for seeing more comments relating to the Far Right is due to the marriage/collusion of the GOP and the Religious Right starting with Ronald Reagan and the (COUGH) Moral Majority, and continuing through today. For example, a GOP candidate for governor in Alabama recently caught a lot of flak for daring to state that some of the Bible may be allegory. To save his candidacy, he had to change his tune on bible literalism (see
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/01/12/gubernatorial-candidate-bradley-byrne-believes-in-the-bible-really/ and http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/running-for-governor-in-alabama.html). Would I be less critical of a Democratic candidate who made the same statements as Bradley Byrne? Absolutely not. Both would need to go back to school to learn a little history and science (but not in Texas... http://rawstory.com/2010/01/conservatives-texas-education/).
Funny thing, though. Had any candidate made the statement that "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland) was the literal truth, they'd have been laughed out of the political arena.
I think the reason for seeing more comments relating to the Far Right is due to the marriage/collusion of the GOP and the Religious Right starting with Ronald Reagan and the (COUGH) Moral Majority, and continuing through today. For example, a GOP candidate for governor in Alabama recently caught a lot of flak for daring to state that some of the Bible may be allegory. To save his candidacy, he had to change his tune on bible literalism (see
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/01/12/gubernatorial-candidate-bradley-byrne-believes-in-the-bible-really/ and http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/running-for-governor-in-alabama.html). Would I be less critical of a Democratic candidate who made the same statements as Bradley Byrne? Absolutely not. Both would need to go back to school to learn a little history and science (but not in Texas... http://rawstory.com/2010/01/conservatives-texas-education/).
Funny thing, though. Had any candidate made the statement that "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland) was the literal truth, they'd have been laughed out of the political arena.
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