ME: well, actually, i thought it was, er, very, uh, sort of… erudite… and astute.
HER: erudite?
ME: it was “well put.”
HER (choking): them big words don’t do right by me!
LJ’d by Lisa:
i’ve been learning more about republicans and what they stand for. i still instinctively yell “EVIL!!!!” inside my head when i learn someone is republican, but i’ve also finally admitted to myself that the world is not so black and white.and i think i’ve finally put my views of current politics into a consise passage on another message board (filled with mostly 11-24 year-olds, some of whom are intelligent, many of whom repeat the cliches of their parents and the news, and many of whom place a large emphasis on the candidates’ personality traits), which i will relate to you here.
bush stands where he stands, even if that’s on a country needlessly running itself into the ground and alienating itself from all its friends.
kerry flipflops just as much as every other politician throughout history who is trying to get elected.
presidents do not weild supreme power. the work of people throughout the country determine its destiny, and regardless of a democrat or republican in office, the house and senate perform checks and balances to make sure that neither party “ruins” america.
unfortunately, the balance has been thrown off by corporate politics. meaning, big businesses have been running the show through money and pressure. when CEOs control the country, you know the government has failed, and needs to be replaced.
terrorists strike on the basis of foreign policy, not because we’re “free” or we have kerry in office. they strike because we decimate their countries, humiliate them, and then leave them to clean up our mess.
america is a superpower. but nobody survives long without help from the rest of the world. bush has put us on the path toward destruction. most of you cannot imagine a world where you can’t just do and say and buy anything you want, but that’s not how most of the world works. in the days following sept. 11, we knew how a lot of people around the world have to live every single day of their lives, often because of america’s poor choices in foreign policy. if our politics in general don’t change, we’ll very likely begin to get more and more doses of what we have been dishing out to (currently) less powerful countries.
time to look at the bigger picture.
couldn’t agree more.
