Political thoughts for a political season
This week for my social policy class we are reading a chapter out of our textbook that is all about the Government. I'm sure that it is going to spark some pretty interesting debates in class on Saturday! The beginning of the chapter starts out with political parties and political labels. It described the GOP as being business oriented at it's inception which the Democratic party was created to support the Bill of Rights. It also stated that to be conservative was to be disposed to maintaining existing institutions while liberal favors political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties. I think the thing that I appreciated most about this book (which was updated earlier this year) is how they mentioned the rise of importance of "moral values" over economic considerations in the voting process, and how strange that was for politics. I smiled a bit when I realized that the book said nothing about Christianity or religion being more closely tied to one party over another... as the past 8 years would have made us believe. I just remember so much of the debate that was happening during the last election season about how if someone was a Christian that meant that they had to be a republican and were therefore automatically Bush supporters. But I won't get into that.
So I suppose the point of this post is basically to ask everyone to listen to the debates with an open mind and vote on the candidate that will be of greatest benefit to the well-being of the country instead of the candidate who would best uphold religious belief.
So I suppose the point of this post is basically to ask everyone to listen to the debates with an open mind and vote on the candidate that will be of greatest benefit to the well-being of the country instead of the candidate who would best uphold religious belief.