OT: Palin, Religious Theocracy, and Voting
I should really leave politics alone. Believe it or not I do have several excellent Christian and Republican clients and this is a blog on therapy and Paganism, not politics. However, the following topic continues to bug me and I have writer’s itch over it.
Somehow, I’d become resigned to a non-choice between the two corporate parties. Lately in the Bush govt. it has seemed to be primarily a matter of corporate domination and less so one of religion.
In this context I was heavily contemplating a vote for Cynthia McKinney with the Green Party — a candidate closer to my own positions with little chance of winning — rather than holding my nose and voting for the Democratic candidate as the least objectionable realistic choice.
Back in 2004 when I voted for Kerry, and then watched as he didn’t even try to contest Ohio, I finally realized nothing good will come of either major party. I realized we have to build an alternative by voting for what we truly desire even if there is no near-term chance of winning.
Now however comes this article entitled A Palin Theocracy, and ones like it, uncovering Sarah Palin’s extreme views and likely Dominionist tendencies.
So now I’m weakening — I’m once again contemplating the sick choice of the Obama ticket. At least with Obama we are only owned by business. We may maintain a separation of church and state. We may not have to worry about our religous freedoms.
Yuck.