His name isn't Mary Fallin. Best blog post yet...
Sorry. All kidding aside, I am endorsing Joe Dorman. I am voting for Joe Dorman. I couldn't be happier to be voting for him. He is NOT my ideal politician. He does not share my views on where America needs to go.
He is the bridge that Oklahoma needs to let the Red and Blue Oklahomans drop some misconceptions about their party of choice. He is pro-life and pro-gun (you are welcome Oklahoma). He's a small town Oklahoman who wears the D proudly because he is pro-Main Street as opposed to Wall Street.
I'm voting for Joe Dorman because the Democratic party is the party who cares about modern family values. That's right, Republicans, let's talk about the elephant in the room (pun intended). Democrats are the family party (unless your family is white, nuclear, straight, and Christian charismatic). Modern families are so different than the 1950's ideal at this point. We have so many issues. Single parent families need access to health care and other social services to pull themselves out of poverty. Women are working more than ever before and deserve to be in charge of their own reproductive rights. Gay families need the legal support of politicians to ensure that they have the legal rights to be families.
It's not fair to say that America looks differently now than when the Republican "family value" platform arose. It is more accurate to say that we are looking at all of America now and America is looking back demanding to be seen.
Mary Fallin is an anachronism. She is a strong, modern woman wrapped in a regressive ideology. She is a marker of the past that I wish was a harbinger of the future. She hides behind political ideologies that she believes will get her a victory and keep her in power a little while longer. She is willing to think more about state's rights than individual human rights. She is willing to minimize young women's roles in their own rights, because she is old enough and established to be unaffected. She wants to see Oklahoma's businesses succeed even while her people become hopeless and look elsewhere.
Mary Fallin is politics. She is what we all hate about it. She was for it before she was against it. She desires to win, to play the game, to succeed even when it might hinder the progress of our great state.
Please guys, I know you feel hopeless sometimes and feel like your voice doesn't matter and sometimes you might be right. But if you don't go vote on Tuesday and you want to come to me and bitch in the years to come, save it. I'm tired of hearing about how bad it is. I want to hear about how you mobilized and (hopefully not) failed. I want to hear about how we are going to fix it next time. I want to hear that you emailed your Congressman about what we are doing wrong today and how to save Oklahoma's tomorrow.
Go vote. Even if you don't agree with me. Go vote. Vote. Please. However, if you care about "family values," consider going for the new family values party. Consider going with the guys who are looking after all families. Vote Democrat on Tuesday.
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