We started this blog for a reason. After watching (and rewatching, and watching some more) the extensive coverage for this election, we've come to a conclusion. Our generation is being completely ignored by the party politic because we're all expected to step in line and wish for hope and change and a consequence-free, gives-with-both-hands America. But a lot of us don't want that. A lot of us are looking for jobs and have student loan payments and generally live in reality. And we realize that if we freely give other people the things we have worked so hard for, we're just getting jobbed. You'd think that this makes us republicans. And it does, when it comes down to the same question of donkey vs. elephant.
But that's not the only question. Young people can't get excited about the republican ticket (and that's not just because McCain is eleventy-billion years old). Young people still care about social issues. And, by and large, young people's social politics deviate radically from the republican old guard. We were raised taking Roe v. Wade for granted. We want our gay friends to be allowed to marry and adopt if they want to do so. And the republicans don't.
This trend is leading to a larger and larger young libertarian ideology, and it is this ideology we'd like to explore. In a nutshell, it's sort of "Keep your laws off my body...and my wallet!" So, through your editors, AJ and Katie, and (hopefully) a variety of guest contributors, we'll be able to at least put this (completely ignored) viewpoint out there. And maybe get something done.
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Ok ok, I'm not necessarily for gay marriage, but I am for a legal union for gays in the eyes of the government. Marriage is a religious ceremony and religion is a touchy subject to its devout followers. If a church wants to be anti-gay marriage, and refuse to marry gays, that is their decision and the government should have no place to tell them they have to. Separation of church and state, right?
Hi Girls,
Nice Blog. I can tell that you were raised RIGHT. Can I bitch on here? Well I'm going to. I are (am) depressed. (Doesn't "I are" sound better?) It appears that the main stream media has finally accomplished their goal of dumbing down the majority of Americans and instilling apathy and celebrity worship in lieu of patriotism and adulation of true American heroes, like soldiers. I are depressed because the mainstream has accomplished this so well that it doesn't even attempt to hide the flagrant lack of objectivity because the majority of Americans don't care. The majority of Americans either are too stupid or too lazy to give even cursory analysis to politics or economics. The analysis of our current financial crises by most Americans is this "Financial meltdown, plus a Republican President, equals Republicans must be at Fault". They get their news and political analysis from the likes of Matt Damon and Jason Alexander who are campaigning for Hussein in Florida today, and Richard Dreyfuss on the "Spew".
Criminal mischief that allows Obama to take money from the agencies Democrats are supposed to be regulating? Who Cares? Worshipping with an avowed American Hater for twenty years! Who cares?Massive electoral fraud on behalf of the Democrats? Who cares? We may end up with a celebrity "Empty Suit" sitting in Lincoln's Chair ?!#!$????!!!. It's enough to make you want to throw up and give up. OK, I'm done (for now).
Thanks for letting me vent.
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