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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 05:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
YES ON ONE claims a victory for the "little guy," according to Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.
The rest of the story here. (That's here: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/128048.html)
The rest of the story here. (That's here: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/128048.html)
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Date: 2009-11-04 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-04 12:10 pm (UTC)Oh, that's just the usual Bully-Without-Two-Brain-Cells response to anybody who has an opinion they don't agree with. I was several time invited to "leave America" for daring to have the Clearly Wrongheaded opinion that George W. Bush was a dangerous lunatic.
...and some of those folks might have left the state, had things gone elsewise. There was a powerful lot of fear working in this campaign.
What makes my head spin around is how all the folks who voted NO (clearly more than six of us) are now "bigots." Let's see... I voted to extend equality to minority (which, BTW, I shouldn't even have to vote on; it's a concept already covered in Maine law); the other side voted to violate the civil rights of that minority. Granting that nobody likes to be called a "bigot," I'm having a hard time seeing the NO folks wearing that particular hat.
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Date: 2009-11-04 12:41 pm (UTC)But this reinforces my belief that 'democracy', when it means "the majority get their way" (or even more "the vocal majority get their way") is nothing more than "mob rule". Or as someone else said, "democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch"...
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Date: 2009-11-04 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-04 05:19 pm (UTC)(And yes, I am British and live in Britain.)