single issue
i just caught a few moments of mary cheney on hannity and colmes, explaining that she "doesn't have the luxury of being a single-issue voter" - obviously referring to her betrayal of the same portion of the populace she was once paid to shill corporate product to.

what single issue would that be, mary? the cynical welding of "conservative" ideas about governance, national security and fiscal policy, to a social doctrine that openly calls for your own erasure? the declaration by a sitting member of the supreme court that consensual adult sex furthers a radical agenda? the effort to bar, not just "gay marriage", but any kind of contract that does not reify a fantasy of "the american family" that has little to do with reality? the refusal or elimination of reproductive rights, childrearing rights, property rights, medical and legal proxy rights? extreme, punitive heterosexism that oppresses *everyone*, not just your own alleged community? the empowerment of hatred and violence?

oh, right... *that* single issue. the issue that your own privilege insulates you from. the issue of actually living and functioning as a real, full and equal citizen. the single issue over which most of our wars have been supposedly been fought, and that this country was founded on.

or maybe even just the single issue of having a conscience... which, if it were in working order, might just bring all those other issues into coherence with this one.

screw you.