Musings { Before I knew it SoDak turned evil

Well not evil. But they are becoming a poster child for the Administration's idea of a conservative christian pro-life gun-toting utopia. Before when you would hear about schools teaching creationism, banning abortion, and generally all the other dogmatic principles that follow the ultra-right's agenda they would usually be in places farther away than next door, places like Florida (where a Bush rules), Texas, or various places in the deep south. But that all started to change with the fairly recent 'intelligent design' cirriculum in the Kansas school board (note that most of those on the school board that implement this policy were just defenistrated and replaced). Even Ohio has fallen. But before I knew it South Dakota has become a bastion of this new agenda. NoDak, SoDak, MN, Iowa, and WI used to be a cluster of rationalism in the upper Midwest, often fiscally conservative, but almost always socially liberal. But since the fall of farming, or rather the corporatization of agriculture, things have been changing. Here are the items I refer to in illustration of my point:

1) The hardcore pro-life legislation banning abortion (even criminalizing it).
2) The death penalty.
3) 'Shoot first' gun legislation allowing the use of deadly force in the defense of property against a fellow person, as well as conceal and carry.


I will not go back into my feelings about the apparent paradox with being 'pro-life' and pro-capital punishment, nor supporting the ability to take life in the defense of property (in my opinion nothing I own is worth another human's life). The only thing they are missing to be a full fledge member of the right-wing utopia is 'intelligent design' legislation.

What happened SoDak? Your neighbor to the east is concerned.