I hate politics.

[thewordofzod]

...in large part because they control subjects that are  important to me (taxes, healthcare, technology), and so my passion for them spills out as though I were passionate about politics (which honestly make me dislike the human race, and want to throw up, alternately

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[wunderworks]

That doesn't make you fiscally conservative, that just makes you fiscally sound. Your ideas of what fiscally liberal are betray the misinformation you've been fed, like most of us probably for years, that lies at the root of why so many of the middle class and below go again and again back to the polling booth and punch themselves in the nuts by voting for the Republican Party since World War II.

[tenebrax]

...If by "special needs homosexual artists grant package", you're referring to Robert Mapplethorpe's NEA grant

[thewordofzod]

Oddly enough no.

I wasn't thinking specifically of anything...

It was more of a statement of generality... Because something is for the needy, the gay, the artistic or any other protected class, it is almost always protected by what I call the "OKCupid School of Logic", from that websites user genereated content questions which tend to follow a format like:

I think gays are:
A) an abomination.
B) a sin against God.
C) disgusting.
D) I'm not a republican.

...and if you vote against it, for ANY reason, you are an evil arts hating, education denying, homophobe...

[thewordofzod]

Your points are actually one of the bigger reasons I'm generally AGAINST this sort of funding