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It breaks my heart to see the state of the world today. I try to maintain optimism and hope for the best from the future, but everywhere I look, it looks like doomsday. Our environment is falling apart, dangerous nations are rising up and gaining power all over the world, and I can't help but feeling like ours may be the most dangerous country of all. Not in the sense that it is dangerous to other countries, but rather that it's dangerous to its own citizens. Creativity is being crushed, both in public and in schools. I try to have hope for my generation, but when I'm at school, all I see is people trying to make money. Nobody seems to want to make a change or even care about what happens to the world in the future.
Even my own party, the democrats, is disappointing me. I strongly dislike Obama, but I would take anyone over 4 more years of Bush (McCain). I just hope he proves me wrong, and makes the changes that the world needs right now. For the next 8 years, he may be our only hope.
And what breaks my heart the most, I think, is what it means for Auron's generation. I can't help but grow anxious over what terrible problems he may have to face in the future, and I have to wonder what right we had to bring a child into the world, knowing where the world is headed. It kills me that he has to deal with the repercussions of the decisions that have been made by world leaders, present and past, none of which he has had any control over.
It makes me want to scream, and do something about it, but I feel so helpless. I suppose we all just have to wait until the next generation makes it into office to make some changes.
Even my own party, the democrats, is disappointing me. I strongly dislike Obama, but I would take anyone over 4 more years of Bush (McCain). I just hope he proves me wrong, and makes the changes that the world needs right now. For the next 8 years, he may be our only hope.
And what breaks my heart the most, I think, is what it means for Auron's generation. I can't help but grow anxious over what terrible problems he may have to face in the future, and I have to wonder what right we had to bring a child into the world, knowing where the world is headed. It kills me that he has to deal with the repercussions of the decisions that have been made by world leaders, present and past, none of which he has had any control over.
It makes me want to scream, and do something about it, but I feel so helpless. I suppose we all just have to wait until the next generation makes it into office to make some changes.