More politics: comments on the Free Press (skip if you're done with politics)

[eisoj5]

http://www.freep.com/news/politics/riley4e_20041104.htm

Arrrrrgh.

What I most definitely do NOT want to see is the Democrats moving away from their secular base! I don't want to see them privileging the 'moral values' of one religion over another just because the middle of America happens to be solidly Christian. That, IMO, is not progress. Progress is not turning over your own beliefs just so you can be more popular. Don't they teach that in school? Just because everybody went and jumped off the bridge...

"In a world where a filthy, violent video game is the best selling in history and teenage girls dress like prostitutes, moral values are making a comeback."

I bet the kids of the people who voted for 'moral values' play GTA. I bet their parents even bought the game for them. I don't like this quote. It strikes me as representing the 'moral values' of the left as violent and sexual.

Susan Ager says it better than I could in another column on the Free Press.

"We have two choices:

To concede the nation to those who believe their way is God's way.

Or to speak more openly about our own moral values: justice, equality, honesty, diversity, consensus-building. Those values include giving more help to the weak, poor and afraid and granting fewer privileges to the excessively comfortable."

(By the way, can we define "mandate" again? I'm not sure I know exactly what it means, now.)

Comments

[acornx.livejournal.com]

I think a look at the actual numerical outcome of the election rather than crappy exit polls (that also predicted a Kerry win, mind you) would benefit the democrats greatly.

They lost swing voters.
Why?
As a swing voter, I have several opinions on the subject that I'll post about eventually, but extremism has divided the nation. It's the moderates/swing voters that really counted, as it was in the last election, and the democratic party needs to learn that or they're in for another loss in four years.