Hooray! I'm not alone as a moderate Catholic who feels disenfranchised by the two-headed monster in Washington. This bit sums things up quite nicely:
"…by the time I was an adult, the Democratic Party had begun to shift its primary focus away from meat-and-potatoes issues of social justice, to Big Government support of an increasingly un-mainstream ideological platform that had more to do with social engineering than with social justice. This shift was epitomized, of course, by the Democratic Party's fierce embrace of pro-choice feminism, with all its attendant pieties, from gay marriage to abortion-on-demand, from surrogate parenting to stem-cell harvesting to Orwellian bans on "hate speech."
But I knew I could never be at home in the Republican Party, either. Although ostensibly pro-life, the GOP has remained, as ever, the party in the pocket of Corporate America. (And the bigger the corporation the bigger the pocket, not to mention, pocketbook.) Sure, the Republicans toss us pro-lifers a tasty morsel now and then. I rejoiced mightily when Bush signed the ban on partial-birth abortions; but as an increasingly convinced supporter of small-is-beautiful Catholic social teaching, I remain haunted by Eisenhower's prophecy about the Military-Industrial Complex, for which Dick Cheney could serve as poster boy. There was nothing for this ex-Democrat, non-Republican to do, in our lesser-of-two-evils bi-partisan mess of a political system, but turn (gag) Independent."
Funky Dung
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That was a perfectly valid argument four years ago. But it is not 2000 anymore. The situation has changed profoundly.
Our nation is under assault. Our economy, our security, our liberty and even our democracy have been undermined. These are dark times and they force hard decisions upon us. We have a duty to our nation. We must preserve it. This is not a time to quietly analyze the particular issues that candidates support. We must realize the danger we are in, and unite to defend ourselves against it.
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Posted 25 Aug 2004 at 2:19 am ¶For the benefit of my readers, perhaps you should expound upon what one must do to "realize the danger we are in, and unite to defend ourselves against it."
To say that "[t]his is not a time to quietly analyze the particular issues that candidates support", implies that one should eshew ratiocination as imprudent and instead blindly follow the hyberbolic rhetoric and propaganda of one party or the other.
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Posted 25 Aug 2004 at 2:50 am ¶Gee, John, you sound like W there.
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