Friday, August 17, 2012

Why I Hate Politics

I was reading an article on Mitt Robot’s running mate, Paul Ryan, and a particular paragraph struck me:
Ryan consults with a stable of conservative economists and scholars, including John Taylor, a Stanford University economist who has had posts in three GOP administrations. He has long praised the works of Ayn Rand, the Russian-born writer who strenuously championed an unfettered capitalism hinged to individual rights and responsibility, but in recent days has distanced himself from her, citing her atheism. -via the associated press' Paul Ryan's ideas nurtured by top conservatives by Alan Fram 
Seriously? This is what’s so fucked with politics. You can’t endorse a literary genius because you might lose some conservative (mainly christian) voters?! How about upholding the constitutional separation between church and state? Remember that part? It’s written in the FIRST AMENDMENT!!!

The Bill of Rights, Constitution, and other written documents were constructed by our forefathers (not your fathers, GOP) to create a, everyone say it together: Democracy! That means acknowledging the progress we’ve made through Supreme Court decisions (i.e. Rowe vs. Wade) made by a panel of presidentially-appointed judges, some who've tried decades of important trials.

Maybe you should’ve spent more time paying attention in elementary school history class and less time looking at the sky. And if there is a God who rules supreme, he doesn’t wear dad jeans, hide tax returns, and avoid alcohol & caffeine.

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