Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
Sorry to get you upset. It wasn't meant as a personal attack, just one of my pet peeves.

A private message would have sufficed. I have done the same for others that have issues with spelling and grammar (it's really bad when I can tell).

As far as word choice, I do it all the time. I know the difference between loose, and lose, I also know the difference between your and you're. I make word choice errors when typing cause I am getting out the thought, and the spell check doesn't catch the error, so when I go back over the message I miss the error.

Maybe next time you will consider a private lesson rather than publicly chastising the person. For if you really didn't want to offend, as you probably got when I publicly chastised you, then you probably should have made that choice to begin with.

Back to the thread;

Tom, I agree, we are far from being a sociocratic, though the country is headed in that direction. If we were there, I don't think there would be a large emphasis on getting the poverty stricken areas of the country to side with a particular candidate. I could be wrong on that point however.

Thorn, I am from the northwest, and grew up learning that those running for office had to consider the high concentration of Mormons. Another thing they had to consider where I grew up was industry. The area I grew up in is largely blue collar workers, and heavy in union participation. Now normally being heavy in the union area would result in a concentration of Democrat voters, however because the area was largely Mormon, it ended up being the opposite. Always seemed to be a bit of an oxymoron of a situation to me. Hence why I say that religion is heavily tied into politics. Also, lets consider the idea of Mitt Romney. The guy might have been a good presidential candidate, however his heavy ties to his church (as any 'good Mormon' is heavily tied to their church) probably prevented his ultimate candidacy. Though if John McCain, or Hillary Clinton were to say they were Atheist or Agnostic or any religion that wasn't Christian based they would quickly be forgotten. The notion that someone wouldn't be swearing on the bible when going into office for some reason messes with peoples heads.