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Once more, I find myself shaking my head in disbelief at something involving American politics.
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It seems every election cycle, people try to outdo the ludicrousness of the last. It's really depressing enough already that had this been the general election campaign and Dillard an Obama supporter, I wouldn't have been surprised. But this is the Republican primary season and Dillard is supporting a Republican candidate. You know, same team. The behavior demonstrated during political campaigns by all involved, the candidates and their staff as well as voters, is just a symptom of a larger problem with our society in general. It seems there is this latent fury that builds up between cycles, that then gradually releases into the atmosphere during campaign seasons until it just explodes. While the candidates themselves always publicly express abhorrence at this sort of nonsense when directly asked, their rhetoric otherwise seems almost designed to actually encourage it. People make statements criticizing the negative behavior and violence that seems to be so common place during election season, but collectively it is simply accepted as the status quo. I firmly believe that the biggest reason we have this problem is because of a failure of the education system. For several generations, American students have failed to learn one very important quality that can be applied to several aspects of life: the ability to think critically. I'll save for another post the reasons why I believe this to be true. As far as politics go, for too many people it has become a matter of faith and emotion. I say faith in the sense of believing that your view is the right view, the candidates you support are always right, and no one can tell you otherwise. And anywhere faith is involved, compromise and understanding take a vacation and emotions are sure to run high. Politics is no different. It boils down to ideology. Religion is, of course, the great example of how faith and emotion can become so intertwined that genuinely good people carry out the most reprehensible acts. Steven Weinberg expressed this so well in his famous quote:
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
However, I think it's important to understand that religion is just another kind of ideology. More importantly, religions are inherently divisive ideologies. When you subscribe to one, you are prohibited from subscribing to another. The dividing lines are clearly drawn. It is this divisive nature of religion that creates the perfect environment for the volatile mixture of faith and emotion to bubble over into extreme behavior. We tend not to see this sort of thing between different sects of the same religion, as there is enough common ground that extreme emotional outbursts are rarely tolerated. And so goes politics. Politics in America, throughout the nation's history, has had different periods of divisiveness and cohesion. If we look at the periods of cohesion, when two parties with opposing ideologies work together to find compromise, the sort of extreme behavior and rhetoric we see today are considered fringe. But during periods of divisiveness, more of that fringe behavior becomes mainstream. That is what we are seeing today. The two parties we have now have both contributed to a climate of ideological divisiveness that has allowed extreme elements to ferment. Though it's easy to lay the blame solely at the feet of the Republicans for pushing their party ever farther to the right and for their ever more strict adherence to their ideology, that would be unfair. The Democrats contributed just as much by not pushing back. By not standing up and forcefully pushing their own agenda, the Republicans never had a reason to compromise. As a result, the refusal to compromise has become standard operating procedure for Republican politicians as they hold up nominations and routinely obstruct Democratic initiatives. If we look back to the 19th century, we can see a similar period of divisiveness in Antebellum America. From the waning days of the Monroe administration, there was the rise of the Second Party System and the nation divided between Whig and Democrat. The issues of the time were slavery, states' rights and Manifest Destiny. A series of Democratic presidents (the Democrats were the conservative party of the time) repeatedly abused their power. President Andrew Jackson's crimes were multitude, ranging from his authorizing post masters to (illegally) prohibit abolitionist letters from being delivered in the mail, to his infamous (and illegal) treatment of native Americans. President James K. Polk (secretly) provoked a war with Mexico solely to gain territory, and it was supported by pro-slavery members of Congress who hoped to see the ultimate adoption of more slave states. In this environment, with presidents routinely exceeding their authority and politicians of one party delivering fiery and impassioned speeches against the other, it is no surprise that ideological violence became common. We all know where it ultimately ended up, in a bitter Civil War. So here we are again, in another period of bitter ideological divisiveness. Abusive rhetoric is so normal during a campaign season that it's expected. It's become so emotionally charged that now even members of the same party are fair game. And I guarantee you there are Republican voters out there cheering the fact that a Paul supporter got his foot smashed. Politicians routinely receive death threats, and, collectively, no one bats an eye. One politician has already been shot in a failed assassination attempt (during the off season, no less). Is our political environment more or less divisive than Antebellum politics? Who knows. There's no way to compare emotions we actually feel now with those described in a history text. The main point to take away is that we see how that turned out. Do we really want to allow our situation to worsen?  

A Lesson for Rick Santorum

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What would you do, the female student asked Santorum, if you found out that your child was gay? “I got that question the other night at the debate,” Santorum replied. “And it’s funny — I think I get that question more than most candidates. I haven’t heard anybody getting that."
No, it's not a bit funny. The reason Santorum is asked that question so much and other candidates aren't is obviously because he is more vocal with his discrimination against homosexuals. And yes, it is discrimination whether he wants to admit it or not. Dictionary.com lists this definition of the word discrimination, from the Random House Dictionary:
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I challenge Rick Santorum and anyone else who opposes same-sex marriage to explain how their position is not discrimination according to the definition above. That definition describes their position quite accurately, I think. As well as opposition to homosexuals in the military, opposition to child adoption by same-sex couples, and other anti-homosexual positions commonly seen among conservatives.
The fact that Santorum is getting confronted so often about this issue is a good thing. It shows that, at least in New Hampshire, a number young people are not going to tolerate discrimination from their elected officials. Of course, that attitude, to Santorum, is discrimination. From the article linked above:
“Now, I get a kick out of this,” he said, “because I’m told all the time: ‘Santorum, quit trying to impose your ideas on everybody else. Quit trying to impose your morality on everybody else.’ But what’s that? Is that not trying to impose their morality on everybody else?”
People like Santorum seem incapable of understanding what "imposing morality" really means. Time and again, when conservatives are confronted over their will to institute discriminatory laws, they turn the tables and cry that they are the ones being discriminated against. The thing that frustrates me the most is that it's so simple, a child should be able to figure it out.
Allowing same-sex couples to marry harms no one. I mean it. No one! There are homosexuals all over the world living together, sleeping together, loving together and doing everything that same-sex couples do. Allowing those couples to marry does not, in any way, affect the lives of those who oppose same-sex marriage. They will still be just as ignorant of those couples, and as ignorant of reality, as they have always been. On the other hand, a law that prohibits same-sex couples from marrying does harm someone. It harms every same-sex couple who only want to have the same rights that heterosexual couples have. It denies them the legal benefits that accompany marriage. It denies them the right to sit in a hospital, at the bedside of the one they love, in situations when only immediate family members are allowed in the room. Need I go on? Because there is actual harm, because someone's rights are actually restricted, any kind of vote to prohibit same-sex marriage is an imposition of morality. Rick Santorum is free to hate homosexuality for any reason he wants, be they religious or otherwise. But he, and people like him, should never be allowed to deny any segment of the population the same rights the rest of the population enjoy. Working to prevent them from doing so is not an imposition of morality. It is a defense of human rights.

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