Today culminates a 2 year journey
***WARNING: MEANDERING AMERICAN POLITICAL RANTING***
Today, Americans will choose a new president. Or an old president. No matter what choice they make (for what it's worth the betting odds are 3-1 Obama) there are certain things that will not change:
1. The US will remain extremely militaristic, continuing to violate the sovereignty of other nations in the name of national security. Also probably start another war, declared or undeclared, in the next 4 years.
2. Nothing will happen to Medicare or Social Security because elderly people are the largest voting block.
3. The demographic shift toward a "minority majority" (more non-white than white people in the US) by 2050 will continue to siphon votes away from an outmoded Republican party.
4. All the talk of Balancing the Budget will come to nothing, and the government will continue to run deficits until the economy recovers enough to increase government revenues.
5. Republicans will continue to act like Democrats are destroying the country, and vice-versa.
6. States will continue to pass Marijuana reforms which legalize and decriminalize, while the federal government continues to ignore the issue and/or crackdown on state laws which are in violation of federal laws.
I wish elections mattered more than they do. I also wish that the political season could be halved, or even quartered.
Why does our country spend 2 years campaigning for a 4 year term as president? People start declaring their candidacy and fundraising well before when they will run for president. You might even say Mitt Romney has been running for president for 6 years.
Potential candidates should certainly start early with getting their name out there, but not through political campaigning! Show political or business leadership. Write bills. Write a book. Make speeches. Lead your state or district to a better future. DO SOMETHING.
But let's stop having presidential election season be an almost constant thing.
I voted for Gary Johnson because I believe both of the US major political parties are wrong about what is best for the country. I am optimistic about the future of the US because I believe that government is limited in the amount of pain it is capable of inflicting on our society.
Today, Americans will choose a new president. Or an old president. No matter what choice they make (for what it's worth the betting odds are 3-1 Obama) there are certain things that will not change:
1. The US will remain extremely militaristic, continuing to violate the sovereignty of other nations in the name of national security. Also probably start another war, declared or undeclared, in the next 4 years.
2. Nothing will happen to Medicare or Social Security because elderly people are the largest voting block.
3. The demographic shift toward a "minority majority" (more non-white than white people in the US) by 2050 will continue to siphon votes away from an outmoded Republican party.
4. All the talk of Balancing the Budget will come to nothing, and the government will continue to run deficits until the economy recovers enough to increase government revenues.
5. Republicans will continue to act like Democrats are destroying the country, and vice-versa.
6. States will continue to pass Marijuana reforms which legalize and decriminalize, while the federal government continues to ignore the issue and/or crackdown on state laws which are in violation of federal laws.
I wish elections mattered more than they do. I also wish that the political season could be halved, or even quartered.
Why does our country spend 2 years campaigning for a 4 year term as president? People start declaring their candidacy and fundraising well before when they will run for president. You might even say Mitt Romney has been running for president for 6 years.
Potential candidates should certainly start early with getting their name out there, but not through political campaigning! Show political or business leadership. Write bills. Write a book. Make speeches. Lead your state or district to a better future. DO SOMETHING.
But let's stop having presidential election season be an almost constant thing.
I voted for Gary Johnson because I believe both of the US major political parties are wrong about what is best for the country. I am optimistic about the future of the US because I believe that government is limited in the amount of pain it is capable of inflicting on our society.