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[johno]

Reading through candidate position information and read this one:

Jim King

Candidate for
Lieutenant Governor; State of California

{snip, snip}

Top Priorities if Elected

* return God to govt. & schools. we are "one nation under God".

Which God? Which religion?

California was and is build on a multiculturalism that extends well beyond skin color, wealth (or lack there of) or where you came from. Trying to place any one vision above another is ludicrous in this society.

{eep}

Political talk from JohnO, how strange.

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[khanfused.livejournal.com]

>>>
Which God? Which religion?
California was and is build on a multiculturalism that extends well beyond skin color, wealth (or lack there of) or where you came from. Trying to place any one vision above another is ludicrous in this society.
>>>

< bitterly sour sarcastic mode >
Noooo ... California was established initially by a buncha haven't-bathed-in-a-year spaniards that had just finished going into Aztec lands and stealing anything that wasn't nailed down (and a number of things that were) ...
< /bitterly sour sarcastic mode >

Ok ... must remember to stop LJing during periods of very low blood sugar

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

. . . and then some Catholic priests showed up and started civilizing the Indians by stealing their land and terrifying them into submission; and later the Mexicans showed up and established huge ranchos full of scrawny cattle . . . only to see them taken away after the Mexican-American War, when the Feds promised to respect Mexican landowner's property rights but the California Supreme Court took them away less than a decade later . . . and the resulting birth of the railroad machine . . . which in turn got its butt kicked by the "Progressives" who established the Los Angeles Machine . . . which runs water politics (and therefore the rest of politics) in California today.

This is only multicultural because the losers stopped getting massacred . . . the tendency to resolve ownership disputes with less and less actual _violence_ and more and more _paperwork_.

So you might say multiculturalism is the ability of different groups to live together without killing each other with machetes and AK-47s. Progress, of a sort.