Politics

Politics will (hopefully) not become a repetitive topic on this blog. It's too easy to discuss, and like the internet itself, full of uninformed opinions, like mine. So, unless I can attempt to offend everyone, I won't talk about the subject much and when I do, it will be entirely in oversimplified terms.

At the moment, I don't like either party.

Right now, the Democrats are completely in charge of our Federal Government. It seems the party plan is to spend lots of money, take direct control of American Business and to nationalize/socialize (both terms seem to be thrown around despite the significant difference between the two) some of our institutions like healthcare. The Democrats are perhaps modeling U.S. legislation after European socialism. Having spent time in Europe, I hope those policies do not get implemented. Healthcare is atrocious, big business are heavily regulated, and more importantly, every citizen pays heavy taxes through the nose. The sales tax alone in the U.K. is 17.5%

On the other hand, the Republican party scares the p@nts off me. It is a very hypocritical party at the moment, that has lost leadership, guidance, and is imbued with and outdated image of antiquated and stodgy old white guys who wish to legislate morality, to tell you what you can and cannot do, but decry big government. Most of this could be rectified with the exclusion of the Religious right from the party, or at least tempered and opened-mindedness from those that forget the tenant of separation of church and state. Then there is the case of late blooming republican party pseudo-affirmative action. McCain chose a female to be his running mate, (who probably was not qualified), the party chose Michael Steele to chair (who seems to be very qualified). While I see the attempt to change the perception, given the timing, it all seems quite hypo-pol-itical.

Perhaps I am wrong about everything. I don't mind. I'm certainly not an informed opinion. But, more importantly, did I succeed in riling everyone?