Change??

I just do not quite get it -- we elect a new President based on "change" -- and, the very first thing that happens, a group of folks in California LOSE hard earned Civil Rights .

Now, it seems the new administration-to-be is going to recycle all the old Dems. -- the ones who could not win an election. Is that really "change"?

Oh well, I do recall saying (a long time ago) that Obama was the least progressive of the two major candidates. After Hillary lost, I got behind Obama with all my heart and soul -- there was no other sensible choice.

Now, we will have to keep working to keep him from going into "neo-lib mode". Perhaps the dissolving economy will force some more progressive, more radical action -- if only to keep the ruling class from being deposed.

I don't think most folks in the USA can withstand a harsh economic downturn. In the first place, they would, according to their own rules, be branded as "losers". In the second, they might have to recognize some sort of "community" (beyond their Church). They might actually be forced to accept the fact that government can be useful, and discover the concept of "the Commons". In a time of scarcity the extreme individualism promoted by those who would keep us powerless can easily devolve into a nasty form of anarchy, where youth, strength, and ability to use a gun, might decide who lives or dies. Under those circumstances some folks might realize communal action would work better -- why in heck do you think governments formed in the first place?

Prop 8 has been a wonderful wake-up call. The truly American concept of "majority rule, minority rights", one of the absolute basic concepts of our great American Experiment, has been violated in a way that should be clear to EVERY minority.

Separation of Church and State is a founding, and very radical, for the times, basis of our Republic. "Equality" is enshrined in most all State Constitutions.

To allow ANYONES "religious scruples" to overide the civil rights of any other group is totally Un-American! This means Christians, Jews, Muslims, LDS, Hindus, etc., etc., etc.

We were founded as a secular republic, one that has become more and more democratic over time. It is always wrong for any majority to vote on the civil rights of any minority.

Of course, our society still limits the civil rights, the equality, of a MAJORITY -- WOMEN!

We can get into that one later -- it's too late/early right now.