I'd say Us vs Them is much more human than political; but I would assert that conservative movments explicitly utilize it far more often. The nationalist movemnts that sweapt the world post cold war, as an example. I do not that I do have a personal blind spot for economic 'class warfare' -b ut then my faith on our overall socioeconomic system is not so great; I have a great suspicion that a few weeks a of living on minimum wage would change the tune of a number of your conservative friends...
The link was meant to highlight the scaremongering attitude of ShrubCo, not to really address their use of the gay marriage issue. Overall, I agree that the gay marriage thing wasn't a huge issue overall, but it was just enough of an incendiary, when applied in just the right places. Over and over, post election coverage pointed to the large evangelical vote that Shrub rode in on- that they would have voted for him anyways is without question, but in such numbers without prodding, is very doubtful.
Small things really do make the difference these days, ya know: if Tom Delay hadn't bought himself a pliant and Republican Texas Legislature, he'd not have gotten his special redistricting package passed, and there'd be 5 more Democratic seats in the House.
Schwarzenager, i call.. hurrr. He makes me itch, but not for being republican. In two crucial aspects, he fails my middle of the road test- the first being that he's still more of an actor than a politition. And the base hypocracy of demanding full open reform, while still showing a penchant for back room deals and special interest largess- in too many uncomfortable ways, he comes off being bought and owned nature of other famous republican figureheads like Reagan and Shrub. If his intial election hadn't been so politically based, i probably would have voted for him, but now... we'll see come next election.
Small quiblings- but he's still more actor than politition...
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Date: 2005-08-12 06:44 pm (UTC)The link was meant to highlight the scaremongering attitude of ShrubCo, not to really address their use of the gay marriage issue. Overall, I agree that the gay marriage thing wasn't a huge issue overall, but it was just enough of an incendiary, when applied in just the right places. Over and over, post election coverage pointed to the large evangelical vote that Shrub rode in on- that they would have voted for him anyways is without question, but in such numbers without prodding, is very doubtful.
Small things really do make the difference these days, ya know: if Tom Delay hadn't bought himself a pliant and Republican Texas Legislature, he'd not have gotten his special redistricting package passed, and there'd be 5 more Democratic seats in the House.
Schwarzenager, i call.. hurrr. He makes me itch, but not for being republican. In two crucial aspects, he fails my middle of the road test- the first being that he's still more of an actor than a politition. And the base hypocracy of demanding full open reform, while still showing a penchant for back room deals and special interest largess- in too many uncomfortable ways, he comes off being bought and owned nature of other famous republican figureheads like Reagan and Shrub. If his intial election hadn't been so politically based, i probably would have voted for him, but now... we'll see come next election.
Small quiblings- but he's still more actor than politition...