I wonder how many people would vote for the candidate who said: "Sure, I'm against birth control and gay marriage.
I would agree with him there.
I'm also against Social Security and Medicare.
I'm not in agreement with him there, although I do say that both programs need to be refined and made solvent again---but you can't do that until you can get the criminal political thieves to stop dipping their greedy fingers into the kitty every time they want to fund another $90 million-dollar junket to a whorehouse in Colombia.
I'm against taking away tax breaks from companies that moved your jobs overseas.
I think that any American company that moves operations overseas should not only lose their tax breaks, they should get slapped with a great big fat tariff as well.
I'm against consumer banking protections--as a matter of fact, I'm against ALL consumer protections period.
I don't think anybody's advocating that, Fantine. Let's not go totally off the deep end. Simply because we oppose a bad piece of legislation that cannot be paid for, nor will it pay for itself, doesn't mean we want to throw away every piece of social legislation that's been passed over the last 150 years, you know.
I think we should make your kids' schools safer by following the NRA's suggestion of putting volunteers with guns in the schools.
As long as they're properly trained, I don't have a problem with that. But I think a better idea would be to have camous police in every school who are professional law enforcement officers. You make it sound like eveeryone who owns a gun for protection is a slavering, wild-eyed maniac thirsting for blood. 'Tain't so.
But hey, we don't need to do background checks on them. It would violate their privacy."
If we followed my suggestion and required everybody to be armed, we wouldn't need to worry about background checks.
Is what other people do in their bedrooms important enough to you to vote for someone like that?
Your ficticious candidate is a broad caricature, which fact I'm sure you're aware of. That having been said, I couldn't care less what other people do in their bedrooms, as long as I don't have to watch it, pay for it, approve of it, be involved in it, or have it taught to my children as being normal, beneficial, and desireable.
If so, I guess I was born with a busybody deficiency, because no way would I ever vote for a candidate like that.
I wouldn't either, but as I say, you're describing someone who is way, way, way extreme; you're not describing a conservative candidate, you're describing somebody more along the lines of a member of Occupy Wall Street, who says, "If you don't agree with me, then we might as well just chuck everything!"
Now, admittedly, I tend to go to extremes sometimes myself, like when I talk about armed rebellion being the only solution. But that just goes to show you how polarized we all are in this country, and how frustrated we are with the shape the country is in as well.
Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
