MPSD: My Political Stance Disclosure

I’m not an Obama nut. I don’t subscribe to any one political philosophy. Mainly because the current main parties (Republican & Democrat) don’t even subscribe to their own political philosophies.

I’m more conservative than liberal when it comes to most political ideals: I’m all for local/small government, less taxation, even the right to bare arms. Especially the right to bare arms at the rate things are going - I’m surprised the 2nd amendment is still a Republican platform. I guarantee it’s the next issue to fall by the wayside.

It’s the wayside that holds the erosion of true Republican politic. It’s this politic that many self identified “Republican” citizens believe they’re voting for. Where Republicans don’t want government interference when it comes to huge multi-billion dollar corporations, health care, assistance to citizens, public service initiatives or environmental protections… Most Republican elects are pushing government interference and control over our privacy, rights, & local/ state governings. Instead of protecting small government, it’s the Republican party that is spending more money & expanding the federal government’s power:

Bailing out large corporations on the taxpayers dime, alteration of the Federal Constitution with a restriction of freedoms, passing laws to enact a Federal ID and tracking system, championing the “Patriot Act” - a blatant handing over of power to Big Federal Government.

I know that Democrats have voted for these bills. The point is:

Republicans should be strongly opposed to this strengthening of the Federal Government’s power, but instead they’re its chief proponent

Show me a Republican president that says, “State governments rule supreme. This is a country made up of local, often different-minded small districts, which as a Whole, allows America to stand as the strongest nation in the history of the Earth.”

Acting locally and getting involved is all that truly matters. That’s something a Republican knows. This is a huge land of many different people, beliefs, morals and rituals. The federal government is merely a location for the representatives of all the individual districts to teach each other about the opportunities for all the districts to coexist as strongly as possible.

If it’s all about local government, then what’s important in our Federal leader?

Someone who doesn’t attempt to pass any law restricting a freedom we currently acknowledge as a country, someone who can play nice with the rest of the world (come on, you know that even if you might not like someone, the way to find the common ground needed to be a human being, is to figure shit out, and not be a bully), and someone who will focus on the country’s people. (Protection is a very important issue, but there has not been a war we’ve fought in 4 years that has been waged for protection - “Where’s Bin Laden?” and all that…)

I’m not for Obama. I’m not for Democrats. Actually, I don’t think there’s much of a difference between a Democrat or a Republican politician - Obama or McCain. It’s an illusion of choice. Both parties are bought and sold by private interests.

I’m for the America that stands for freedom of speech, religion, and the governing of a society by its people. Democracy (which is different than Capitalism) cannot be sustained on a vast scale. It’s small groups of people who discuss and vote. That’s why there are cities, districts and states.

We have a new “Presidential” leader every four years. These days it’s three and a quarter years at most, due to this ridiculous “smoke and mirrors” over our elections. I’m tired of wasting time. I want to focus on our country for a little while. Instead of investing all our debt and tax dollars in war, let’s invest it in something constructive here at home. Rebuild a broken city, pay back national debt, pay for the transition to electric automobiles, etc.

I know that there’s always been corruption, yellow journalism, liars, cheats, greed, war and mistreatment of many people. Why must we continue all of this? I don’t mean it rhetorically - I mean, why must you continue all of this?

Throughout my entire schooling I was taught how great this country was/is/could be. I learned of all the wars fought for our freedoms and risks taken to enforce the positives of this Grand Experiment. It feels as though those freedoms are in jeopardy - that I’m going to need to use everything I’ve learned to make sure Our America is preserved.

My guiding light and strongest sense of hope lives and dies right here:

The Freedom of Speech, and even more importantly, the Respect of other’s Freedom of Speech.

I love my fellow Americans, and will listen, and will argue, and will be taught, and will teach, and will, at the end of every day, wish them pleasant dreams. My best friend’s wife is as Anti-Obama as you can get. I have family members who don’t vote. I was born and live in a land that’s forged in the open discussion of all ideas. The bulk of my generation is one of a tiny few that have never exprienced anything different than that tolerance.

Reality is just around the corner…