I totally and completely agree with your comparison of whining vs dissent. Exactly what I'm thinking. What I meant was what I said, the people who get their panties in a wad and whine for 4 (or 8) years about he's not President... but don't do a damn thing other than bitch on their LJ about it. SHUT UP (not you)!
If you don't like a policy, change it! Work toward it at least! When I was in SD, I was actively involved in the groups that were working toward making SD a homebirth legal state and making SD the first state to outlaw abortion. I'm sure the latter will piss off people here, but so what, I'm feeling bold =) It's something that was/is extremely important to me, and so I worked toward it as I could. I'm like that with all of life, though - an example was someone in the celiac community the other day mentioning that she thought she was being glutened by a product from a company that really strives to make good gf products. I suggested she contact them - write or call or email - and her response was, "I don't see what good that's going to do." Well, it might not do any good, but you can be certain that just chatting with your LJ friends really won't do any good. Why not take the chance and email them or call them? Maybe something happened there on the assembly line that they don't know about and something got contaminated - try and make things better for yourself and others by at least letting them know. It's not going to change the world, but it might make someone's life a little better.
As for McCain - I don't support his view of the war, and I'm pretty sure we'd just be electing Bush back into office in another body. I admit that I voted for Bush - I think he turned out to be someone totally different than he appeared before elections. I think the current Republican in office and the candidate are too involved in getting government involved in every aspect of our lives - I liked how RP supported homeschooling and minimizing legislation with that. There are a few other things, but I have a feeling I've carried on enough.
Regardless, my main point with the first response to your post was that, if Obama is elected, then I won't necessarily agree with MY President - but that should never give anyone the right to start throwing around the racial insults and fear mongering about him being Muslim (which he isn't - and even if he were it wouldn't mean he was an Islamic terrorist - 99.9% of other Muslims aren't).
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Date: 2008-06-14 10:09 pm (UTC)If you don't like a policy, change it! Work toward it at least! When I was in SD, I was actively involved in the groups that were working toward making SD a homebirth legal state and making SD the first state to outlaw abortion. I'm sure the latter will piss off people here, but so what, I'm feeling bold =) It's something that was/is extremely important to me, and so I worked toward it as I could. I'm like that with all of life, though - an example was someone in the celiac community the other day mentioning that she thought she was being glutened by a product from a company that really strives to make good gf products. I suggested she contact them - write or call or email - and her response was, "I don't see what good that's going to do." Well, it might not do any good, but you can be certain that just chatting with your LJ friends really won't do any good. Why not take the chance and email them or call them? Maybe something happened there on the assembly line that they don't know about and something got contaminated - try and make things better for yourself and others by at least letting them know. It's not going to change the world, but it might make someone's life a little better.
As for McCain - I don't support his view of the war, and I'm pretty sure we'd just be electing Bush back into office in another body. I admit that I voted for Bush - I think he turned out to be someone totally different than he appeared before elections. I think the current Republican in office and the candidate are too involved in getting government involved in every aspect of our lives - I liked how RP supported homeschooling and minimizing legislation with that. There are a few other things, but I have a feeling I've carried on enough.
Regardless, my main point with the first response to your post was that, if Obama is elected, then I won't necessarily agree with MY President - but that should never give anyone the right to start throwing around the racial insults and fear mongering about him being Muslim (which he isn't - and even if he were it wouldn't mean he was an Islamic terrorist - 99.9% of other Muslims aren't).