Sometimes
talking about nerdy things requires us to take a step out of our comfort zone
and avoid the fandoms, to venture out into uncharted waters of conversation. Avoid Harry Potter, various anime, and Doctor Who (which I will be taking
advantage of the summer to watch, by the way). Avoid the familiar shores of the
countless nerd references from video games or Nerdfighteria (No Edge!, Swindon
Town Swoodilypoopers, Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy, etc). So pretty much avoid all the fun things.
Sometimes talking about nerdy things means talking about politics.
Recently
I was completing the Social 12 project that was required of all graduating
seniors. This project consisted of reading and analyzing newspaper articles,
watching and analyzing news programs, writing letters to government and
community leaders, and doing research on the computer about various government
leaders and branches of government. After the bulk of the work was done, we
were required to write a reflection paper in which we discussed how we felt
about our role in the government system and all that jazz.
So what
does this have to do with anything that I’ve led you to think that we’ll be
talking about in the first paragraph? Well, one of the research projects
included looking at the different beliefs and traits of the political party spectrum
within the United States. I’m not going to waste my time and spend the rest of
this blog endorsing the beliefs of one particular party because I am a firm
believer in the one-party system. Not the type in which dictators find their
way in the world and rise to power, but the type in which people who want to be
elected to office fight fairly to win the vote. No more will we have to worry
about one candidate from Party A saying one thing and Party B’s candidate just
saying the opposite to sweep up the remainder of the vote; no more will Party B
resort to scare tactics to gain votes, because votes will be earned honestly by
speaking the truth. Parties will actually get along with each other instead of
undermining each other and spreading lies and deceit for a lousy vote. And, it’s
a bit of a stretch, but maybe one day all candidates for any position will be
given a price cap for their campaign, so that no one is defeated simply because
they couldn’t afford additional commercial spots. The government in the United
States is far from perfect, and I feel like some of my ideas are halfway
decent, but I can’t change the government by myself even if I wanted to.
This
blog had little to do with actual politics and was more of me just pushing my
beliefs on others who actually take the time to read this, but this is
seriously how I think the government should work: where absolutely everything
is equal regardless of any sort of outside factor. The truth of the matter is
that I’m probably going to be ignored, a single voice lost in the crowd of
opinions and negativity, cast off as an ignorant outsider. The truth of the
matter is that I’m over-estimating the values of humanity. The truth of the
matter is that none of this is possible in this world, because this world is
far from perfect, far from ideal.
What do
you think about this subject? Leave your opinion(s) in comments, and don’t
forget to follow me on Blogger or on Twitter (@srg_tntm).
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