Baron Max said:
But aren't all of us "...disinterested ignorant unwashed morons..." part of "We, The People"? Just because we don't bathe and we're ignorant and uninterested, aren't we permitted to vote for our representatives?
Yes, you are, and that's the problem. You've got your heads stuck too far up your asses to realize that you aren't qualified to make an intelligent decision about these sorts of issues, but you go ahead and do it anyway. This has more to do with passing specific state measures than electing representatives, as there can be many reasons you'd rather have one person in office than another, so things are a bit more complicated, but I suppose it can still hold true, especially when say most of Ohio votes for Bush who’s just going to ensure that everyone in Ohio looses their job anyhow. That’s a kind of poetic justice.
Baron Max said:
We have, I believe, a representative, republic government in this country and if it DOES NOT represent "The People", then who the fuck DOES it represent?
This question is so detrimental to your own argument that I'm having a hard time wondering why you wrote it. First off, yes, good point about the US being a republic and all. . . doesn't that kind of mean we try to get the people best suited for the job in their place? Also, if our government is meant to serve "the people" assuming that's
all of the people, then why is specific legislation being written just to screw over some specific group of the people who are only looking for a right that wouldn't effect anyone else and help to put them at even with the rest of the citizenry?
Critical thinking is fun, you should probably do a bit of it yourself before tearing your own argument down around yourself. You might even come to rational conclusions rather than ones based upon the urge to crush your fellow man for his differences.
Baron Max said:
Oh, don't know if you know it, but Texas changed it's laws .....ain't gonna' be no stinkin' homo marriages in Texas no more!! Power to the people! ;=)
Well that's not much of a change, now is it? Same-sex marriage is already illegal in every state except for Massachusetts (and possibly soon California) for years and years. Texas is no different. All that these constitutional amendments are doing is making it even more illegal or denying even the possibility of giving some legal rights to same-sex couples. When it comes down to it not much is actually changing, moronic "values voters" are just setting up a precedent of oppression and abuse of the legislative system which could very well come back to bite them in the ass when the pendulum swings the other way.
Also, that's just assuming that Texas did recently amend it's constitution (which I haven't heard) and you're not just confusing the recent legislation in Texas which prohibits homosexuals from getting into the foster care system (rather likely as I doubt you pay much attention to actual current events, but instead just listen to sound bites and form a view of the world that Limbaugh Scarborough and the fox news pundits draw for ya).
I remember this thread.