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Power Femme
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A few quick observations
1) The Southern Strategy of race -baiting is now dead. The GOP can never again do the wink and nod and use things like "we want to teach blacks how to work" as a way of gaining votes. The GOP will have to change its tune on immigration and send the Muslim-baiting folks like Bachmann (who won) and West (who didn't) into political Siberia.
2) The country has turned a corner on gay rights. We were running 0 for 32 until last night and we swept on marriage equality so we are now 4 for 32.
3) The end of the drug war may not be in sight but we just passed the beginning of the end of the drug war.
4) The pendulum has swung and America is now course-correcting back to a more liberal-centrist position.
5) The GOP is going to have to drop the anti-birth control insanity and they will have to moderate their anti-abortion stance.
Cheers
Aj
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"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)
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