I couldn't do but a handful of minutes at a time. It got better once the candidates began talking, but not much. It was like everything that kind of seems fake and weird about Christian conservatism. It was the sappy Christian Micheal Bolton but worse-somehow-sounding music, the practically 30 minutes of propaganda stuff up front, and, I dunno, the whole idea that the forum was being run by uterus policers and homophobes.
It's not a bag I'm in. And if it's your bag, okay. But it's too much church in my state for me. I think Rick Santorum is especially good in this kind of forum, and I'm really surprised that with all the "retail-politicking" he's done in Iowa, and the genuineness he has in the Christian-conservative vein, that he doesn't have better poll numbers.
The bullshit about the left taking over the culture makes me feel especially weird. I don't feel like the left has taken over shit. Maybe we made some gains in not having people riducule, bully, and inflict nonsense on some of the least of these--our children--who happen to be LGBT*. But it's not enough. Their equating "liberty" with dominant Christian culture dictating how everyone ultimately ends up having to front to manage makes me afraid. When they talk about "fighting back", they are talking about discriminating against queers and atheists and pagans and other people who are...just like me. Maybe they think about it as "saving" people like me.
I'd rather be saved from people like these. (World where people believe deeply wrong things? Um--Repubitopia? OFFS. I just can't. I don't even.)
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