The end of social conservatism?

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 10:46 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 10:46

Mind you this is just a thought but there might be good news in last night's defeat. For all the talk of states rights and stopping the Obama agenda, there has been one thing missing in speeches today. No one's mentioning stopping the repeal of DADT, no one's talking about a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, no one's talking about destroying Roe v. Wade. The HCR bill is being dismissed based on economic terms not social ones which is promising to me at least.

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Thursday July 08, 2010 · 7:57 AM PDT

2010/07/08 · 07:57

I'm not 100% sure this may be the right place for this or even if it will make much sense but this has been something I have been thinking about for awhile.

I would argue that today we have so much information with three channels dedicated to American news (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News) we have at least two channels dedicated to world wide news (CNN International and BBC World) and there's too many channels dedicated to certain sections of the world (i.e. NHK World, Russia Today, and Al-Jazeera to name a few)

In addition to this we have on a broad scale, Facebook and Twitter to socially network with people with the same and different views on everything in our life. You can Tweet with people ranging from President Barack Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Also we have websites covering the political spectrum, favorite sports teams, and the main reason Al Gore invented the Internet....porn. (And yes I know what Al Gore meant by inventing the Internet, he helped appropriate the funds to allow for such a thing to be created.)

The question then becomes can Barack Obama and everyone who proceeds him in the Oval Office overcome the ever growing hyper-partisan lifestyle?

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The end of social conservatism?

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