and here we go
Jul. 1st, 2005 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sandra Day O'Connor has just announced her retirement from the Supreme Court.
You think post-2000 politics and discourse have been ugly? I think we have no idea how much more ugly they're about to get.
You think post-2000 politics and discourse have been ugly? I think we have no idea how much more ugly they're about to get.
I think I ma quite worried.
Date: 2005-07-01 03:04 pm (UTC)So much for freedom.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:27 pm (UTC)I just hope it gets better when he's gone, other wise the idea of us being a "free" country will have to be rewritten.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:53 pm (UTC)I just don't know how to reach these people and help them see what they don't want to see. If they did, I'm sure that they'd change their minds for the 2006 elections.
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:01 pm (UTC)I actually heard a parent talking about an incident with their child in school where they are no longer being corrected in spelling. They're just allowed to spell words any old way they want to. The
explanationexcuse was that it would be bad for the child's self-esteem to correct them.I don't remember any of my teachers worrying about my self-esteem to such an extent that they wouldn't correct my spelling...
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 04:10 pm (UTC)Hmmm... sickening, isn't it?
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 04:11 pm (UTC)As for education, personally I think that we have done a grave disservice to every child currently in the system by allowing politics to interfere with the basic job of education. If I ever choose to have children, they will go to school, but they will also be taught at home, I refuse to encourage the ignorance that is being and American child in this era.
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:39 pm (UTC)The reality is that we no longer have real elections. When 80% of the central tabulators in the country are run by two brothers with sketchy backgrounds and strong conservative leanings, and the exit polls don't match the final results, and none of the explanations for why they don't match make sense, something is wrong. When the head of elections in Ohio is allowed to ignore protocol and hand select which precincts to audit, and no one complains, something is wrong. When Democrats pick up seats and gain ground at the local level, but are dominated at the national levels of the same ticket, something is wrong. We no longer live in a democracy; we live in the illusion of democracy.
This is the reality no one is willing to see. Which makes other head-in-the-sand comments kind of ironic.
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Date: 2005-07-01 05:33 pm (UTC)Again - head in the sand.
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Date: 2005-07-01 05:55 pm (UTC)All you have to do is look at the history of Chuck Hagel, frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2008. I mean, gimme a break. I think my favorite anomoly is the counter to the "chatty dems" theory -- the exit polls were explained as Democrats being more willing to talk to pollsters...but one of the freaking questions was "who did you vote for in 2000?"...and Bush answers beat Gore answers by 6 points. Sample bias my ass.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 05:20 pm (UTC)How utterly depressing.
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Date: 2005-07-02 02:42 am (UTC)Combine the recent land seizure decision, with the possibility of a RvW overturn - I mean it could be the spark that sets us towards a serious civil situation.