This, yes. I believe that at some point America will elect a Black mtf lesbian atheist vegetarian in a wheelchair who doesn't like football.
But I also suspect that this may not happen until a point in the future when the major political issues involve the questions of rights for clones and genetically-engineered hyper-intelligent dogs and A.I.s an cryogenically frozen revived people. And there will be so many new and exciting Others to hate and fear that a lot of the old divisions just won't matter any more.
At the moment, I agree with people below-- a person who just happened to be vegetarian and didn't talk about it much has a good shot. A person who is politically active about vegetarianism and trying to encourage it in others, not so much. I will note that I can't remember the last time we had a President who was an activist, rather than a person who held certain political views (albeit strongly).
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6/11/10 15:08 (UTC)But I also suspect that this may not happen until a point in the future when the major political issues involve the questions of rights for clones and genetically-engineered hyper-intelligent dogs and A.I.s an cryogenically frozen revived people. And there will be so many new and exciting Others to hate and fear that a lot of the old divisions just won't matter any more.
At the moment, I agree with people below-- a person who just happened to be vegetarian and didn't talk about it much has a good shot. A person who is politically active about vegetarianism and trying to encourage it in others, not so much. I will note that I can't remember the last time we had a President who was an activist, rather than a person who held certain political views (albeit strongly).