I know it's old and all, but I just discovered Disenchanted off of Den Beste's elite blog-roll.
This post, for me, says it all: the DILEMMA I face on a daily basis. A stupid dilemma, if you really think about it, which is: what the hell do I call myself? (We should throw out all the labels at this point, anyway.)
I'm not strictly conservative, I'm certainly not right-wing ... I'm an ACTRESS, for God's sake ... I don't believe in social scolds, conservatives who feel the need to tell others the right way to live, people who lecture about morality, blah blah blah ... I hate that superior attitude ... I am pro-gay rights and gay-marriage, obviously ... but ... I believe with all my freakin' heart in small government ... I believe in a strong and aggressive foreign policy, I support completely the War on Terror, I hate hate-crime legislation and the abuse of affirmative action, and I hate the victim-ology of minority groups and how they dominate public discourse ... I believe in personal responsibility ... wait: WHO AM I?
I'm not a fundie right-winger. I'm not a hate-America-firster.
Read the post if you're in the same dilemma as I am. I love it.
Posted by sheilaI increasingly find that the so-called "religious fundies" aren't particularly interested in government-enforced morality anymore either.
Politics is complicated business, and doesn't lend itself to simple labels. We tend to simplify too much--even about the religious.
Posted by: Dean Esmay at July 29, 2003 12:57 AMYep.
I'm a socially-concerned fiscally conservative bleeding heart who thinks once having taken a weapons-safety course everyone should be given an unregistered rifle or shotgun or pistol and don't care if WMD's are never found in Iraq but hope we do not get involved in Liberia and since Puerto Rico won't let us use Vieques we should close it but gee can't we encourage some corporation to do something there so people keep jobs and a national ID is a horrible idea but the government does not have to establish one since businesses already are well on the road to it and re-importing drugs to save money is stupid the government should instead stand behind the pharmas with the message that if you don't want to defray development costs then you don't get the drugs which the Congress won't because the rest of the world would immediately yell about an American stick-up of poor defenseless people and beat on the pharmas to spread those costs around instead of making only US citizens pay and...
Phew, ran out of breath. I'll stop before I get started again.