Saturday, August 26, 2006
Wishing for murder...
But it's OK, it's in the name of peace. Russel Shaw at the Huffington Post:
Does anyone still wonder why the left embraces any cause - as fascist and disgusting it may be - provided it attacks our society? Could it be because of their hatred and despise for their fellow citizien that don't think like the left finds they should? Nha! Too simple, for sure.
I hope and pray we don't get hit again, like we did on September 11. Even one life lost to the violence of terrorism is too much. [...]
What if another terror attack just before this fall's elections could save many thousand-times the lives lost?
I start from the premise that there is already a substantial portion of the electorate that tends to vote GOP because they feel that Bush has "kept us safe," and that the Republicans do a better job combating terrorism.
If an attack occurred just before the elections, I have to think that at least a few of the voters who persist in this "Bush has kept us safe" thinking would realize the fallacy they have been under.
If 5% of the "he's kept us safe" revise their thinking enough to vote Democrat, well, then, the Dems could recapture the House and the Senate and be in a position to:
Block the next Supreme Court appointment, one which would surely result in the overturning of Roe and the death of hundreds if not thousands of women from abortion-prohibiting states at the hands of back-alley abortionists;
Be in a position to elevate the party's chances for a regime change in 2008. A regime change that would:
Save hundreds of thousands of American lives by enacting universal health care;
Save untold numbers of lives by pushing for cleaner air standards that would greatly reduce heart and lung diseases;
More enthusiastically address the need for mass transit, the greater availability of which would surely cut highway deaths;
Enact meaningful gun control legislation that would reduce crime and cut fatalities by thousands a year;
Fund stem cell research that could result in cures saving millions of lives;
Boost the minimum wage, helping to cut down on poverty which helps spawn violent crime and the deaths that spring from those acts;
Be less inclined to launch foolish wars, absence of which would save thousands of soldiers' lives- and quite likely moderate the likelihood of further terror acts.
Does anyone still wonder why the left embraces any cause - as fascist and disgusting it may be - provided it attacks our society? Could it be because of their hatred and despise for their fellow citizien that don't think like the left finds they should? Nha! Too simple, for sure.
# posted by Pedro Oliveira @ 3:56 PM 
