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I went looking to see which Senators and Representatives had had the decency (or courage?) to vote against torture and arbitrary imprisonment yesterday. I wound up at a Washington post page sorted by party, which told me that Lincoln Chaffee is the only honorable Republican in the U.S. Senate. The others, including McCain, voted in favor.
Then I saw that I can also get the totals sorted by state, region, "boomer status," gender, next election year, or astrological sign.
And I wonder that I expect sanity from a country in which people who actually pay attention to politics are expected to think that's a useful or interesting sort. But I'm not just wanting, and mourning the lack of, sanity: I want ordinary human decency.
Then I saw that I can also get the totals sorted by state, region, "boomer status," gender, next election year, or astrological sign.
And I wonder that I expect sanity from a country in which people who actually pay attention to politics are expected to think that's a useful or interesting sort. But I'm not just wanting, and mourning the lack of, sanity: I want ordinary human decency.