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Originally Posted by tspikes51
I don't mind Democrats being disappointed that their candidate lost, and I can understand that they're upset. I just don't like the fact that some don't realize that it's not the end of the world, and that the majority of voters did vote for Bush, so he did win fairly and justly. It's the fact that their claims are not backed well, and voted Kerry in the first place because "he isn't Bush." I didn't intend this to be a political discussion, or else I would have put it in Tilted Politics. You took an extremely small part of my post that was pretty insignifigant to its meaning as a whole, and turned it into a major pivot point. Thanks. This thread will now be off-topic as a political discussion.
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Well, you can try to weasel out of the words that you're responsible for, but I think you're espousing a philosophy that mirrors social darwinism. You talk about we "need atheletes, street sweepers, truck drivers, and what have you" in our society, and that is true to some degree, but the opportunities for people to decide for themselves what they want to become is highly influenced by policy decisions. Maybe you've never lost your job from a factory because of policies that help companies leave the US to work in China. Maybe you never had to grow up in a community where over 1/3 of the population is behind bars and primarily black. Maybe you never had to try to work around barriers to becoming the person that you wanted to be because you had adequate access to education, your parents had enough money to feed and clothe you, and you found yourself happily employed in a job that satisfies you.
I think there's a reason that you are writing about losing and having adequate holes in society to plug everyone into, and I think the connection is that you don't realize how much politics dictate opportunity. If you believe that most people only voted for Kerry because he "isn't Bush", then I think you have a bad beat on the issues that millions of people care about and would have liked to have been addressed in the next four years.