So I recently got back from a week long trip to Wisconsin/Minneapolis, and although I had a great time seeing my family and watching my brother graduate, I got myself a little stressed out reading all those Scott Walker signs and being ultimately disappointed in North Carolina's decision (if the vote wasn't rigged-61%, really??)
I used to like to say that I had moderate political views, or preferred not to identify with a party because, well to put it simply, all politicians suck in some way and I don't agree with anyone 100%. But I can't help to think more and more What the F$@% are the Republicans thinking?!? And why does it feel that the majority of people are going along with their garbage that is ultimately going to hurt them, unless of course they are a business owner.
The basic breakdown of Wisconsin's historic recall election is this: Scott Walker was elected governor and turned around and was like bam bam - there go all your rights. This pissed a lot of people off so they took the time, collected signatures, picketed the capitol daily, and spent some government money to have his ass recalled- which is happening, but most likely with the same results as before. And of course, Walker has raised the big bucks from supporting companies.
It's funny because my Dad has always been a major Republican. This is mostly due to him being conservative and not believing in abortion or those types of "liberal views". Basically, in my eyes, people's right to choose. But I'll never forget a conversation we had once where I argued against their whole idea of capitalism and he basically gave me that patriotic crap where America is the place that people can come and work hard and get to the top and they deserve to make those big bucks. Well guess what. None of those businesses would be shit without their laborers and lower level managers. So we should really be giving 88% of the companies' profits solely to the top dogs because "they hit the big time and get to live the American dream" while the other 98% of Americans struggle with poverty and slip away from solid middle class? Not to mention, it is arguably a primary cause for our economic turmoil. To put it simply: no one's putting money into the economy because no one has money to go buy anything! And you know why? Because it's all sitting untouched in the CEO's bank account. And the funny thing is, my Dad's always been a poor guy, along with so many people that vote for this.
Then Walker came along. So my stepmother is a teacher, a teacher who had just earned her masters for a little bit of a raise. And there is no one Walker pissed off more then the teachers. When he took away their bargaining rights, he also took away her raise, which she now will never receive, and also has her paying more for her benefits. Funny, how quickly a hardcore Republican family can turn to the left when a politician's moves effect them directly. And they did.
And that just pulls around to the thing that really kills me: people voting based solely on their conservative values. This is why the party system is ultimately flawed and our system is just downright broken. Abortion, gay rights, guns. If we vote Romney into office, guess what, he's not going to ban abortion. And if we vote Obama into office, he never once said he was going to take away your stupid gun collection or your concealed weapons right. People are ignorantly placing what they think matters into a specific party and voting for it. And as far as gay rights go, it just makes me sick that a majority of this country is so afraid of change that they don't think people deserve the same rights they do. Where does it say in the bible that gay marriage is wrong- friggin nowhere.
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