Politics
Okay, so usually, the person I want to sell to the mob in that icon is Pete, but today it's my father. We didn't agree on politics for a long time, but during the course of my business education (strangely enough), somewhere along the way I became fiscally conservative, anti-union, and several other things usually reserved for the designation of Republican.
Just now, I went over to his office after reading the pro-choice newsletter, and posed a question to him. Why is it that neither party seems willing to concede that what they really need is some common fucking sense? If someone stood up and said, I'm for shrinking the government, paying off the deficit, women's reproductive rights, and gay marriage, they'd get elected. At least, I think so. I don't think that anyone needs to be FOR any of these social issues, just please don't be against them. Unless you have a uterus, I do not believe that you need pick a side. Unless you're gay and want to get married, you don't get to pick. Basically, straight men should really not have a say in either of these two issues. I get that the pro-lifers don't want public funds going to "babykilling". I get that. That's fine. I don't either. But then you have to go ahead and drop the religious facade and educate people about birth control. One or the other. Sex ed or abortions. Pick one.
Sometimes it seems to me that the Democrats are spending all of their time flailing their hands for social issues and completely ignoring anything having to do with money. And on the other side, the Republicans are holding onto their wallets with both hands and just saying no to anything that has to do with people. Seriously, you guys? Please, work together. Is this kindergarten, where you pick a color and refuse to work with others? I don't think so. It's almost as though they don't realize that working together gets more done, and compromise gets more done. Lessons we learn early in life seem to fly right out of the window of their new office when they get elected.
I'm significantly less angry about it now, guess I'm calming down. That doesn't make me less annoyed with the whole thing. Actually, I was just reading an article in The Economist about campaign funding, and how the Supreme Court decided that it's totally fine for ghost organizations to fund campaigns under different names. You know what I think? I think if you take your rights as a voting American seriously, you'll do your damn homework and find out who's giving money to the people you're electing, that's what I think.
Is it SO MUCH to ask for people to take responsibility for things? Is it?
Just now, I went over to his office after reading the pro-choice newsletter, and posed a question to him. Why is it that neither party seems willing to concede that what they really need is some common fucking sense? If someone stood up and said, I'm for shrinking the government, paying off the deficit, women's reproductive rights, and gay marriage, they'd get elected. At least, I think so. I don't think that anyone needs to be FOR any of these social issues, just please don't be against them. Unless you have a uterus, I do not believe that you need pick a side. Unless you're gay and want to get married, you don't get to pick. Basically, straight men should really not have a say in either of these two issues. I get that the pro-lifers don't want public funds going to "babykilling". I get that. That's fine. I don't either. But then you have to go ahead and drop the religious facade and educate people about birth control. One or the other. Sex ed or abortions. Pick one.
Sometimes it seems to me that the Democrats are spending all of their time flailing their hands for social issues and completely ignoring anything having to do with money. And on the other side, the Republicans are holding onto their wallets with both hands and just saying no to anything that has to do with people. Seriously, you guys? Please, work together. Is this kindergarten, where you pick a color and refuse to work with others? I don't think so. It's almost as though they don't realize that working together gets more done, and compromise gets more done. Lessons we learn early in life seem to fly right out of the window of their new office when they get elected.
I'm significantly less angry about it now, guess I'm calming down. That doesn't make me less annoyed with the whole thing. Actually, I was just reading an article in The Economist about campaign funding, and how the Supreme Court decided that it's totally fine for ghost organizations to fund campaigns under different names. You know what I think? I think if you take your rights as a voting American seriously, you'll do your damn homework and find out who's giving money to the people you're electing, that's what I think.
Is it SO MUCH to ask for people to take responsibility for things? Is it?