Do major parties whisper about KulturKampf now?

The two major campaigns may be soft-pedalling most sexual and religious issues,
at least in public,
at least until Nov. 2,
according to the Chron.

So-called "cultural" issues don't seem to lure many undecideds,
whom neither side dares to offend in the final days of a close contest.

Protestant reactionaries will support Bush whether he mentions their pet manias or not,
since they know he supports them.

Among queers, liberals, secularists, individualists, progressives, and fellow freedom-seekers, MOST will vote for Kerry, even if they don't trust him, since four more years of Bushism horrifies them. (Yet a few Marxists will try to help Bush win.) So Kerry has no need to mention these thorny issues.

For more on this campaign tactic, please see James Sterngold's
news analysis in the October 17 S.F. Chron.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/17/MNGQ89B8LS1.DTL


After Nov. 2, partisan discourse may rapidly switch to demands for recounts, charges of electoral fraud, and similar disgusting replays of November/December 2000.

And later, what about the Congressional elections of 2006? Several states will have voted on hate amendments before then; so, in those states, the same-sex marriage issue probably won't be useful to Republican candidates. How many times can they ride the same donkey's corpse?

In Massachusetts and California, and possibly New York state,
the future of the marriage issue seems harder to predict.


-- Turtle
SF, CA
Sunday night
17 Shocktober 2004