I, for one [s]cower it utter terror[/s] dance like a child in [s]torturous frustration[/s] wondrous rapture at the prospect of visiting the [s]repressive gulag[/s] delightful utopia of this [s]dystopian nightmare[/s] wonderful corner of [s]hell[/s] heaven.
*Edited by [s]moderator[/s] Verbal. Original post did not align with the nature of [s]The Spa[/s] my opinions.
Seriously, the Spa is a good idea, and I understand the need for edits, but I think someone got a little over-zealous in their policing (I appreciate that some of it was light-hearted). I suggest that deleting, rather than inserting alternate wording, might be the best route.
It seems this thread has died. Is there nothing more to say about being a moderate democrat?
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Hey... pssst.... that's an l (as in luscious) at the end of my name, not an i I get this thread was on being a "moderate Democrat", but what about just being a decent human being. Like others, I'm no fan of our current POTUS. I will not vote for him should he choose to run for reelection in 2020. I was once a Republican, but I left when I still lived in California and was harassed about why same-sex marriage was a bad thing (which it's not, for the record.) The insane arguments I heard were enough for me to say enough. I now have no party affiliation and I intend to keep it that way. I've always felt that we should vote for the best candidate, regardless of what party they are connected to. Even if Trump had run as a Democrat, I still would not have voted for him becasue I didn't feel in any way he was the best candidate (more like the worst). I feel history will not reflect kindly on him and he could become the worst president ever.
Incidentally, I'm not a moderate Democrat, although I once thought myself so. Today, things that seem utterly reasonable to me [pollution controls, universal health care, civil liberties] have been abandoned by the Overton Window, to the point that I'm pretty far out on the left end of the spectrum. To me, I'm entirely reasonable, and have thought things through to a reasonable conclusion, but the zeitgeist says I'm not reasonable, I'm a flaming liberal (used as a pejorative). So be it.
The whole political spectrum in Canada is to the left of that in the US, so it is easy to classify myself as a moderate Democrat were I an American. I do not believe in the GOP's tax cuts for the rich and trickle down economics. I am for gender equality including equal pay for equal work and all that is outlined in most human rights legislation. I do not believe that religion should be mixed into politics and that the values of one group should be forced on all. There should be a strict separation of church and state. I am for freedom of choice regarding abortions. I am against capital punishment. I think that health care should not be a for profit industry and there should be a single payer system that covers everyone as in Canada. If you want more than that coverage, you should be able to buy insurance that covers that. I think that no one should be bankrupted by a catastrophic illness in their family and that seniors' drugs should be covered by a government program. I believe in much more stringent gun control than is the norm in the US. No one needs an AK47 to go hunting. I believe that there should be more control of political contributions in elections.
So, I am a moderate Democrat Canadian.
I'm a little concerned about the level of micro-aggressions that have been circulating in the spa. Perhaps we could create another forum that prohibits micro aggressions as well as celebrates religious tolerance.
Someone used the term "Hallelujah" which is an obviously culturally and insensitive attack on non Judeo-Christian religious beliefs.
If someone uses such a culturally insensitive word then they should be forced to offer alternatives, such as equivalents in all the major world religions.
I suggest the creation of a "safespace" forum where we can all feel safe from these intolerable micro-aggressions.
