I can’t remember any earlier campaign where I strongly objected to every single candidate.
No, I don’t mean in the general sense of “He’s a statist,” as if I were a mammal and all the candidates were fish, so my objection would naturally be “But he’s a fish.” Of course they’re all statists. Why would an individualist run for office? But no, I mean every single one of these creatures is, personally and in stated policy, really strongly objectionable.
I give you, just as the lowest common example, that lion of the republican party John Kasich…
John Kasich said Sunday that people who favor laws allowing businesses not to serve gay couples need to “calm down” and “get over” their opposition to lifestyles that differ from their own.
“What I’d like to say is, just relax,” Kasich said on CNN. “If you don’t like what somebody’s doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it? You know?”
“Get over it.” Get a load of that.
Because after all, the social justice warriors have spoken. The science is settled. Never mind your own principles, you religious bigot, that nice gay couple has a right to its wedding cake. Which – in our zero-sum universe which Kasich seems to think is just fine – means you have no rights at all.
And he’s the moderate one.
Literally, in detail, almost fractally, none of the above is acceptable.
I don’t object to the cake (unless it was made under threat of bankruptcy via lawsuit), I object to my taxes being used to finance the enforcement of legal benefits for people whose “marriages” don’t produce new citizens. Spousal immunity in court, tax-free inheritance, dual filing, spousal coverage on insurance, etc (per Google there’s over 1,000 legal bennies to marriage). All of those exist to support *family formation*.
If people just want to live together, love one another, and make the beast with two (or four, or 17, or whatever) backs, *without* producing well-adjusted, law-abiding, productive citizens to keep the nation going, they can damn well do it without any subsidies from me. And I include m/f couples who actively avoid parenthood as well.
It’s not a marriage until it produces children.
oh…look…a soapbox…
As a Canadian at the risk of being stoned…
I’ve actually been following the train wreak that is called the presidential primaries. You can’t buy that class of entertainment. Commies to the left, fascists to the right and no winners anywhere to be found. You guys are living the political Kobayashi maru scenario.