"...right now, she seems to be merely an optimistic pragmatist like Ronald Reagan, someone who pays lip service to religious piety without being in the least wedded to it." I hope that's true, but I'm really not so sure I agree.
At any rate, I think you're confusing Camille Paglia with the bulk of American women, which is ludicrous. Most of the women who Palin's nomination have swayed to the right are swayed simply *because* she is a woman, and a mother, issues be damned. Frankly that describes most of the voting populace--on most issues they're ignorant, they just lap up the non-issues and distractions the media feeds them and base their decision on that, or they pick one hot-button issue like abortion that matters not a whit in the grand scheme of things and vote based on that. This democracy thing is a rip-off, especially in the age of the mainstream media.
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Date: 2008-09-13 12:46 pm (UTC)I hope that's true, but I'm really not so sure I agree.
At any rate, I think you're confusing Camille Paglia with the bulk of American women, which is ludicrous. Most of the women who Palin's nomination have swayed to the right are swayed simply *because* she is a woman, and a mother, issues be damned. Frankly that describes most of the voting populace--on most issues they're ignorant, they just lap up the non-issues and distractions the media feeds them and base their decision on that, or they pick one hot-button issue like abortion that matters not a whit in the grand scheme of things and vote based on that. This democracy thing is a rip-off, especially in the age of the mainstream media.