This is absolutely dreadful.

I've fallen into the terrible habit of posting very infrequently once again, and doing that makes Cantay very angry. Especially when he had promised further explanation of whatever it was that he'd meant to explain in his previous post, but cannot deliver because his poor brain has forgotten.

Alas, that means I have to talk about the election. Which means I have to toss out my hackneyed and overused thesis for why John Kerry lost. You listening, kids?

AMERICA IS TOO GODDAMN SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE.

Sorry. Didn't mean to yell. But I thought it was an important point, and everyone knows that important points have to be entirely capitalized, yes?

So anyway, what do I mean by socially conservative? Well, mostly on issues like accepting others' religions/non-religions; accepting others' sexuality; understanding and living in harmony with minorities; and treating women, minorities, homosexuals, and atheists properly and according them the same rights and such things.

It's a gray area, obviously; what would constitute equal rights or favoritism or what have you. The point is, however, that there are clear differences between the way that Sally the black lesbian atheist and Bob the WASP are perceived and treated in society.

It is for each individual to judge how correct and proper this is, as it is for each individual to judge a myriad of things. I personally believe that the non-male WASPs should be accorded with even more equal footing in most cases (I say most because many people believe that various forms of Affirmative Action would count as equal footing, but I oppose it).

The vast majority of Americans, however, disagree strongly with me for various reasons. An example can be seen in the 11/11 sweep that the state-constitutional amendments against gay marriage achieved in states that went for Bush like Kentucky and Mississippi as well as states that went for Kerry like Michigan and Oregon. The smallest margin that that sort of amendment won by in any of the eleven states was 14% (in Oregon). In Mississippi, it was 72%. Bush's margin of victory in Mississippi was only 20%. What does all of that mean? It means that Kerry was able to swing some socially conservative voters to his side based on things such as economic policy, but that there is only so much that populism can do. Look at Ohio, for example, where the race was made close by the fact that unemployment was especially high in that state; Kerry lost the state by 2%--gay marriage lost the state by 24%.

That's part of the reason that they say that the only Democrat that can win the presidency is a southern Democrat, since southern Democrats tend to be a tad bit more socially conservative. Because really, it doesn't matter if you make a big deal about the fact that you "hunt" if you're perceived as an anti-religion pro-faggot Democrat.

I'll cut myself off there for now. You all make sure to have a pleasant evening, hear?