State elections
Apr. 8th, 2026 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ene_thingI dont know how to react to the bits of campaigning I have been seeing. Yeah for the state supreme court election result. Hilarity at the other candidate saying the position wasnt a political one during her campaign, yet her "watch party" clips were all about the political party that supported her and their hopes for other state positions in the future!
Shaking my head at the whole state and its political shifts. Part of the problem, I think, is that some people think the political parties still stand for the same things they stood for 20 or even 40 years ago, or wish they did because they agree with some, but not others, and they used to be in better alignment with the state's reality, tendencies, and local understanding of the world's contemporary reality.
Issues just starting to come up are inadequate school funding, data center politics.(The state or subsections, cities, etc. made the mistake of trying to sneak them in, with neither adequate information from the data center businesses or populace input or the least bit of environmental impact study due to the lack of information or honesty.)
This election on the wider scale was yet another yes to women's rights, more specifically prochoice on abortion. In the past, some people here have voted Republican almost solely because they were anti abortion, but as in the past, limits were immediately made too extreme. And as has usually been the case in anti abortion states, medical assistance to pregnant women and their children is pitiful to non existant. Regardless of the excuses, the practical reality is forcing women to get back alley abortions, risk their lives by going without medical care, and be pressured into putting their babies up for adoption. I am most offended when the excuse is Christian based views on the sanctity of life, because abandoning women and risking their lives in the process is not the least bit Christian.
More generally, I am increasingly disallusioned about our justice system. The current abuse and politicalization of the nations Supreme Court is just the most recent and obvious of the problems that our lax attention and stupidity has allowed to develop. Even the terms our newspeople use to describe the justices 'progressive", "conservative", "liberal" say politics at every use, all the while everyone talking about fair and unbiased....not. How many times do statistics have to show the racial bias of death sentences and other severe sentences before anyone will admit to a problem? And the utter stupidity of treating young teens with no comprehension of cause and effect or consequences as adults. Could we possibly create hardened criminals any faster than by being so cruel to children at their most impressionable age? We have learned a lot in 250 years, but in some ways, we are still stuck or going back to our roots, when the English King thought that his own loyal people in the colonies needed to be controlled by punishment and force of arms, because it never occured to him that that was the very definition of a tyrant.
Shaking my head at the whole state and its political shifts. Part of the problem, I think, is that some people think the political parties still stand for the same things they stood for 20 or even 40 years ago, or wish they did because they agree with some, but not others, and they used to be in better alignment with the state's reality, tendencies, and local understanding of the world's contemporary reality.
Issues just starting to come up are inadequate school funding, data center politics.(The state or subsections, cities, etc. made the mistake of trying to sneak them in, with neither adequate information from the data center businesses or populace input or the least bit of environmental impact study due to the lack of information or honesty.)
This election on the wider scale was yet another yes to women's rights, more specifically prochoice on abortion. In the past, some people here have voted Republican almost solely because they were anti abortion, but as in the past, limits were immediately made too extreme. And as has usually been the case in anti abortion states, medical assistance to pregnant women and their children is pitiful to non existant. Regardless of the excuses, the practical reality is forcing women to get back alley abortions, risk their lives by going without medical care, and be pressured into putting their babies up for adoption. I am most offended when the excuse is Christian based views on the sanctity of life, because abandoning women and risking their lives in the process is not the least bit Christian.
More generally, I am increasingly disallusioned about our justice system. The current abuse and politicalization of the nations Supreme Court is just the most recent and obvious of the problems that our lax attention and stupidity has allowed to develop. Even the terms our newspeople use to describe the justices 'progressive", "conservative", "liberal" say politics at every use, all the while everyone talking about fair and unbiased....not. How many times do statistics have to show the racial bias of death sentences and other severe sentences before anyone will admit to a problem? And the utter stupidity of treating young teens with no comprehension of cause and effect or consequences as adults. Could we possibly create hardened criminals any faster than by being so cruel to children at their most impressionable age? We have learned a lot in 250 years, but in some ways, we are still stuck or going back to our roots, when the English King thought that his own loyal people in the colonies needed to be controlled by punishment and force of arms, because it never occured to him that that was the very definition of a tyrant.
