I am somebody who likes to think I'm pretty decently educated as to analyzing the politics in our own country, as well as the rest of the world. I read different media outlets, watch videos, read different texts, etc. I feel like I know a good amount.
The truth is, I have no idea.
Voicing an opinion about any sort of political situation now-a-days is basically like throwing your own body into a pit full of cheetahs that are starving and have been eyeing you up for hours. You say one thing, and then BAM! You have 3 different people pointing out every little flaw in your statement and why they think so. I put up a Facebook status the other day saying my phone was broken. Next thing I know I have a massive 6 person political debate going on in my comment thread.
Everything now is so polarized, and so bipartisan, and so hateful and mean. I know it isn't this easy, obviously, but why can't we just use common sense to figure out a lot of our issues?
Does it not concern anybody that we are the only world power and major country that doesn't provide universal healthcare to our citizens? Why is that a privilege and not a right? Oh let me see because people think that's socialist.
What about getting an abortion? If you don't want one just don't get one. It's simple. Also, it's funny seeing a stage full of men debate on what a woman should do with her body, as if it's their decision to be making.
Oh it's because of religion, that's right. Well guess what:
I'm sure most of these make me sound like a die-hard liberal. That's fine if you think that, but I like to think I align with the "common sense" party. I hate politics, I just can't seem to distance myself from them. A lot of people my age either hate politics or just really don't care. That really is such a shame because we live in such a free country that's based off of participation of the American people to make their own decisions. Not a lot of other countries can do that. But the fact that we don't have much of a voice because we aren't billionaires, we don't own companies, we can't all graduate from an Ivy-league law school. It's discouraging for our generation. We see a bleak future.
I know some of the issues I pointed out above are not even the tip of the iceberg of the political world. Those are just a few social issues. On top of that there's a plethora of foreign and domestic policy and economic topics to be discussed. Those are just some of the basics. It doesn't seem like we can figure them out any time soon, though.
Maybe it's time for a political revolution.
