I\u2019m glad I stopped caring about politics.<\/p>\n
Think of it: I was spared writing about the last legislative election, an event so vacuous it made reality TV seem interesting. If there was any serious discussion of an important national issue \u2014 the state economy, the level of control outside lobbying groups have over both parties but especially the DFL, the fact that the “Stadium Deal” is built on sand, Minnesota’s deteriorating education system, the impact of Governor Instead, we got a campaign of misrepresentations, exaggerations and outright lies. The DFL were by far the worst offenders, but the GOP field didn’t distinguish themselves either.<\/p>\n But hey, that’s Minnesota politics.<\/p>\n But then the fortieth anniversary ofRoe V. Wade\u00a0happened. \u00a0A sudden societal change in focus from eternal truths to personal convenience and a razor-thin definition of gender rights ended up in the massacre of tens of millions of humans whose only crime was not being able to pay taxes yet.<\/p>\n And the very air changed. Winter – the most wonderful time of the year – suddenly turned somber. You looked at the small children around you differently, like you look at Auschwitz survivors; miracles who somehow evaded a bloody gauntlet.<\/p>\n Obama struck that note in his moving speech at the Newtown memorial service, for another, much smaller group of child victims who at least got to live outside the womb for a little bit. Speaking for us all, he said: \u201cWe can\u2019t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.\u201d<\/p>\n Nice words, but somehow not enough. Not nearly enough.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when I figured I should write a blog post about it. During my 11-year career, every time some demented soul would defend the Democrats’ civil sacrament of Infanticide, I\u2019d get up on my soap box and let loose with a withering diatribe about abortion, the National Organization of Womyn and weak-kneed feminist-lobby-upsucking politicians. Did it about 130 times<\/a>, give or take.<\/p>\n And in every case the main effect was – nothing. \u00a0Certainly not the outcome I’d hoped for.<\/p>\n Still, I thought I\u2019d give it one more stab … er, chance.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s speech – which some saw as unrelated, but dead children are dead children are dead children, baby – was fine as far as it went, but it didn\u2019t go very far. Neither have any of the other responses I\u2019ve heard.<\/p>\nMessinger’s<\/del> Dayton’s tax plan outstate, the ongoing embarassment is Gopher football \u2014 I missed it.<\/p>\n