You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send
the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card. I suggest you use the address
for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
PS make sure you use that link above or choose the pulldown of
Donate--Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular "Donate
Online .
markwjam
09-22-2008, 09:16 PM
I'd like to suggest instead;
that you start to find out why Sarah Palin has such appeal;
and why it is that millions and millions of working people keep voting for a party that screws them...
the best resource I've found to understand what's been going on in America for the past many years would be to read the book:
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF AMERICA
by Thomas Frank...
read it, and then let's start discussing how this can be countered.
Mark B.
Instead of (in addition to?) us all sending around more emails about
how horrible she is, let's all make a donation to Planned Parenthood.
In Sarah Palin's name.
And here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her
name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has
been made in her honor. Here's the link to the Planned
You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send
the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card. I suggest you use the address
for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
PS make sure you use that link above or choose the pulldown of
Donate--Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular "Donate
Online .
kpage9
09-23-2008, 10:05 AM
No reason not to do both.
Kathy
I'd like to suggest instead;
that you start to find out why Sarah Palin has such appeal;
and why it is that millions and millions of working people keep voting for a party that screws them...
the best resource I've found to understand what's been going on in America for the past many years would be to read the book:
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF AMERICA
by Thomas Frank...
read it, and then let's start discussing how this can be countered.
Mark B.
Sara S
09-24-2008, 10:45 AM
I did In Home Support work for awhile, which is caring for old, poor, disabled people, and several of them voted Republican; I couldn't figure it out, since they were so clearly voting against their own interests. Just before the election in which Michael Huffington was running (for Rep? Senator? I forget) one lady said she was going to vote for him; I asked her why, since it seemed clear that his only "qualification" was that he was rich, and her answer was "Well, I'd like to be rich."
Tom Tomorrow brilliantly defined this mindset as "misidentification with the economic elite."
I'm sure there are more subtle and intelligent reasons for this; I'll check out that book.
Sara
S.
I'd like to suggest instead;
that you start to find out why Sarah Palin has such appeal;
and why it is that millions and millions of working people keep voting for a party that screws them...
the best resource I've found to understand what's been going on in America for the past many years would be to read the book:
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF AMERICA
by Thomas Frank...
read it, and then let's start discussing how this can be countered.
Mark B.
podfish
09-25-2008, 09:24 AM
Jonathan Haidt has had some really interesting things to say along these lines - he probably wouldn't state it the way I'm about to here, but he shows that people actually aren't voting against their interests; if it looks like that to you it's because you define "their interests" differently than they do.
In particular, he proposes some categories of values, one of which is 'purity', another is 'fairness'. To me, and I suspect to many Waccos, fairness is a paramount virtue and something to strive for, while purity may be nice but doesn't really rank as a "virtue". If you find kosher laws to be an archaism, or think that gut-level negative reactions against gay sex are irrelevant to granting everyone the same political rights, you're showing low sensitivity to purity as a value. But there are a lot of people who would put a world that's 'pure' ahead of one that's fair. Their votes prove it. They are endorsing those who also put 'purity' out there as a primary goal. I've always resisted arguments that are based on the premise that huge numbers of people are just being stupid. Haidt's analysis is extremely well reasoned and I find it very compelling.