Across the great divide
I agree with 99% of this piece by Michael Kinsley addressing the “red state-ers.” Especially these conclusions:
“It’s true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose and where gay relationships have civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values – as deplorable as I’m sure they are – don’t involve any direct imposition on you. We don’t want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same sex, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?”
“To put it crudely, everyone wants some of the things blacks got from the civil rights movement: sympathy, publicity, occasional preferential treatment and a general ability to put everybody else on the defensive… But be fair…Conservatives shouldn’t assert the prerogatives of victory and then claim the compensations of defeat as well.”
