11.04.2008 / Another Facebook Explanation - 3rd Party, GOP Failure & Abortion

To my red and blue friends who are appalled I voted 3rd party, and, who were upset that my status read “I hope the GOP gets utterly owned in order to (hopefully) redirect them from their absolutely intolerable stupidity the last 8 years. And, yes, I’m still saved.”

The topic at hand was Dems supposed socialism (supposed as in unique only to them, not existing with the Republican party, etc), other destructive economic policies and abortion. (Even though two of my points are related to the economy, my response is primarily focused on abortion, since that was the main swaying factor for a McCain vote with many of my friends.)

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I think you’re missing my point.

1) The Republicans have been the source of devastating economic policies over the last 8 years.
2) The Republicans have implemented the largest socialistic projects in decades over the last 8 years, not to mention the largest nationalization of business since the Great Depression.
3) They’ve been in office 20 of the last 28 years and Roe V. Wade still stands.

If Christians want to stop abortion we should back a candidate that will actually work to stop it. Our line of thinking that voting Republican is equivalent to being anti-abortion is complete folly. Colson talks about the Republican party being the first party to latch onto Evangelicalism’s “morals” in order to get votes. They pander and pander so we can feel good about “morals” being nationalized.

Look around. That isn’t happening. My point is that if Christians want that to happen then we need to stop thinking Republican = godly and actually look at candidates, who are on the ballot, who represent what we are looking for. There were at least 2 this election, possibly 3, on the official ballot that are infinitely closer to representing Christian values than McCain/Palin ever would.

But did Christians vote for them? No. Why? Because they’ve been brainwashed to believe that voting Republican is next to godliness. It’s absolutely retarded.

And, yes, I completely, utterly, absolutely reject the assertion that by not voting McCain, I’m supporting Obama. In no way am I supporting Obama. I’m supporting another candidate who is truly anti-abortion, has expressed unequivocal support for a bill already presented in the House that outlines specific legislation for declaring fetuses at certain ages as human beings, thus making it illegal to kill them without due process of the law.

As far as I can tell, the mainstream Republican ticket’s definition of anti-abortion consists of name calling, demonizing and polarizing those who are pro-choice. This is not a path to solving the problem, it’s a recipe to continue to hang the carrot in front of Evangelicals to get votes that once cast will have no bearing on actually overturning Roe V. Wade.

(You may not agree with declaring fetuses as humans, thus making it illegal to kill them, but I argue that proposing substantive concepts that can be argued, debated and (hopefully) ultimately negotiated to both parties satisfaction is much more productive than the name calling, fear mongering and denigrating that currently exists. This is becoming of elementary school playground tactics, not presumably intelligent adults attempting to not only navigate the fact that, if left alone, an egg and a sperm cell typically divide thus becoming fetuses then infants then cute little babies, bratty two-year olds and hopefully productive, functioning adults, but also to decide when and how and who should have the power to determine when that chain gets broken. I mean seriously folks, doesn’t that burden take your breath away?! Doesn’t it get you beyond name calling and mud slinging? If it doesn’t you should be absolutely ashamed! And that goes for both pro-choice and pro-lifers.)

So, yes, I hope the GOP gets its clocked cleaned. Not just so they can get back to basic/pragmatic things of fiscal responsibility and limited government, but also, so Evangelicals can hopefully realize that there is a tremendous amount of naivety and hypocrisy in our current view of the political system, especially as it relates Republicans vs. Democrats. Not to mention the embarrassing fact that we continue to get played like the geeky, zit faced kid holding vain hopes of being accepted by the cool kids every four years.

I hope that makes sense!

Respectfully,

Brandon

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