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Liberals and Conservative or How I Learned To Stop Sweating It and Loathe The Election

You ever sit down and listen to the rhetoric? All of it? From all camps? From the Republicans, the Democrats AND the Independents? From the Conservatives, Centrists AND the Liberals? From the Catholics, the Protestants, the Jews, the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Pagan, the etc. etc. From the Men and the Women? From every colored race and every color in between those colors?
It's a little disturbing and disgusting.
See, what I think places like Europe and Canada, our friends in "Democracy" fail to ever fully comprehend is just how many of us there are in these 50 states and how all of us have very different opinions on a WIDE range of religion. I don't feel places like Canada or England or Germany or France can truly comprehend because while they, too, have people with a range of opinions, I suspect they don't have quite as many.
Also, their history differs from us in some very important fashions.
Part of why other countries are doing better than us in certain fronts (such as environmental) is because they lack a certain diversity of thought that you can only find in America, in part, perhaps, because we not only allow but WANT people of every opinion to find a public forum for their thoughts. We take glee in the battle. For some of us, the argument is more academic, for others it's a gut feeling, but here in America, we urge our people to be truthful and honest. (Yes, I know the press isn't truly free. Yes, I know that the mainstream media does squash certain facts, certain perspectives. Know what? They get out anyways. Whether we're reading it through the power of the internet, through local zines, through discussions with other like-minded individuals, many if not all of the facts have gotten out.) And we, the little people, secretly cheer every time another fact gets leaked.
Some people across the world believe we take our freedoms for granted. And, in good times, we probably do. But, in a way, this last mostly four years has been an exercise in how free we truly are. Yes, after 9/11, Bush and his cronies took away alot of our rights and did hell to our foreign relations. We went to war without proper cause and we screwed up in a number of other important ways. But America is bouncing back. The Pariot Act is slowly but surely being gutted and as for the idea of attacking Iran or Korea or any other country? I suggest that, after the mess Iraq became, we will not go so quickly into war again.
It's interesting to see the number of reasons to or not to vote for a president. Some people believe that Kerry's attacks on the war on Iraq are actually attacks on the kids fighting the war. Some people believe that Bush does not have the intelligence required to be an effective president. Some people vote on the issues. Some vote on who is closer to god. Some vote on who probably looks better.
It seems to me that only in America do some of us still look for candidates who agree with anything from a modern look to a literal translation of the Bible. Does this happen in other countries? If so, I wasn't aware of that.
And then there's the constitution, our founding document. I was reading an article that stated that nowhere in the actual constitution or amendments does it ever say there should be a division of church and state, that that actually came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. I suck at Social Sciences, so I'm not sure if that's true, but I do know that nowhere in the constitution is your right to privacy, your right to do, say and be what you want so long as that harms no one else. But, then, our justices are forced to hear cases for things not strictly covered in the constitution all the time.
They say this race is a close one, that Kerry is still behind Bush in the polls, but only just. It seems like it's always a close race with presidential candidates and I'm not sure how much I believe these polls, anyways. How many voters aren't taking them. How many voters will find themselves screwed by one of the many scandals that may be going on or may yet go on (like the one indigoskynet just posted to, about a company that stood outside malls, government buildings et. al. asking for voter registration slips, but may have ripped up all of the democratic slips and mailed in the republican slips.)
Kerry may win. Bush may win. Neither may get the votes needed to be president. I don't know. I suspect neither do you. But, regardless, the whole process gives you quite a bit of food for thought.

Edit:Here's a question. When it all comes down to it, what IS the difference between Liberals and Conservatives? Is it that Liberals want bigger government and Conservatives want smaller? Is it that Liberals want more tax money to pay for more things like medicare and welfare and Conservatives want less taxes? Is it that Liberals are forward thinking and accepting of the future in terms of societal reform, science etc. and Conservatives are backwards thinking who believe we were better living in some time in the past? All and more?

Here's another question..

Is it me or is the Bush campaign getting suddenly rather desperate?

Kerry's, apparently, not a flip-flopper, but a die-hard liberal.
And his medicaire plan will swamp you in a mire of bureacracy (How is this different from dealing with the current system and HMOs, except.. you know.. giving more people coverage)?

Yes, I do believe tonight's debate shall be a good one :)