On that last point we agree completely. Marriage is a religious event, civil unions are a legally binding contract surrounding inheritance (kill the death tax!), care of offspring, etc. Gawd doesn't enter into it.
Actually, I brought up the gay marriage to illustrate that our choices are even more limited and less rich than they appear to be. We are so trained to accept and settle for a lesser of two evils, that it doesn't even occur to most folks to think outside of that mental cage. It was not intended to be an example of 'any single issue difference is a settling'.
And to work backwards through your post, again, thinking from the outset how to vote strategically is an artificial construct of our voting system. Stop and consider how you may have approached it, if you had the choice of many candidates today? It's an interesting gedankenexperiment.
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Date: 2004-11-02 07:22 pm (UTC)Actually, I brought up the gay marriage to illustrate that our choices are even more limited and less rich than they appear to be. We are so trained to accept and settle for a lesser of two evils, that it doesn't even occur to most folks to think outside of that mental cage. It was not intended to be an example of 'any single issue difference is a settling'.
And to work backwards through your post, again, thinking from the outset how to vote strategically is an artificial construct of our voting system. Stop and consider how you may have approached it, if you had the choice of many candidates today? It's an interesting gedankenexperiment.