pet topics

my view of the democratic party is that we stand for the underdog and for public service, that the country isn’t better until everyone is doing better, not just you, not just me. we stand against corporate interests and for environmentally-friendly policies and for equality in the eyes of the law. we stand for the under-educated (so, no, we shouldn’t just write off people in the mid-west and mining towns as rednecks and be done with it; whether they know it or not, we stand for them too), the abused, the jobless, the homeless. we stand for a society were people can make informed decisions to improve their lives, where people can go to school if they work hard. i hate that the republicans have pushed us into a place where we largely have to position things in an “us versus them” mentality. “they” can’t see that “we” are working for them too, that when we improve things for “us”, that it’s not just the supporters of the democratic party that win, but everyone.

it seems simple enough to understand. sigh.

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christians, even evangelical christians, do NOT equal Republican/Bush supporters. white christians, yes. black christians, no. asian christians, no. i think also latino christians, no, but i’m not too sure (i know support has waned, at the very least). let’s not unfairly stick them under the same umbrella, because it’s not fair to, say, the black ministers that organized their congregations to march for civil rights to classify them in the same way as the people who used the bible against them to claim that blacks were inferior beings. some use religion as an excuse for bigotry, but some learn the right lessons of tolerance and non-judgment.

when you don’t have government representation, you look to community leaders, and many communities center around church activities. minority communities, which are heavily democratic and underrepresented, often have this type of leadership. let’s not alienate the people in the fight with us against this administration.

i should look up stats to support my assertion about minority christian groups.

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someone brought into work an atari system and three games. heh. i used to think “atari” was “artari”. i think i still accidentally say that a lot of the time.

i caved

i am giving in to the lobbying parties. i learned it by watching you, government! here you go: https://eingy.helava.com/feedme.xml.

2006

the time to start working for a democratic majority in 2006 is now.

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2006 reminds me of 2.006, which was the number for the thermo II class that i failed. let’s hope there is no curse.