It’s been ages since I blogged here. It’s mostly because pregnancy and childbirth and now infant-rearing are taking up so much of my energy that it deserved its own blog, but even that has lost steam as my window of uninterrupted time not devoted to either work, vocation, family or homemaking has become smaller and smaller.
But during a recent housecleaning, I found this gem from October of 2000, that I’d written during a conversation with a few folks about the choices we faced that year:
I mean, really; the fractiousness of multipartisanship would lead to the worst gridlock ever. When the democrats were hard liberal and the GOP was strictly to the right, nothing got accomplished; but if any one of those parties had been in complete power, we would have steamrolled into an existence that would have caused turmoil to a significant portion of the population, and flip a coin to see what side you would have been on.
I *like* the movement towards the middle, because I see it as having brought about progress. Maybe not all of it was perfect, but my life is better, and I don’t feel THREATENED by my own government. I don’t know that I’d feel that way if the right got hold of the government, but I also know that lots of people would feel that way if the left did. And often enough, they’re people I have to deal with on a day to day basis.
Now, I can’t make any statements about politics one way or the other nowadays because I work for a magazine where it’s important to not be political. But this quote is just creepy no matter what side of the fence you’re on with regard to what has transpired in the nearly ten years since I wrote it.