{"id":15,"date":"2004-09-28T04:45:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-09-28T04:45:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:45:20","slug":"why-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/why-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize that I’ve spent much of this space expressing my disdain for George Bush and his administration, — there is so much to loathe — but let me turn to why I’m supporting John Kerry.<\/p>\n

1) Philosophically, I believe that government has an important and positive role in establishing the public good. I believe that one of government’s tasks is to act on a check to the profit motive, which we have seen must be somehow controlled (see Teddy Roosevelt; see Enron). I think John Kerry shares this view; I think George Bush views government as a servant of overweening corporatism. (I don’t think that all Republicans are as irresponsible are George Bush!)<\/p>\n

2) I believe that John Kerry is a more sensible and thoughtful person than George Bush (whose personal and political history is unencouraging). For some sense of Kerry’s public service, I recommend reading this summary<\/a> in “The Nation.” (I tend to think of “The Nation” as a fairly wild-eyed leftist publication, but this is a very measured look at Kerry’s record.)<\/p>\n

3) I believe that Kerry will develop policies — particularly tax policy — that lead to a more sensible distribution of goods and services in this country; a more thoughtful, measured response to the threat of terrorism; a wiser foreign policy; a decent health care system; a cleaner environment. <\/p>\n

4) I believe Kerry is neither corrupt, nor reckless, nor deceitful, and I am sure George Bush is all of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize that I’ve spent much of this space expressing my disdain for George Bush and his administration, — there is so much to loathe — but let me turn to why I’m supporting John Kerry. 1) Philosophically, I believe that government has an important and positive role in establishing the public good. I believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}