tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607122.post109975317106998093..comments2024-03-29T03:27:21.346-04:00Comments on Minor American: Things to be cherished like the thought of heavenMinor Americanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11479733049496723149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607122.post-1099783589981774012004-11-06T18:26:00.000-05:002004-11-06T18:26:00.000-05:00Ange,
I have to say I think Creationism and all th...Ange,<br />I have to say I think Creationism and all the other Christian stuff is pernicious. I don't think I could openly respect a fundamentalist view even for the sake of peace. But what the numbers show is that there is a very large minority in the red states that have more sense than that. And there's an interesting op-ed piece in The Times today that says the numbers show that the moral issues didn't have that much to do with the victory. Sometimes I think that this administration's popularity amounts to nothing but the fact that so many people think that W is just like them.<br /><br />-- MaggieMinor Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11479733049496723149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607122.post-1099772477568719692004-11-06T15:21:00.000-05:002004-11-06T15:21:00.000-05:00Dear Ange & Maggie
Discovered "minor american" jus...Dear Ange & Maggie<br />Discovered "minor american" just recently by following a link to another link and then...here i am. And thank you. I've been inspired to get my hands on "Desires of Mothers..." & hope for a slice of time, soon, to read it.<br />As for the post-election blues: got them big time. And what depresses me even more is that out of my several relatives in Ohio who voted, only two of them voted for Kerry. And the others bought into the "moral values" crap. Having lived my whole life in California (O.K., 2 years in Iowa City while my husband was in grad school...but that's a pretty liberal island w/in Iowa) i think sometimes i forget that there are vast portions of the country who hate/fear anyone or anything outside of their narrow white-christian universe. I was so excited when my friends Jess & Gwen got married at City Hall in SF in February, I really thought maybe this is a turning point in the culture, that it could spark something larger...and as we know now, it did. A backlash of epic proportion.<br />I have to admit i am a bit annoyed by a lot of the "well i'm leaving the country now" talk... gee, that would be nice but those of us w/low paying jobs/children/no trust fund, really, that isn't an option. So now what? Shall all us liberals move to swing states by 2008 to sway the next election? Would it even be enough??<br />Feeling like an endangered species,<br />khXANTIPPEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04270999649948737822noreply@blogger.com