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Originally posted by Adder
So re-electing Bush wouldn't bother your conscience, eh?
As sympathetic as I am to your point, it would certainly bother mine.
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Not nearly as much as voting for someone who, sincerely or not, panders to those who think it is acceptable to rob my fellow citizens of their civil and human rights to bolster their popularity. But I guess some things are more important than trying to change a long history of oppression and discrimination and protecting people from the denial of equal rights under the law.
You know how we all want to think "gee, back in the '50s and '60s, I would never have stood by while people perpetuated those separate but equal Jim Crow laws that treated black folk as second class citizens, 'cause it was obviously wrong, so I'd have been one of the [minority] who stood up and fought for what was right and just and refused to compromise (or let the people whose policies I endorse with my vote compromise) for the sake of short-term convenience and popularity"? Well, we, too, have that opportunity. What are you going to do with it?
