discardia

I took one of those online assessments for which presidential candidate I should vote for here recently. And then I took another one. Then I took another one. Because I thought the first one was way off. But I think after three, I should just accept the obvious truth.

While I don’t really agree with any of the candidates on the direction the country should head, a majority of my value system is wholly Democrat.

For a boy raised as a Libertarian/Republican, this scares the ever-living crap out of me. Not because I would mind being called a liberal, but because everyone in my family is a staunch Republican.

Has the conservatives slid so far to the right that the left is in the middle now? That is crazy.

This country is sliding alright. I don’t know what direction we are all going, but that shit is whack, yo. We are sliding, and the direction is down.

I still think I am conservative. Deep down. I guess my conservatism has been abandoned by the party that used to represent conservatism.

If I ran the country - I know what I would focus on. And it is not what the majority thinks we should be focusing on.

Making this country survive the next 100 years without turning it into a fascist nanny state. Focusing on getting us back in a production mode as a country. Education, Healthcare, investments in our future, fucking lobbyists be damned… focusing on what is inside our country versus what is outside of it. Our foreign policy should be on investment, not war. On education, not killing. On how we can survive as a species for the next 100 years without mass genocide occurring in some part of the world. On how we can build a future that is not bleak, but bright. A future with us focusing up and out. We just have to be smart about it.

And all the old fuckers in office now just don’t get it. We don’t understand as a country, a united people, that we are the ones that have to fix the last 40 years of our parent’s and grandparent’s mistakes.

The stronger we are inside our borders will have the end result of making us stronger outside our borders.

I have no idea why that is not obvious to everyone else.

I think everyone is sheltering themselves from the horrid world. Building up emotional and mental walls to protect them from the truth… that they are not a part of a future thinking society anymore.

We are mired. So how do we get the hell out?

I think I know. And I think many other people know.

But we do not have representation. So we are collectively disenfranchised. As a generation… we are stuck making a choice. Abandoning our ideals for the existing system, or holding onto our ideals and being eternally frustrated. Because what will our votes do? The system is not in control… it has suffered from bloat.

Bloat in a coding sense. It is bloated with excess laws, excess legislation, excess everything. The core is intact, but barely.

We should strip the system down to the core again and optimize.