Posted by AuntieMel on November 12, 2004, at 12:15:38
In reply to Re: not majority rule » AuntieMel, posted by MKB on November 11, 2004, at 16:40:32
I'm not trying to argue here.
Granted I didn't vote for Bush, but I'm really not talking about the election per se. It happened, Bush won, and now it is time to make the best of what we got and make plans for the future.
The majority voted for hime to be our representative, and that is how the system works and I'm ok with it.
As an aside, unrelated to the rest of the conversation, I do believe that there were pockets of election irregularities, but not enough to affect the outcome. I do have to grudgingly admit it was quite clever of Rove to get the gay marriage thing on the ballots of a lot of swing states - it got their base moving to vote. Slick move. I wish we'd thought about something like that :)
I am not talking about rights being trampled by the election. I'm talking more about those on the fringe right *thinking* that they now have the right to anything they want. The Tom Delays and such. The article was just an example of how some on that fringe think. No more, no less.
The court concerns me, not only because Bush and buds have said that they will use the court to pay back the "religious right" whatever the heck that is. I am mostly concerned because one party (note that I would have the same concern if it was the other party) controls the White House *and* the congress. I believe that these positions are of huge import and the vetting process should be thorough. I am hoping we don't get another Thomas, and I would be thrilled if we were to get another Souter or O'Connor. Both of them are thoughful and consider the law, without letting politics influence them.
Now, that was my thinking process from a distance. What I firmly believe is that *all* on the fringes, either side, should start thinking about respecting others and try to see things from their viewpoint. The thing should differentiate us from the rest of the world is tolerance of others.
What good is being the world's only superpower if we don't use it for the good of all?
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