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June 2015 Moms
karaelaine1991
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political thread
karaelaine1991
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Have a political opinion that you want to get off your chest? Post it here! But be prepared to potentially get flamed - we all know this is a hot topic!
Re: political thread
Also the pro-life thing. I will not be convinced that politicians give two craps about whether a particular embryo or fetus lives or not. They just know that they can package pro-life in with a bunch of other issues (gun rights, less regulation - environmental, financial, privatization of public services, reduction of public services) and get people to the polls because of that one issue. The other issues are the money makers, and the power plays, and supporting those issues gets them elected. I know this is inflammatory, but I really feel like anyone (and yes, particularly women) who is convinced to vote Republican because that candidate is supposedly pro-life has been duped. I don't for a second doubt the genuine feelings any individual has about what should happen if a woman finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, but as a political issue I just don't buy it.
Here's some of my political opinions:
Obama is shady and if you pay attention a lot of his plots are surfacing.
The Clinton train has to stop because they are scary AF, like mass amounts of people die suddenly when shit hits the fan around them. Super family's shouldn't be given power.
Russia scares me too. Like they are waiting for war to break out so they can run the world.
America has stepped in and "helped" all the wrong people "somehow" ?!?!
conspiracy theories intrigue me and I can't stop. Like its a problem. I have too many books and watch too many tv shows on it.
And our shady government is making "proud to be an American" harder and harder for everyone lately. Our vets aren't properly cared for and our freedoms are slowly being taken away.
I don't like it.
Haha, thanks! I will admit, there was a time when I thought outlawing it ASAP was the best solution, but thankfully I've had the opportunity to have respectful conversations with people on the other side of the issue and listen to what they've had to say. And - shocker! - I don't disagree with everything they have to say! There are valid points on both sides. I wish more people were willing to have discussions rather than debates - we might actually be make real progress on many issues if more people were open to listening!
@devyns2nd has touched on something that really bothers me. "Proud to be an american". As the wife of an active duty military member, I am truly embarrassed by the care our service members get sometimes. Some stations we have been at have been so discouraging when my husband was sick or injured. Add into the constant struggles over budgeting (not our budgeting, I'm referring to when the government shuts down or deadlocks over a budget), where our service members are NOT paid if an agreement is not made over budget. This most recent disagreement over the DHS budget would have resulted in my hubs not getting paid but still being expected to guard our borders from drugs and rescue seafarers. Which of course, he would do, but that's how you thank your service members? By not paying them? Retired veterans get the shaft, they aren't managed medically well (a lot of them would really benefit from medicinal marijuana, actually). Our congress always wants to send our sons and daughters to war, but none of them have sons or daughters in the military, because they can afford to send their kids to school while the poor join so they can hopefully go to school with the GI bill. Ugh... Just... I could go all day
ETA - did you know that there are more NYPD than there are in the *whole* Coast Guard? And they are funded better, also?
-our right to bear arms
-our right to privacy (patriot act)
And simple civil liberties like what we can or can't have on our properties even daycares are weighing children and forcing meal plans on them. Our freedom of choice, even federally mandated laws are forced on individual states. they are taking away our voice slowly.
Forgive My grammmet my keyboard does wedadec what it wants!,
...Left that unedited for scale. I'd go crazy trying to fix everything.
Also, my mom had an abortion when she was a kid because she was raped by her father and became pregnant with his kid. I'm glad my mom was able to have an abortion so she didn't have to deal with the emotional toll that would have placed on her.
Again, I couldn't see myself ever getting an abortion, but I'm glad the option is there for others.
Eta: sorry if there's typos or this doesn't make sense. Typing it quickly before my next appointment shows up.
1) how has the right to bear arms been taken away?
2) how do we solve the growing problem of school and public shootings? (If you say more guns, I need facts and a lot more detail)
Abortion: I hate the term Pro-Life. You can be pro-life and still be pro-choice. After being pregnant myself, I am fiercely pro-choice. My body doesn't feel like my own right now. So the idea that someone could legislate further what choices I can and cannot make about what is happening to my own body makes me mad as hell. I cannot even conceive of trying to impose my view on abortion onto another woman.
I hate democracy, you guys. I think it affords a lot of important rights that don't exist under any other current system. However, I do not think the vast majority of the population, even myself, is qualified to make public policy decisions. There should be minimum qualification standards for every high level politician, in the same way there are minimum qualification standards for every job.
Btw I so feel like everyone has experienced life in a different way and politics are different depending on your location. were all friends
Oh and the gun thing...no one needs automatic weapons. That's understandable. I however do want the choice to protect my family and my land. I've been held at gun point and it's not fun. I will never be that vulnerable again.
ETA because my phone hates me and the ughs are for examples that I couldn't not give even though I planned on just giving one.
Proud Mama to cleft cutie
1. Gay Rights
2. Women's Rights
our national deficit
:-h
I'd hang out with Bill (Clinton). We know that dude smokes green and is a pimp, I bet he's got some stories to tell. We'd toss back a few beers and smoke a blunt and ask him for funny anecdotes on world leaders (like the time some foreign minister farted at a conference or something)
:x