Various Things In Brief

[poliphilo]

Ailz's mother has a cold, Ailz has a cold and I'm doing my best to avoid getting one. Echinacea is the answer. That's my belief. 

I felt fairly ropey yesterday (because I was fighting getting a cold). I suggested we had lunch in Morrisons (while we were out shopping) because I didn't feel like fixing a meal.

I keep scanning the headlines to see if Lord McAlpine is in them. 

I'm pleased about the US election. People (journalists and LJ friends) are saying the Republican Party is paying the price for signing a pact with the Christian Right. It worked for them for a while, but now demographics are against them. As someone said, America is "running out of angry white men".  That's part of the story. Also Romney was a lousy candidate. I don't think much of Obama either but at least he knows Iran has a sea coast. 

RIP Clive Dunn. A very funny man and a very decent man too by all accounts. Dad's Army wasn't particularly well written but it had the most wonderful cast. 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

As a political junkie, with a ringside seat these past four years, I disagree. Do you honestly believe that the Christian Right drove 100% of the African American vote into the Democratic camp? Do you honestly believe that the Christian Right caused the Willard to lose the Hispanic vote even among the traditionally Republican Cuban community? In the past, the Christianist crusade against abortion and homosexuality has been very popular among Latinos but not this year.

That loss among Hispanics alone cost Romney the swing states he needed to win. What killed him was the deadly embrace of the Tea Party, launched by a hedge-fund trader and funded by filthy-rich John Birchers like the Koch brothers. The Christian Right is at best a baleful influence on our body politic but they shouldn't be scapegoated to protect the real criminals, here.

The racism, the bigotry, the nativism, the aggressive ignorance, the anti-tax and anti-government jihad, this is what killed the Republicans and that platform came straight out of the Confederate South, the Republican parties last stronghold. Thankfully, it is no longer enough to win a national election.