Elect / shun

Voting to retain three of the Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled for equal marriage rights was the only reason I voted in this fall's election at all. It was a strategic mistake on "our" side not to campaign for them, in the name of "not politicizing the judiciary." That ship had f'in' sailed. Lots of outside money came into the state specifically to defeat gay marriage--and the voters motivated by that issue also likely voted for the return of Terror Braindead and the takeover by the Reps.

So once again the Dums refuse to fight and are to their never-ending surprise defeated in the fight. As for their idea of taking the high road--by all means. But not when the other side has already mined it with IEDs.

Life in one backward state of the Idiot Empire goes on. The election has exactly zero impact on what I consider my real political activity--what I do as an activist, not as a voter.