I think I've been quite vocal about my political choices.
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Although I am a registered Democrat, I, like the heterogeneous instruments player, vote issue by issue and candidate by candidate.
I realized my fate as a Democrat when I took Political Science 1020: Government Institutions. I was a young, impressionable mind reading my heart out about Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Federalism and Democracy. But most importantly the subinstutuions of American Democracy: political parties.
Republican: laissez-faire (stay out of other people's business), capitolism, cutting taxes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Democrat: Federal programs, raising taxes in times of plenty and saving for times of need, idealism, welfare.
I was sold. I have been a Democrat since 2002. My father, a staunch Republican, almost disowned me when he found out, "How can you defend this country and vote for someone who cut every military program?" I didn't vote for him. I was too young.
I'm glad to say the Democrats are taking over Washington on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2006...I'm voting for them.
TR, if you ever want to talk politics or learn more, hit me up. Being the lone Democrat in my family has made me an advocate for education. Political science is my life.
When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University...wait, Notre Dame Law.
posted by Creativity Escapes Me at 23:31
2 Comments:
Ah... the idealism of the young. It's so refreshing, and mildly amusing.
For you see, dear girl, unless your chosen career is going to make you a part of that government-support oriented system, I'll wager that by the time you're, say, 35 or 40, you will have changed your mind.
Forget whether you want to call them "Republican" or "Democrat, or the in the UK, Conservative"" or "Labor", or here in Australia, "Liberal" or "Labor", the animals are much the same.
You described them well yourself... on one side, a philosophy that says "We'll look after the big stuff, and you look after yourselves", and on the other side, a philosophy that says "We know what's best for you".
I'm sorry... "government" doesn't actually know anything, and a government that doesn't trust its people to run the minutae of their lives is no government you or this bear would really want to live with.
That's why people laugh at the line "I'm from the government, I'm here to help you".
I could rabbit on for pages about this, and I respect your political values.
Just remember what Mark Twain once wrote...
"In the end, it doesn't matter who you vote for, you still end up with a politician."
15:53
Pete Ashdown is still a hero because, as he told Rod Decker, he was in it to win from the beginning. Go Pete. I'd invite him to dinner. Hey! We should ask him to a pretzel party!
10:32
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