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ok, lets.
I've been wondering why I feel a bit more comfortable with Democrats in charge of Congress. As has been rightly pointed out by Nephy and others, they are barely discernable from the Republicans, beholden to their own set of special monied interests, and just as crooked as the day is long.
Perhaps my comfort level with the slightly more liberal side of the political equation we seem stuck with in this country is that, for the most part, liberals seem less to want to control other people than conservatives do.
I think the only control-folks item on the liberal agenda is to make very rich people pay the taxes they paid a few years ago.
One of my personal values, raised with and born with, and one I consider a supremely American value as well ... is mind my own frelling business. Don't tell other people what they can and cannot do.
So, as a woman, I wouldn't want other people trying to stop my human right to control my reproductive choices. As a gay man, I don't want other people trying to stop my human right to marry among the only people I can fall in love with. There are many other examples.
In my book, that's just not right.
Do conservatives see it differently?
If the God of the New Hampshirites told Her people to pass a law that only women could hold jobs in the U.S., how would some of you conservatives feel about New Hampshirites?
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