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After watching 5 minutes of that 700 club crap, I turned it to The Daily News with Jon Stewart.
Ahhhhhh a refreshing breath for fresh air.
My other half (who admits he doesn't care about the election and won't be voting) made the claim that I refuse to listen to negative press about Kerry, but that I believe everything I'm fed about Bush if it's negative. He says I'm biased....
Now, there may be some truth to my personal bias against the Shrub. But hey, I've been paying attention these last 4 years.
I asked him why he seemed so concerned about my political views ( and it drives him crazy that I AM so politically inclined ) when he himself claims he doesn't care about politics. Funny, no answer.
Sometimes I wonder what's worse....
Voting for the wrong candidate?
Or being complacent about the whole thing and not exercising the right to vote?
He says that his vote doesn't make any difference. (and of course, we DO have proof of that after the last election...but I won't go there..makes me too angry)
He says that things will never change. It seems to me that that kind of attitude is exactly WHY things never change.
How can we ever make a difference in this world and effect change when we don't exercise the freedoms that democracy allows?
Only 30% of the population of legal voters actually exercise their RIGHT to vote, and yet we're all about liberating other countries and bringing them democracy too!
In the wise words of Lewis Black...
"Yeah, it's great! Cuzzzz, ya don't have to do it!"
This is the kind of pessimism that really scares me. My generation seems to be too complacent about our government. I just don't understand why they can't see that it DOES matter.
It takes a lot of gas to fuel these SUV's, so when the cost of oil goes up as a result of this war, our quality of life will go down as a result. If it costs 40 $ to fill up your tank instead of 16 or 20, that's an effect. And of course, eventually the oil will cease to flow.
And if we haven't discovered an alternate means of fueling our vehicles, we will be in an even bigger pickle... but hey, that's a ways off! We don't have to worry about that. Let's let our children and grandchildren deal with it. Screw em!
Or....
We can exercise our democracratic right to vote (while we still can) and get the right people in office who actually care about the environment and decreasing our reliance on foreign oil.
We can also do our best to ensure our children have the best education (so they too can contribute to the well-being of our planet) Oh, and try to keep them healthy too, so they will live long enough to see the fruits of their labor amount to something worthwhile.
*stepping off her soapbox now*
Ahhhhhh a refreshing breath for fresh air.
My other half (who admits he doesn't care about the election and won't be voting) made the claim that I refuse to listen to negative press about Kerry, but that I believe everything I'm fed about Bush if it's negative. He says I'm biased....
Now, there may be some truth to my personal bias against the Shrub. But hey, I've been paying attention these last 4 years.
I asked him why he seemed so concerned about my political views ( and it drives him crazy that I AM so politically inclined ) when he himself claims he doesn't care about politics. Funny, no answer.
Sometimes I wonder what's worse....
Voting for the wrong candidate?
Or being complacent about the whole thing and not exercising the right to vote?
He says that his vote doesn't make any difference. (and of course, we DO have proof of that after the last election...but I won't go there..makes me too angry)
He says that things will never change. It seems to me that that kind of attitude is exactly WHY things never change.
How can we ever make a difference in this world and effect change when we don't exercise the freedoms that democracy allows?
Only 30% of the population of legal voters actually exercise their RIGHT to vote, and yet we're all about liberating other countries and bringing them democracy too!
In the wise words of Lewis Black...
"Yeah, it's great! Cuzzzz, ya don't have to do it!"
This is the kind of pessimism that really scares me. My generation seems to be too complacent about our government. I just don't understand why they can't see that it DOES matter.
It takes a lot of gas to fuel these SUV's, so when the cost of oil goes up as a result of this war, our quality of life will go down as a result. If it costs 40 $ to fill up your tank instead of 16 or 20, that's an effect. And of course, eventually the oil will cease to flow.
And if we haven't discovered an alternate means of fueling our vehicles, we will be in an even bigger pickle... but hey, that's a ways off! We don't have to worry about that. Let's let our children and grandchildren deal with it. Screw em!
Or....
We can exercise our democracratic right to vote (while we still can) and get the right people in office who actually care about the environment and decreasing our reliance on foreign oil.
We can also do our best to ensure our children have the best education (so they too can contribute to the well-being of our planet) Oh, and try to keep them healthy too, so they will live long enough to see the fruits of their labor amount to something worthwhile.
*stepping off her soapbox now*
posted by Liz at 12:44 AM
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