The greatest satisfaction from most any type of writing comes from knowing that you have made someone aware of something important that he or she might otherwise never have known.
In politics, it is making people aware of what they are voting for, and the consequences of their votes.
All too often, voters cast their ballots for candidates who come across as, and actually are honest, caring people--but who are good people with terribly bad ideas.
Such a candidate is Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who has been surging in the polls. He is sincere, honest, caring, intelligent, hard-working.
All the very best of adjectives apply to Rick Santorum. He is a good man.
But I don't believe that many of those who have already voted for, or who are planning to vote for Rick Santorum, can possibly be aware of just how extreme are some of the policies and proposals he would pursue once entrenched in the White House, with free access to a bully pulpit.
I doubt that many of Santorum's supporters are aware that his socially conservative views go well beyond his pro-life stance. Rick Santorum is on record as opposing all forms of contraception. He opposes contraception--period.
It boggles the mind to consider the ramifications of a Commander In Chief urging all citizens to forego birth control.
Hopefully, as the Republican field of Presidential candidates is winnowed down to a single survivor, a nominee--a prying, persistent press will continue to cause the candidates to reveal, in their own words, where they actually stand on all the issues.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Nice guy, Rick Santorum, but not at this time of economic crisis. Electing a devout Catholic or devout Mormon such as Romney for that matter is not what I would like to see for us - they both have baggage on the religious front. In the extreme, such faith could prove dangerous for our health and safety as a nation (George W. Bush claimed that God told him to go and end the tyranny Iraq.). Of the two, however, I have to go with the Mormon, who also may be able to breathe new life into a sluggish economy and chart bold, new directions for incentivizing business growth and investment. Bottom line is that we have become a nation in decline, partly because of our educational system's failure to prepare our youth for the challenges of today and tomorrow, partly because of squandering our human and financial resources in being the policeman of the world, and partly because of having subjugated our democratic government to the interests of big corporations (having become a nation of, by and for...).
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