Journal Planesdragon's Journal: Last Political Journal of the year 4
Today, November 9, is one week after the general elections in the United States of America. As such, it's a good time to cap off my thoughts and move on with life.
To everyone in the circle: if you're still fed up with the election after a week, I suggest that you contact the local branch of your favored party and see what you can do to help the process in '02 and '04. If you prefer a minority party, find out what their relation is to their closest majority party--and if there isn't a branch of your favorite party nearby, either start druming up support or pick the local party that's closest to what you want.
Those of you that are just glad that this is over--well, it's over. (Yay!) But y'all knew that. If you didn't vote, please register while it's still fresh in your mind. Everyone would like it if "don't care" didn't win the Popular vote again in 2008.
Some final words for both sides of our two-party system:
Republicans: Congradulations are certainly in order. Even though the election was closely split, you managed to hang on to or increase your influence in mandate. You've got two years of majority rule, which means that you've got two years to switch my affiliation to the right. All you need to do is prove that you really are guided by morality, and the way to do that is to show that reason and understanding, not grandstanding and demonizing, are the tools you will use. There is no need to mark our enemys as evil or cowardly or weak-willed; focus on their actions and their actions alone, and leave the judgement to the God that I share with so many of you.
Democrats: You lost. You had a grass-roots movement, a Presdent who misled the nation, and a stronger dissent than any wartime President in history. It's time for you to fix your party, and if that means letting Howard Dean and John Stewart turn everything inside out, let them. In 2002 I want to hear about understanding, liberty, and fiscal responsibility--I want to hear about the freedom that our Christian heritage shaped for us, not the freedom that protects us from "those Christians". I want to hear that wrong things are wrong, but that outlawing some of them would be worse.
(Oh, and for everyone out there that's not a Christian: please don't be offended. Religion shows us morality, but morality is greater than religion ever could be.)
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I don't want to be free from all Christians, I just want to be free from "those Christians" who think it's their mandate to enact their interpretation of Christian morality by law. That's the whole problem in a nutshell.
I don't want to be free of Christians generally, but I could cert