Why I vote Democrat.

I was on Facebook talking to a friend who is voting for Romney though not entirely happy.
She is voting more against Obama than for her party.
I think that's been the rule of thumb for a lot of conservative voters. They don't like liberalism but their party has been high-jacked by extremism.
Romney would have done much better to run with the views he had as the Governor of a blue state.
I lived there and we kind of got used to a Republican Governor in the land of Kennedy after Bill Weld. BTW, I'm not totally high on Obama either but will vote for him. I thought he could have been a great progressive one term president with sweeping changes.  I also think his reaching across the aisle drove the right further right to get away. Obama had a literal hand in creating the silliness that is Teabaggery.
My friend is a conservative Christian and is angered that her Christian friends are against Romney because he  is a Mormon. She likened this to the anti Catholic sentiment when Kennedy ran.
This got me thinking.
Kennedy was a privileged son of an ambitious man too. But that base was all about what FDR (Considered a traitor to his class) created. As I say, I lived in New England and benefited personally from the old money liberals who thought money was to be used for education, medicine, the arts, and social welfare.
My son had the best medicine, education, and is now getting a full scholarship to become a jazz musician. This literally wouldn't have happened in most other parts of the country.
 Mitt is from a world I saw out there too.
When I drove limousine for hedge fund managers and had a regular visits between investment companies, banks, Harvard Business school , and airfields to awaiting private jets.
The real interest there was maximizing money.
I overheard many discussions about labor as an expense that could be cut.
To them it was a line on a ledger sheet. To me, it was a community of Americans who just wanted to work. That's why I vote Democratic.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with extreme wealth, I just don't think it benefits the average American to have that mentality making policy and law.

Why I stopped arguing with my dog.

I had an epiphany the other day. Well that's not strictly true. More like, a creeping suspicion became fully realized the other day.
I forget that humans are the product of evolution and part of the animal kingdom. (This is debated by one of the groups  I will be discussing in this post.)  No offense to any Neanderthal Americans out there, we apparently have bit of Neanderthal DNA in us. But at one point in our history, Neanderthal and Cro -Magnon lived together. Neanderthal died out but Cro-Magnon flourished and became us.

We are still evolving and seem to be at a crossroads again.  The latest hallmarks of development in humanity are forward thinking, progressiveness, open mindedness, definitely more advanced. The old version of humans?  The neo neanderthals? Fearful, violent, superstitious, and lets be honest, dumber. So my epiphany? We've been arguing with another species. Ham Adams was born out of this impulse.
Now I see the silliness of it. It's like arguing with my dog.
It's silly to get mad or expect reason instead of a steamy turd on the living room carpet. If you are reading this and say to yourself, "Ham, I didn't evolve from no monkey." Sorry, you are part of the evolutionary dead end group.  If you are counting on an invisible man in the sky, astrology, or some other form of magical thinking to intercede on your behalf? Dead end.
Think life and happiness is all about the obscene acquisition of green bits of paper? Dead end.
Think weaker members of the tribe should be left to fend for themselves, there's only enough for me!! Dead end.
Think color of skin, sexuality, or superstitions different from yours matter? Dead end.
Think you should pray for me? Well. Thanks. I'll think for you.
Unlike homosexuality, for some this may be a choice. I know for me evolution means finding myself  embarrassed by my neolithic roots once in while. So at first, evolution seemed more a choice but like many things that frighten cave people, thought inspires more and more thought. That used to scare me too. And there may even have been a time in my life when I may have wanted the new information to stop and turn it all over to the lord. Now I'm happy and comfortable with the ever increasing darkness that comes with ever increasing light.

 Not sure how the Neo Neahnderthals'll die out. I'm guessing dietary, fatty bacon & chicken sandwiches etc. or hopefully shoot each other with those guns they seem to love so much.

So  Modern man, thank you for fire, the wheel, and the other developments of the last 30,000 yrs, but you're outdated. We need to go to different planets, cure cancer; end hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and can't use a species that panics at every new thing that comes along. Like the Neanderthals before you, we will carry some of your DNA with us. (Although a more advanced model than you we are still human and will fuck and even have a baby or two with morons) But you've served your purpose and belong in a diorama in a museum somewhere.  Not in public office or in serious debate.  There, there. Don't be sad!
You are going to a magic kingdom with rides to eat fried dough with Jesus for eternity after you all die out. Okay?