Politics!
(Excuse me, I’m going to cuss and rant a bit here.)
Sometimes, I really hate politics in this country. It’s a fucking circus. There’s only two fucking parties in the country that anyone ever really takes seriously. And some people TAKE THEM TOO SERIOUSLY, in my opinion.
Some people stop treating the parties like the slightly changing and shifting ideological platforms they are, even ignoring the diversity that exists WITHIN each party (not to mention the possible diversity outside the two main parties). Instead people treat them like fucking sports teams. Like, fucking Red vs. Blue over here.
And then people start drawing lines in the sand, dividing every fucking thing into two. They do this while saying, “you either ARE or you AREN’T.” Like there’s always only two options to every choice or two possible solutions to every problem.
And if I don’t completely agree with them on every single hot button issue? I’m suddenly the idiot, the douchebag, the prick, the overgrown child.
How dare I express a third opinion!
And then the terms liberal and conservative turn downright radioactive… don’t wanna to touch that shit.
And then there’s the fucking mud-slinging campaigns.
Because no one really votes FOR a candidate as much as they vote AGAINST a candidate… at least not these days. The same could be said about the parties as well. And the politicians fucking KNOW this.
And sometimes I’m watching the two (sometimes so incredibly hypocritical it burns) sides of these arguments and it all plays out like a tween playground fight gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Person A will call Person B out for being unable to spell or use proper grammar or whatever when Person A IS DOING THE EXACT SAME THING.
Granted, everyone is at least a little bit of a hypocrite, but when you’re acting in such a fashion AND acting all high and mighty about it? It’s just embarrassing!
And even if and when I DO agree with you, I will still always have the urge to call you out on shit when you’re being inconsistent and hypocritical. I don’t CARE if we’re “on the same side.” Because I have standards. Because I believe in Common Decency.
Just because your so-called opponent is being a level one douchebag idiot DOESN’T mean you have to stoop to their level, too. It also doesn’t mean you have to tell the person they are a level one douchebag idiot. Be the bigger person, for once!
I. HATE. EXTREMISM. (EXTREMELY. xD)
What happened to logic? What happened to respect? What happened to practicing what you preach? What happened to thinking for your own damn selves?!
You know what? I’m a slightly liberal-leaning moderate, and mostly because I’m socially liberal. Fiscally? I’m divided, and I have mixed feelings on pretty much anything to do with this country’s fiscal policy. I am pro-choice but I still have some reservations about abortion and I take as much offense to people calling a fetus a parasite as I do to people calling the pregnant woman a whore. I am otherwise pretty live and let live and support the ideal of a minimalistic and efficient government (but with some socialistic programs involved where they’re needed). I am also a feminist and generally just a peoplist. And I pretty much always try to be fair. THIS IS WHO I AM.
More than anything, I support queer rights, because that’s a very big and very personal deal to me. This is also the #1 reason I never vote for the Republican party in Texas.
Because I’d rather live in a state with a questionable economy than live in a state where I could be arrested and condemned just for being who I am. Especially when giving me the rights I DESERVE doesn’t remotely infringe on other people’s rights at all.
If I could have it my way, the two major parties would be Democratic Socialist and Libertarian, as those generalized platforms would best represent my own internal political conflicts. As it is, I don’t affiliate with either existing major party. BOTH dissatisfy me. There’s groups of people I wouldn’t in a million years want to associate with on BOTH sides.
(And a number of people who are quite alright.)
And you know what? You’re perfectly welcome to disagree with me. Granted, I respect people more when they think for themselves without parroting newscasters and the like, but whatever you want… more power to you. I can live with that. I can agree to disagree.
Hell, you can even mock me a little. I lightly mock others, too. One of my best friends in the world is incredibly more liberal than I’ll probably ever be and we tease each other all the time. But there’s a big difference between casual mockery and the kinds of bullshit a number of politicrazy people seem to be pulling these days.
I just want it to stop. :/
