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October 4, 2003

Politics

I often feel that my own political beliefs are such that I cannot safely discuss them with co-workers, etc. Why? Heck, I guess it is political correctness and all that other rot.
I used to be quite the liberal - in fact, I was a Democrat Precinct Captain in Johnson County, Kansas - a Republican stronghold, until Bill Clinton was elected.

I'm not sure why I changed my thinking on things, or even if I changed my thinking - I think the Democrat Party moved really far away from me in the 70s and 80s and 90s.

Yes, that does make me old - pbbblllllltttt. I'm 50.

I remeber the day that JFK was killed - I was in 3rd Grade French Class ( we had a teacher who always reminded me of a French Hen), when Reverend Mother McMally came into our classroom to ask us to go to the chapel and pray, because President Kennedy had been shot. School was dismissed until the day after the funeral.

I remember when Robert Kennedy was shot - I was spending the night at Laurie Lamberton's house and we saw it all on TV.

I remember when Martin Luther King was shot - mostly because the assasination caused riots in many cities all over the country.

I was a Hubert Humphrey democrat - I have always felt that our National Defense was of most importance, but that social concerns needed to be addressed, also.

Well, I could on with this, but I'll skip a few decades.

When I was 32, I had my son, Andy.

When I was 34, I miscarried, and was crushed for a long time - I then started feeling very angry towards so-called pro-choicers (I prefer to think of them as pro-abortionists) because they denied the humanity of those babies not yet born, yet I felt to my very soul that a separate little human being in my care had died for whatever reason - this was not just a lump of tissue!

I had another miscarriage at 37. My then Mother-in-law said it was just as well, because her son, my husband, had some health problems at the time.

When I was 39, I lost my third pregnancy - this one was so much worse because I had made it past 4 months - had just seen a wonderful sonogram of our baby, and then I got influenza, a fever of 104, and lost that baby. This was such an awful experience, along with other issues, my 18 year marriage began to come to a close.

Anyway, as one who has lost 3 babies naturally - I have real problems with women who can so easily dismiss the children of their own flesh and blood as body parts - pieces of tissue - nothing alive in its own right.

I started leaning more towards the right of middle.

When I was a year out of college, I joined the Army Reserve as a behavioral science specialist. When I did this, a lot of my liberal friends mocked me, but I have always felt that I should give back just a little to our country - we do live in the most wonderful place on earh. I was embarrassed to tell people that I could not do anything on a weekend because I had my Reserve weekend to serve.

I met some so-called feminists who were active members of NOW when I was was in my 30's - one of them tried to convince me that abortion was a better end for a baby than adoption - when I told her I had been adopted, she told me I would have been better off dead.

ArggghhhH!!!

And they think Republicans are cold blooded?

I am also very much a libertarian. I do think the current ' drug war" is an incredible waste of money - I think that the majority of drug abusers/sellers in prison would be better off by far in a detox or community setting - this should not be a crime unless you do something really evil in tandem with the drug use.

I don't care if someone it gay or straight or bi. It's their business, their issue, and as long as no one is fucking in public, I don't care who does who in what matter.

I hate over regulation. I will never live in a neighborhood with a Homeowners Association. I want to landscape my yard the way I want to do it - not the way some overpaid designer has decided upon.

damn, this is getting really long. I am not a Republican, but I am less of a Democrat. I will most likely vote Republican, because writing in a name is pretty much of a waste of my vote.

Actually, most politicians are pretty damn close to evil in my mind - how many are really there to serve the people? Or, how many are there in an effort to impress someone or other?

I'm tired. Going to bed!

Posted by Beth at October 4, 2003 8:31 PM

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