As vile as this election cycle has been, it has also been a
blessing. Through hundreds of Facebook and e-mail conversations in the last
year I’ve learned so much about what makes us all tick, and I want to thank all
those friends (and those who aren’t anymore J)
for the education they’ve provided me. It has been an adventure.
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November, always the toughest month, adds to its repertoire
of general gloom and threatening winter by entertaining elections. This
November will either make us or break us in ways no election has ever done
before, however, I don’t see us dealing with the issues at hand very
intelligently. For one thing pundits and politicians alike are analyzing the
American voter in misleading and unrealistic terms. They have us all divided up
into ridiculous groups of voters as if no individuals existed, as if America is
no longer a country of real, unique people, as if our gender and our skin color
somehow control the way we see this nation.
One true thing about human nature is that we work to make
order out of chaos (evidence that we were created in God’s image) by
categorizing ideas, things, people. “There are 2 kinds people: those who divide
people into 2 groups and those who don’t.” OK, often I’m one of the ones who
do, but I contend that very few folks avoid it altogether. And I contend that
dividing people into groups has nothing to do with race, gender, ethnicity, or
income. It has to do with temperament and worldview. The process tends to
produce more of a venn diagram than it does an outline – too many overlaps, but
this is how I’d arrange the voting blocks for this election:
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Me-voters – the hand-out people, the free
birth-control gals, the gay marriage voters, the abortion folk, the
pay-for-my-college people. Some
are just too young to know better, to understand that a government that will do
those things for you will not stay solvent for long, and will use people’s
dependence as an excuse to take their liberty. Me-voters are willing to part
with freedom and to take freedom from others in order to fulfill whatever
personal whims they harbor. Their ability to pursue a master’s degree in
Tunisian carpet weaving and a life of promiscuous sex without having to earn
the money to pay for either is more important than the safety of the nation, or
the prosperity of anyone else.
