i want you to vent all of your political feelings. i don't want you to hold anything back to be polite.
be completely honest, and hold no punches.
until you can learn to say completely what you really mean, then nothing should be said at all.
edit: live in ambiguity
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ooo, interesting. sounds like a therapy experiment.
i think i write something more like an essay than a comment if i was too be truly honest... eeeyikes.
[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.]
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Politics piss me off and make me lose my faith in all humanity. It brings out everyone's ugly side. I don't want to vote for people who insist upon playing "grown up" versions of what my ciricle of girlfriends did in middle school. I don't think Jesus would be pleased with how we behave politcally. It makes me bitter to think about it. No one talks about issues that I care about and issues that we should all focus on. Who cares about gay marriage? There are people DYING in parts of the world because of disease, hunger and oppression. No one gives George Bush props for what he has been doing to take care of these problems, except Obama who gave him a quick shout out at the Saddleback forum. The more and more I think about it the less and less I feel I should participate in all this voting nonsense. That's not laziness. That's not taking my freedom for granted. That's taking a stand on the crappy-ness of the system.
As long as I can continue to worship God and show His love to others (ie: do charity work) then I don't give a crap who is in office.
I speak in an obsolete vernacular.
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