Hehehe. I'm an "old school" Republican (old school meaning quite old school): smaller government, the government has no business in people's private lives (citizens should have a high degree of personal freedom), fiscal conservatism (anyone who thinks our current government is run by fiscal conservatives are deluding themselves, the way that they spend currently is incredible), opportunity support over financial support, etc. It really is old school and I know people give me a bit of a double-take when I identify as a Republican (given that I do not identify as a Democrat).
I didn't vote for Bush and I'm pleased to say that I've written letters in protest to the Republican party against the direction of the party. My parents, die-hard Republicans, couldn't get themselves to vote for Bush because they think he's an idiot (they voted for alternative parties because they couldn't get themselves to vote Democratic, while I'm ok with voting for what I consider the "lesser evil"; I did eagerly vote for Gore though).
I hate the whole hypocritical attitude that this administration has. They want democracy in the middle east but only democracy on their terms. In other words, an election that independent watchers say is fair but with a result that they don't like is Not On and a problem for this administration. It pisses me off to no end.
I want the government out of my bedroom and out of everyone else's bedroom. I want a genuine separation of church and state. (Nothing wrong with having a leader who is religious so long as the tenets of the leader's religion are not being dictated as policy to the rest of the nation.) I want a government that is not involved in a foreign civil war. We really should not be involved in nation-building unless it is a truly international effort.
Unfortunately, most of this country is not politically aware. Many only care that, at the end of the year, they have more money in their bank accounts. I think most voters are one-issue voters: they have their pet issue and votes for the party that fit that issue, regardless on that person's position in other issues. Thinking about politics these days makes me all very *woe*.
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Date: 2007-09-08 12:21 pm (UTC)I didn't vote for Bush and I'm pleased to say that I've written letters in protest to the Republican party against the direction of the party. My parents, die-hard Republicans, couldn't get themselves to vote for Bush because they think he's an idiot (they voted for alternative parties because they couldn't get themselves to vote Democratic, while I'm ok with voting for what I consider the "lesser evil"; I did eagerly vote for Gore though).
I hate the whole hypocritical attitude that this administration has. They want democracy in the middle east but only democracy on their terms. In other words, an election that independent watchers say is fair but with a result that they don't like is Not On and a problem for this administration. It pisses me off to no end.
I want the government out of my bedroom and out of everyone else's bedroom. I want a genuine separation of church and state. (Nothing wrong with having a leader who is religious so long as the tenets of the leader's religion are not being dictated as policy to the rest of the nation.)
I want a government that is not involved in a foreign civil war. We really should not be involved in nation-building unless it is a truly international effort.
Unfortunately, most of this country is not politically aware. Many only care that, at the end of the year, they have more money in their bank accounts. I think most voters are one-issue voters: they have their pet issue and votes for the party that fit that issue, regardless on that person's position in other issues. Thinking about politics these days makes me all very *woe*.