12-02-2011, 03:26 PM
Conservative - Religious - Liberal - Secular.
Gay rights, stem cell research, abortion - all of these 'hot button' topics are the Republican campaign platform. Anything goes wrong and suddenly the Republicans are pushing one of these buttons to draw attention away from the problem.
The Republicans do not want to have gay marriage banned. Nor to have the gays rounded up or anything along those lines. They want - no, need, the issue to remain so they can have a fail-safe topic to fall back on. If they really wanted the gay to go away they could have swept us under the carpet long, long ago.
At the same time they do not want everything to pass in favor either, because again, the gay topic is a hot button topic, once its gone its gone for good and they can no longer hit that button to win votes or to distract the people.
Liberals have other topics they can draw upon, but they also know the usefulness of keeping the hot topic buttons available for they will rile up the conservatives when they (the liberals) do something 'wrong' in order to draw attention away from whatever went wrong. So the Liberals do not want the issue resolved because they lose the political hot topic button to push when needed.
Register third party to vote. Granted you will be forced to vote Demoncrate or Repugliecan... but it gives you a little more wiggle room and you can run a third party candidate to some minor office, thus splitting up the Two party system a little.
Gay rights, stem cell research, abortion - all of these 'hot button' topics are the Republican campaign platform. Anything goes wrong and suddenly the Republicans are pushing one of these buttons to draw attention away from the problem.
The Republicans do not want to have gay marriage banned. Nor to have the gays rounded up or anything along those lines. They want - no, need, the issue to remain so they can have a fail-safe topic to fall back on. If they really wanted the gay to go away they could have swept us under the carpet long, long ago.
At the same time they do not want everything to pass in favor either, because again, the gay topic is a hot button topic, once its gone its gone for good and they can no longer hit that button to win votes or to distract the people.
Liberals have other topics they can draw upon, but they also know the usefulness of keeping the hot topic buttons available for they will rile up the conservatives when they (the liberals) do something 'wrong' in order to draw attention away from whatever went wrong. So the Liberals do not want the issue resolved because they lose the political hot topic button to push when needed.
Register third party to vote. Granted you will be forced to vote Demoncrate or Repugliecan... but it gives you a little more wiggle room and you can run a third party candidate to some minor office, thus splitting up the Two party system a little.
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