Comment Re:Executive orders are not law in and of themselv (Score 1) 289
you sound right, but you are really wrong.
it IS about race, for republicans. down deep, they are the modern minority-haters and have been for decades, now. not forever, (things were reversed previous to that) but now, they are the poster boys of 'if you are not white, straight and christian, we're against you'.
no ideology anyone could have would create this much anger in a group of people - it HAS to be race. america never got right about how to deal with race issues and this pretty much proves it.
I find it cute that others deny this. its the (white) elephant in the room that the other side refuses to admit. and of course they won't admit it, to admit such a thing today is pretty much already on the wrong side of history.
the anti-gay trend in the red states is more proof of 'if you aint a christian you're not one of us and we will shun you' belief. again, pure republican minority hatred.
now, I totally dislike obama these days, but its because of how he turned his back on the liberal ideas and has become a push-over for the power brokers who control him and own him. he never did much good for the liberal cause (partly because he was blocked by the R's, but also because he really didn't TRY all that much. not sure if he was lying to us or just ignorant of how little control he'd have as president).
the R's always hated him, and the D's now hate him for betraying them and their principles. he's not going to be remembered well by history. too bad, there was a lot of potential there, but it was all misused.
perhaps this really is proof: no matter who you put in that office, the office will ruin them.
I do think its time to redo our whole system. if your code base is so old, so tangled, so full of exception code and has more exceptions than rules, its time to scrap it and start over. and yes, I'm arguing for a complete re-do of our laws, our government and it needs to come sooner rather than later if we are to salvage what is left of our once great country.