FRC helps me know who not to vote for

• November 1, 2014
• politics  
• religion  
• christianity  
• wingnuttia  

Yesterday I received an FRC Action Alert email (i.e., Family Research Council) that wasn’t the usual request to pray the gay away. Instead it directed me to electionforum.org that would help me “vote my values”. Which is Christian dog whistle meaning “vote for people who will legislate to shove Jebus/Jesus/God/Yahweh down everyones throats”.

I was ecstatic. Unlike most email from the FRC that link was something I could actually use. Specifically, I could use it to avoid inadvertently voting for theocrats intent on subverting the secular principles our nation was founded upon.

I currently reside in Santa Clara, CA. Not surprisingly the electionforum.org recommendations for me were 100% Republican candidates. At least where the party affiliation matters. Where the political party is not listed (e.g., California Supreme Court) their advice tells me who not to vote for.

I despise people who mindlessly vote for the political party they belong to. It is fine to use party affiliation as a tie breaker if you can’t otherwise decide between candidates. But to use party affiliation as your sole or even primary consideration for who to vote for marks you not as a citizen but an unthinking member of a tribe. A tribe member likely to be used as cannon fodder.

Sadly todays Republican party has been suffering from prion disease since the 1980’s when Saint Ronald Reagan was elected. The disease hasn’t been treated and the Republican party has entered stage four wherein the crazy is most pronounced and a peaceful death is, hopefully, imminent. We should do what we can to hasten that end by not voting for a Republican candidate unless the other candidates are certifiably insane.