Politics

I hate politics. It just all seems so shady.
I really think that anyone who lasts in politics all the way up to being President must have been corrupted somewhere along the way…. Making ties with people and organizations that would one day come back to collect on their investments.

But my biggest annoyance is the people. The extremists. Anyone who is a die hard democrat or a die hard republican. Because these are the people that will defend to their death anything that their party does or stands for and will shoot down and ridicule anything the opposite party does, stands for, or decides. Even if it something as trivial as how one of their party leaders gives a speech or how they grew up. But what seems so ridiculous is the fact that people are willing to buy into such a one sided belief. Is there anything in life, short of the the Bible itself, where we are given only two choices and we choose one, whole-heartedly embracing everything that is included without question and passionately disputing anything that the opposing choice includes.

Especially with republicans, since they are the supposed “Christian” party, the republican party seems to reserve the right to add almost anything to their list of what republicans stand for and then just send out marketing materials to convince everyone that this is what they should agree with. But it isn’t very hard to convince the republicans because they will just agree with anything the “Christian” party says. As long as they don’t change their stance on the obvious issues, they can continue manipulating and deceiving people to believe anything they want them to believe.

And so many of them eat it up. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we are lazy. We don’t want to have to actually get informed or do any kind of research or even any kind of speculative thinking of our own. We as Christians use issues like abortion and homosexuality as an excuse to vote for and buy into only one party and not even have a discussion about the other issues in our country, such as poverty, healthcare, education, the environment, unemployment, war, economics, national debt etc. These are all important issues in our society. Issues which we should have some sort of stance on. Issues which we, as Christians, should be at the forefront of, leading our country to a biblical solution and promoting compassion and generosity in the legislation. But as Christians we have made up our minds which party to agree with based on the two most controversial issues and therefore anything else that party stands for we think must be biblical and anything the baby killers and gay lovers agree with must be of the devil. Even some of my friends that I respect the most as intellectuals and profound thinkers seem fooled by the republican party propaganda. It’s an excuse. It’s an excuse for people to not have to think for themselves and come up with what they believe about government and about the way this country should be run. And I find that many people don’t even want to discuss it.

But the democrats aren't any better. They are so sure that they are right about everything that they won't even consider looking at things from another perspective. And nothing you say can change their minds because they'll just respond with, "Well that's not true, you can't believe anything these people say because they all lie." Well in that case, why even bother debating since nobody really knows anything that is true.

The problem is that these people are either one side or the other and therefore anything they hear on the news and anything they read in the paper is already slanted going in. Because they know what side they choose before they even hear all the facts. Their minds are already made up. So they hear what they want to hear and they don’t hear what they disagree with. Some if not most of them even go as far as only listening to news stations that report the news from this slant. Or only listening to radio programs that are agreeing with everything one party has to say. It’s like brainwashing at it’s best.