After finishing The Running Mate there are several political and literary ideas that can be discussed. One political idea was mentioned only once, in passing, but in was very poignant and I kept thinking about it the next few days. The situation comes up as Senator Charlie Martin is going to meet the Senate Majority leader and is bring along his homosexual and HIV positive press secretary, Hilton Devereaux. Martin wants to walk despite the frigid temperature and Devereaux’s protests.
“Come on, Hilton don’t be such a sis–” Charlie stopped abruptly, turned crimson.
“You’re such a liberal,” Hilton said.
I believe Hilton uncovered a serious truth about most members of the Democratic party. They are so worried about not being offensive to various minorities that they actually end up being less sensitive to minorities. It is backwards discrimination. An example would be crime. There are some Democrats who would believe almost no Africa-Americans are guilty of the crimes they commit but are merely victims of their situation. Holding such expectations of responsibility, I think is more discriminatory to do this then something like racial profiling. The same thing could be said about providing clean needles to drug addicts. If we are going to spend taxpayer’s money on people who are breaking the law, why not make specific lanes for people who are driving under the influence. No one who even propose the latter and yet the same logic doesn’t hold true for clean needles because Democrats do not want to discriminate in anyway against anyone. (Just to set the record straight the government should provide clean needles because it works, and preventing HIV is a heck of a lot less expensive than treating it.)
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Well if it isn't Mr. come on my blog and disagree with me about stuff then write about things I cant disagree with on your own blog. Seriously, I came over here to pick a fight and your critiquing the democratic parties preferential discrimination. Well, maybe this means your actually changing Aldis, because I wholeheartedly agree with you on this point. Especially in this age when people are paying less and less attention to things like race and gender, I often feel like the people paying the most attention are the ones trying to protect against discrimination. As I've always said, by the end of my lifetime the government will have been more racist to me via affirmative action than any racial minority in the country.
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