So you have a blue marker and a red marker…if you think you can see where the lines are drawn, go ahead and color away.

Republicans seem so often to prioritize economics and taxation over other issues. I would never argue that money and income aren’t big issues, but there are a lot of important issues, all important. And some, like Civil Liberties and social justice issues really sing to me.

At any rate, I read THIS ARTICLE in the New York Times a few weeks ago, and wanted to recommend it very highly to anyone reading this blog and especially those for whom the economy is issue number one. When you say that Democrats are going to take your money away and tax the hell out of you and bog everything down with red tape and big government, better READ THIS ARTICLE for it may shed some new light on stubborn opinions holding fast in murky depths.

Reading further, I found Mr. Toad’s “Politics, Tribalism, Religion – the Usual Light Relief” post and comments quite interesting. Here’s a sample:

“I have never entirely understood how Evangelical Christians can almost invariably end up as Republicans, apart from the unavoidable conclusion that for a great many of them terms like ‘the love of Jesus Christ’ seems to rather oddly translate as ‘vicious, petty, small-minded bigotry’. I have my doubts as to whether that was quite what a bearded Jewish hippy would have had in mind, to be honest.”
—Mr. Toad