tschu Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 #conservativechristianfamilyvalues Link to comment
carlfense Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 #conservativechristianfamilyvalues I saw it as more optimistic . . . in that I'm sort of surprised that they won majority votes. Link to comment
sd'sker Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 incredible to see how people have shifted on a lot of these issues. death penalty is stupid because it is morally wrong, but if you do not care about that, it is not cost-effective. expanding medicaid is a no-brainer unless you have national political aspirations and want to say, "i hurt my state to prove what an ideologue i am!" and the gay rights bill is impressive in that just 10 years ago, you could not even imagine such a bill. now it gets majority support. seems like a lot of these issues, people are just over having them be politicized. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 incredible to see how people have shifted on a lot of these issues. death penalty is stupid because it is morally wrong, but if you do not care about that, it is not cost-effective. expanding medicaid is a no-brainer unless you have national political aspirations and want to say, "i hurt my state to prove what an ideologue i am!" and the gay rights bill is impressive in that just 10 years ago, you could not even imagine such a bill. now it gets majority support. seems like a lot of these issues, people are just over having them be politicized. That statement holds a lot of truth. I wish there were lots more in that category. Link to comment
krill Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 It doesn't seem coincidental that the states with the least population to govern have the most perceived trust, and I suspect that money in politics has a lot to do with that. Money has always been a weapon to poison the operation of normal democratic process or otherwise distort the notion of majority rule. In that regard, I also suspect that the recent scotus decision to allow donations to an unlimited number of persons will have a staggeringly negative effect on the state and local level. Link to comment
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