Policy, Ideology, Confusion
I would rather not vote. Not because it let’s me say I have no responsibility for poor policy and legislative decisions. I believe I have as much responsibility for those things as people who vote for them.
However, when my all-over-the-place ideology conflicts with something like the Patriot Employer Act, I won’t vote for those who endorse it because I don’t need to be a hypocrite in a way that I can avoid. (I will say that I won’t eat cookies for my health, and that you shouldn’t either. But you and I both know I’m going to eventually have a cookie.)
If the Patriot Employer Act is enacted and turns out to be the best thing for the economy and everyone involved, then I will be ecstatically happy that I was proven wrong.
A question occurred to me as I wrote this, and I’ll leave it as a mind-reading exercise for the reader: Why does the philosophy behind this potential legislation remind me of something born from the same people who opposed NAFTA?
