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A fair question deserves a good response. Let me say that what excites me doesn't necessarily do it for the next person. The things about this article that get me going is what I see as the hopefully more agressive stance democrats will be taking in the coming election.
For instance I think this is beautiful:
" If we don't act like we believe in ourselves, nobody else is going to believe in us either. So please, guys, either show up ready to fight, or don't show up at all. Commitment is always going to beat cowardice. If we want to win on this, we have to be as passionate and powerful in our defense of our position as the religious right is in theirs. We have to get as fired up about equality and justice as they are about hellfire and damnation. It can be done. And indeed, it must."
In addition to that she touches on points that I agree with but seem to be rarely discussed:
"In my humble opinion, the major reason that most religious right-wing groups are so frightened by the prospect of same-sex marriage is that it will weaken the Christian church's power in this country by separating civil marriage from religious marriage. Once we do that, the Christian right no longer gets to dictate the structure and shape of the basic American family unit. When the Christian right talks about trying to keep marriage sacred, what they are really talking about is keeping marriage under their jurisdiction. After all, if sanctity was what they really cared about, shouldn't they all be picketing the set of The Bachelor?
... A lot of the right's anti-same-sex marriage propaganda is just as offensive to a single parent as it is to a gay couple. ... that rhetoric ought to make a lot of hardworking divorced and single parents pretty fucking angry. Why doesn't it? Because they don't know it's out there."
This is a personal thing, I have it out for religion, or at least the overarching institution of "the church".
I liked Rule #4 because it's a fresh argument for me and it seems powerful. People will always believe their neighbors over their television.
Anyway to keep from re-posting the whole article, my over all point is it's good to see people getting fired up. She's right, failure is not an option, it's like my signature. The speech given by Winston Churchill after a narrow military escape for the British ends on an incredible note:
"We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old."
The point being that there's no turning back now. As liberals it's time for us to find our spines and stake our territory. I'm finished with wondering and arguing if what we're doing is right, it is, period, end of story. Helping people will never be wrong and I'm tired of justifying it to conservatives so I'm not going to do it anymore. What I'm going to do now is help the needy and annihilate the greedy so conservatives better be on their toes.
So... thats why I liked the article.
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