JDG wrote:
Again, the only conclusion I can draw from using loaded language like "so
it begins" is that religious conservatives either shouldn't be allowed to
participate in the political process, or that if they are, they shouldn't
ever be allowed to actually *win* and maybe enact some portions of their
Agenda. Apparently the nation's social policy is supposed to be left to
the *losers* of election, or better yet, to judges who were never even
elected in the first place!
I don't think this is about winning or losing elections. To me, it is about how the leadership views the nation. The party that wins the White House and Congress hasn't won the country in the way that the person with a winning lottery ticket wins the money. Elections are our way of making the best decision we can, not our way of deciding who was right and who was wrong. It is much more of a conversation than a contest; I think those who talk about it more as a contest than a conversation do us all a great disservice.
In a fair election, there are no losers. Sadly, it seems that hardly anyone is willing to look at it that way these days.
Nick
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