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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - The Liberation of Social Issues: Halliburton vs. Healthcare
The dissociation between social and political views is finally coming apart; the republican populist story is being pried away from social issues like gay-marriage and the death penalty. Democrats in Wisconsin held onto the governorship, and took back both the State House and Senate. But, the same voters who elected them also choose in two referendums to make a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and to reenact the death penalty. Many democrats who supported the amendments were nonetheless elected. Although I'm troubled by the institutionalized discrimination we've just voted into the constitution, I'm at least a little consoled by the fact that politically disastrous politicians can't hide behind social issues. I haven't heard a single mention of "values voters" in any news coverage I've seen or read. People realize that the political actions and laws of conservatives really aren't as compassionate as they claim to be; we're running a massive deficit but its not going to universal healthcare, it's going to halliburton.
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