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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.

Oct 9 03: rare political moment

I’m kind of afraid to call my mother back home in NoCal because—as all who know and love her will agree—she will doubtless have a great number of impassioned things to say about the recent elections there. Elections in which, apparently, only 49% of the registered voters turned up to register an opinion. I think that statistic bothers me even more than its result. And I guess it bears out the old truism that we get the government we deserve.

Perhaps needless to say, if there were any lingering questions about my moving back to San Francisco anytime soon, you may now consider them answered.

[UPDATE: I don’t remember where I got the 49% figure above, but it has been brought to my attention that it’s seriously wrong. It was more like 70%, which is impressive. Was the outcome of the election a wise one? I don’t know, but at least it was reached by an engaged electorate. I feel better about that part now.]

Moving on, let’s consider something of larger import than Arnold: the Republican Party’s plans for the nation as a whole. Kevin Drum at Calpundit has put up an analysis of the Texas Republican Party platform of 2000 which is well worth reading. It’s not the manifesto for the national party, but it is the manifesto of a significant faction within it—one with increasing clout. Tom DeLay has signed off on this. You should be aware of what it says.

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Hello my sweet, the link, methinks, doesn’t work. The platform will have to wait. Alas.

posted by pablo, Oct 10 03 9:10 AM

Well, it does now.

posted by Andrew, Oct 10 03 3:07 PM

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