I love it, I simply love it

Reading and thinking about politics can really be best described as a pill that is a downer. Today however the approach taken will be that it is best to smile at one´s adversaries and to approach problems as things that can be solved as opposed to unmovable objects.

Let us begin with something my brother noted: that no matter which party is in power in the US the country will not disappear or change all that much. This is actually true for most democratic nations. Spain is a good instance, Zapatero and socialists have been in power for a while and they have not made Spain into a communist country. That is why the next time I hear these people moaning about the US becoming a communist country I am going to laugh my ass off. What would be nice in the US would be the conservative party actually having ideas beyond what they call "traditional families" and lower taxes. Actually what would really be amazing is if the libertarian wing truly jumped away from the conservative wing and started their own party. Then we could see who the intolerant people are.

A funny thing happened the other day in Washington: a transgender person was appointed by the president to a high position and these conservatives went well ape shit. How can he do this they asked? He is just doing this as a token gesture, or he is killing his voters off by turning off those independent conservatives, they screamed. I love it. Keep screaming so that we know who the intolerant are and we can then stop listening to them. Here is the article by the way on the transgender thing.
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