This is going to be pretty broad, but one of my biggest pet peeves is narrow-mindedness. I don’t care to get into political issues here, however, it seems to me that stuff that is nobody’s business is getting thrown into the political arena more than it should. It makes talking politics less about our economic problems or defense problems and more about social or religious issues and I am having a difficult time understanding this trend. It’s not that I don’t understand the issues themselves, but why they are issues at all. I also can’t understand why in the last decade the word liberal has taken on a negative meaning. I remember the first time I noticed liberal used in a negative way. I saw a bumper sticker on a car parked in a 7-11 parking lot that said “Annoy a Liberal, Get a Job.” That one bumper sticker pissed me off so much that I almost stopped to talk to the person. It would have made me late for work though, and I didn’t want to annoy any conservatives by losing my job. Okay, that one was at least based on social programs I suppose, which is a governmental purpose that conservatives have a problem with, I understand that, but that issue opens the door to other issues, such as poverty and unemployment. Those are some of the issues that irritate conservatives, and until recently they, apparently, always have jobs and money and never take advantage of social programs. Really?? Liberals, to me, are non-racist, open minded, compassionate individuals. What’s wrong with that? Why is caring about other people a bad thing in the minds of conservatives? How is that a threat to society? Don’t give me your crap about social programs and taxes; it’s a bullshit reason to be offended by poverty and unemployment, especially now, and don’t you wish you’d kept your collective big mouths shut now that millions of your own have joined the ranks of the unemployed and working class due to your greed?
But, I digress. Mostly what shocks me is why so many people take things like racial differences, religious freedoms of others, and equal marital rights so personally. How does this affect anybody and why are people so threatened by these things? Why has it become okay again to be so openly racist? I’m not saying I think that political correctness didn’t get blown out of proportion in the last decade, and people hadn’t become overly sensitive for a long period of time leading up to now. I am saying that it isn’t okay to just throw political correctness out the window now. I love it how people say ‘oh we have a black president now the country has come so far!’ Bullshit! Look at the things that have been acceptable to say about our president? It’s okay to question his citizenship, compare him to insane dictators like Hitler, and accuse him of reverse racism. I hate the term reverse racism by the way, reverse racism means not racist in my opinion, racist is racist, regardless of which where it’s directed. If there were a white president in office none of this would be tolerated, at all. If people even dared to criticize Bush it was considered unpatriotic, and he was committing war crimes! Okay, I said I wasn’t going to get political, sorry.
The thing I’m most confused and frankly shocked about, is why people care about whether or not gay people can legally be married. How does it affect anybody? How is it a threat to the sanctity of traditional marriage? I don’t get it. You don’t want people to be able to benefit from the insurance and tax benefits afforded to married couples?
Oh, you don’t want gay couples to be able to adopt children? That’s right, because you were planning on adopting children, because there are so many unwanted children in our country that you want to help them out by giving them a loving home right? Oh no, that’s right, you don’t want a troubled child, or a crack baby, right? So, while I support adopting children from other countries, and have known people who’ve done that, and admire them, I don’t believe for a second that given the opportunity most of the extremely wealthy people would never even consider adopting an unwanted American child because that child will most likely be black. An unwanted child is a child in need of a loving home no matter the circumstance, and there are plenty in need here on our own soil. So, Angelina, stop importing babies, help some home grown kids out!
Okay, that’s my rant, it’s random, it’s disorganized and it’s probably a bit whiney, preachy, and most likely offensive, but it’s my blog and I can say what I want damn it!
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