Wow, haven't seen one of these posts from you in a long while ... good to know you're still alive and around, and active on LiveJournal. (Actually maybe it hasn't been THAT long, but I tend to gloss over the DJ Particle music stuff ^^;;)
I'm not convinced that the Republican Party is capable of dragging itself back towards the center at this point, short of the tea party contingent being split off entirely. (... which is more or less what you said, except maybe for reversing the cause/effect pairing.) It may well be that the Republican Party as a whole needs to break apart and a new second party organize in its stead, or that a current "third party" rises to fill the incipient organizational vacuum for conservatives. Granted, it's as possible for me to be wrong as it is for anyone else.
One slight quibble re: "religion is supposed to stay out of politics by Constitutional edict" ...
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It's not that religion is supposed to stay out of politics; the Founding Fathers were heavily Christian themselves (even if they hewed to some beliefs that we find repugnant today - like slavery). But there can be no officially-sanctioned state religion. Neither can they ban any faith, or the practice thereof, from American soil.
That said, a lot of Republican/conservative posturing does attempt to enshrine supposedly-Christian values as the law of the land - but even then they're wrong, at least to the extent that they're espousing a spectacularly closed-minded set of values which (many) other Christians take exception to. I believe that the theory of evolution is correct as opposed to the theory of creationism; I believe that two people who are devoted to each other should be able to marry and obtain the benefits of marriage regardless of color or gender - and this does not conflict with my own Christian religious beliefs, nor those of my parents.
There's more I'd like to say, but I have to pry myself offline and head to work. However, I was curious what Rush Limbaka had to say about the election, and I'm grateful that you were bold enough to find out and relay it - no way I was going to go spelunking in the depths of Bull**** Mountain (thank you, Jon Stewart :D) to find out for myself.
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Date: 2012-11-09 01:07 pm (UTC)I'm not convinced that the Republican Party is capable of dragging itself back towards the center at this point, short of the tea party contingent being split off entirely. (... which is more or less what you said, except maybe for reversing the cause/effect pairing.) It may well be that the Republican Party as a whole needs to break apart and a new second party organize in its stead, or that a current "third party" rises to fill the incipient organizational vacuum for conservatives. Granted, it's as possible for me to be wrong as it is for anyone else.
One slight quibble re: "religion is supposed to stay out of politics by Constitutional edict" ...
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It's not that religion is supposed to stay out of politics; the Founding Fathers were heavily Christian themselves (even if they hewed to some beliefs that we find repugnant today - like slavery). But there can be no officially-sanctioned state religion. Neither can they ban any faith, or the practice thereof, from American soil.
That said, a lot of Republican/conservative posturing does attempt to enshrine supposedly-Christian values as the law of the land - but even then they're wrong, at least to the extent that they're espousing a spectacularly closed-minded set of values which (many) other Christians take exception to. I believe that the theory of evolution is correct as opposed to the theory of creationism; I believe that two people who are devoted to each other should be able to marry and obtain the benefits of marriage regardless of color or gender - and this does not conflict with my own Christian religious beliefs, nor those of my parents.
There's more I'd like to say, but I have to pry myself offline and head to work. However, I was curious what Rush Limbaka had to say about the election, and I'm grateful that you were bold enough to find out and relay it - no way I was going to go spelunking in the depths of Bull**** Mountain (thank you, Jon Stewart :D) to find out for myself.