I don't talk much about which candidate I prefer-I was taught as a kid not to do that...that asking about who one was planning to vote for, or who one did vote for was inappropriate.
Obviously, you don't consider having been taught something as a kid to be sufficient to keep your mind made up as an adult in other aspects of your approach to life. So your statement requests the question: Is this something you've considered and still agree with, of something you carry on with due to momentum?
I think there are two main reasons to hold your position. The most obvious one for most of the population is that zealots can be boors and there are enough boors around so that even if you're not a zealot you can push buttons that have already been rubbed raw.
The other reason is where I think the vehemence that many people hold your position really comes from. That is that if one is allowed (by social convention) to proclaim a position, one may also under some circumstances be compelled to. The 20th Century movement to decrease political patronage in favor of the civil service made that less relevant for a while, but the move in recent times for the government to outsource many of its services (and assign contracts politically) is pushing us back to the bad old days.
Personally, I don't see why someone as un-boorish as you and as close to anonymous as you are here should need to keep political opinions private; do you have other reasons I'm not considering?
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Date: 2004-02-13 01:17 am (UTC)Obviously, you don't consider having been taught something as a kid to be sufficient to keep your mind made up as an adult in other aspects of your approach to life. So your statement requests the question: Is this something you've considered and still agree with, of something you carry on with due to momentum?
I think there are two main reasons to hold your position. The most obvious one for most of the population is that zealots can be boors and there are enough boors around so that even if you're not a zealot you can push buttons that have already been rubbed raw.
The other reason is where I think the vehemence that many people hold your position really comes from. That is that if one is allowed (by social convention) to proclaim a position, one may also under some circumstances be compelled to. The 20th Century movement to decrease political patronage in favor of the civil service made that less relevant for a while, but the move in recent times for the government to outsource many of its services (and assign contracts politically) is pushing us back to the bad old days.
Personally, I don't see why someone as un-boorish as you and as close to anonymous as you are here should need to keep political opinions private; do you have other reasons I'm not considering?