Rant Hat Firmly On

[omimouse]

Okay. For the record, I'm screaming here because it would be wrong to shake this person back and forth over which way they voted. The system doesn't work like that; you don't know how your neighbour voted for a reason.

However, I can scream about it in the (relative) privacy of my own journal. If you're the person I'm quoting, I'm doing this so that I can attempt a rational discussion with you. This is my vent-space. And I am actively seeking input from my friends list on this one. And in all due seriousness, and with no sarcasm whatsoever, thank you very, very much for actually going out and voting.


I am a pro-choice, pro-gun, pro-gay rights, Pagan female.

And I voted for Bush

What the fucking fuck?!? So you voted for someone who is doing his level best to strip women of their right to have an abortion, thinks that gays shouldn't even be allowed to have sex, let alone legally join their lives together, and does not consider Wicca to be a valid religion?!

Excuse me, but my brain just hardlocked. This makes absolutely no fucking sense. What that hell have you been smoking in circle for the past four years, and may I please have some of it, as it sounds like it's really good shit. On second thought, never mind. If that's what it does do a person's brain, then while it might make the next four years relatively painless for me, I'd really hate to wake up one morning and have my brain run out through my ear canal.

Folks that are pro-life, or against gay marriage, while I seriously disagree with them, I can understand why they'd vote for Bush. Hearing someone who's self-proclaimed pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and Pagan saying that they voted for Bush is almost like a Hindu firing up his backyard grill and throwing half a fucking cow onto the coals.

What is this, political masochism?

Can anybody explain this to me? Or have I just run into someone who's pretending to be all of the above, so she can pull a Zel Miller?

Comments

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Well, if the above person is a female then I doubt you should address her as sie...
But getting to the meat of it: a lot of people voted for Bush based on a very few things:
1) Religion. They like his. Obviously I doubt this is the case with her.
2) Taxes. She might think her tax monies would be lower under Bush than under anybody else.
3) Guns. She might think Bush is more in favor of her having guns. Heck, she said she's pro-gun.
4) Terror. She might think that Bush would do better at it, because Kerry's record on terror (insanely good) was rarely touched upon in the press.

My bet is 4 with a side of 3 and maybe a dash of 2 for flavor, or maybe skip the 2..

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

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Oops. Long held habits are hard to break; I don't know her, so I slipped into the default of sie.

I'm gonna go fix that now. Thanks for the catch.

Okay, so she probably thinks that Bush will let her keep her guns and that he'll be tougher on terrorists than Kerry.

Most of my mental hardlock stems from the fact that I fit the exact same descriptor that she used for herself. And yet our worldviews aren't just different, they're almost radically opposed to each other.

I'm looking at becoming active on the grassroots level over the next few months. I'm trying to figure out how one goes about convincing people to join a particular bandwagon. Without being annoying or in-your-face about it.