Why is it that our political leaders put their collective feet in their mouths every other week? For instance, the recent uproar over the comments over Rep. Akin’s comments on the definition of what is rape has everyone outraged. When he said that there is such a thing like “legitimate rape” was not only shocking but it shows that we’ve got whack jobs running for political office on an agenda that is set to send us all of us back sixty years or more if they win.
Now I may be a moderate Democrat (slightly left of center) and being a moderate is a dirty word in politics these days, but with no one in the political center to keep the balance, we will always get people like this Todd Akin character who are so far out of the mainstream it’s ridiculous.
I’ve already said that when it comes to women’s health matters, the federal government needs to stay out of it at all costs. What goes on between a woman and her doctor has to stay between them and leave the government out of it. This is a double standard. The folks on the political right want to lessen the role of the federal government and get them out of our lives, but they want to make sure that abortions are outlawed so that women won’t have any choice regarding their bodies.
Now I’m all for people taking a stance on what you believe whether it’s your stance on abortion, gay marriage, and what we should do with immigration; but we can’t sit by and let a few extremists on either side of the political sphere to dictate what everyone has to go by. I say this: leave the issue of gay marriage to the states and let them decide what’s best on that (personally, I support everyone having equal opportunity for happiness) but the federal government has to deal with immigration. I already said that women’s health is off limits as it’s men are always dictating policy.
Unfortunately, with the threat of the right growing by the day, I fear we’re about to go backwards when it comes to rights in this country. These voter ID laws have become a problem for a problem that doesn’t exist. Now voters in many states have to scramble just to get an ID so they can cast a vote in November. Here in Mississippi, I did vote against the measure that would make people in this state provide some form of ID at the polls (personally, I didn’t care at the time as I have a state-issued ID with an expiration date) but the measure was approved and now waiting for the go-ahead from the Justice Department. My concern for the country is that this is going to disenfranchise millions of voters (mostly poor, minorities and those who don’t live near a DMV). The right has decided to run on a platform of propping up the rich and cutting everything else and taken the stance of win at any cost even if it means cutting people from the voting process.
I know that some will not agree with some of the positions I’ve taken in this blog. That’s your right to do so and no one will mess with it. I say take the time to think about what’s going on in the country right now. We have a problem with violence in many different cities, our education system sucks something awful and our infrastructure is falling apart faster that we can patch it up. Unfortunately, our politicians aren’t capable of dealing with the country’s problems as they constantly argue about matters that only benefit the political party and not the country. It’s time to send a message that we will not stand by and let a few deranged people in power send this country sixty years in the wrong direction. It’s time to send anyone in Washington, D.C. who’s been there for too long (8 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate in my opinion) need to take their useless tails home and let them feel what it’s like to be unemployed. This country is in a bad spot and right now, and we’re heading in the wrong direction – backwards.
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