We are Heading For (Insert Cliche Doom and Gloom Reference Here)
A couple weeks ago I made a declaration of myself. I laid out my political and social beliefs and ultimately came to the conclusion that I would vote for John McCain(1). I can no longer honestly say that. I would not claim to be an undecided either because I have come to the conclusion that America is in a toilet and that both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, are the catalysts for flushing us all away. It is no longer a matter of who is the lesser of two evils because I feel that the selection of either one of these two people is going to destroy us. The nation is in turmoil and we need a leader. This country needs a leader who has had experiences that we, the American people can relate to; someone who has been where we are and feels what we feel.
Do you really think that Obama and McCain, millionaires many times over, know what we are feeling? I don’t. These aren’t people who know about you and me. These aren’t people who are working from paycheck to paycheck wondering if they will be able to pay their mortgage next month or put food on the table for their kids. These aren’t people who have to take care of their parents because their parent’s retirement funds have disappeared in the past 18 months. These aren’t people who are worrying that their retirement funds are going to disappear. These aren’t people who are worrying about paying for health care because these are people who can afford to buy a hospital. They both speak a lot about knowing what we are going through, neither one of them knows what we are going through. They both speak of change; yet offer more of the same old politics, politics that have gotten us into this mess to begin with.
The Declaration of Me
Much like a bad burrito on a Saturday night politics has reared its ugly head across the country. Sure politics is something that is always there, kind of like dirty laundry but ultimately most people, rightly or wrongly, only give a crap every four years. Every year the two parties of consequence come out and lie to our faces, telling us that this is the most important election ever. The each claim the other party’s nominees are not fit to run our country, when in reality neither party’s nominees are probably fit to run a McDonald’s let alone the United States of America.
I myself tend to stay out of political discussions, although with the amount of blogs about politics I am finding myself drawn in further and further. I feel your political choices are your choices and that you should not need to defend them to anyone. However I felt it was time to at least lay out where I stand.
