It's that time again. UGH!

Hello blog, with elections in just a few months I want to talk to you all about something that disturbs me a lot in today's world. How we decide who were going to vote for. Now, I know there are many who logically decide who they are going to vote for reflecting on their viewpoints or lifestyle, but I want to talk about what the majority seem to base their decisions on.




I myself have seen this in my school. (We cannot vote yet however they will be at the ballot box in just a year or two.) Now, back in the Obama and McCain election, which seems like so long ago, I heard plenty of people say they weren't going to vote for McCain because he was old and would die in office. Now, he is old but I really doubt he was going to die in office. However, this actually proved to be an OK viewpoint because when he picked Palin I didn't want to vote for McCain just because of that type of situation. Were McCain to step down, die in office, etc -- I don’t want Palin to run this country basically.



However I heard that WELL before Palin was officially chosen as McCain’s running mate. I find that ridiculous I wouldn't have voted for McCain because and I quote "If we have to we will stay in Iraq for a century." Oh, and also because he voted alongside with Bush 90% of the time.



Now, on the other side of the table, we saw Obama, and the given one was let's not vote for him because he’s black. However, I saw plenty who said I'm voting for Obama because HE IS black. Once again, race should not decide the election whether it is in relation to racism or voting for the same race. I also heard many who said they wanted McCain/Palin just because Palin didn't use big words...FACEPALM.



Let's look beyond those things now to something I dislike even more – T\the parties themselves. ALMOST EVERYONE in this country sees the (D) or the (R) next to the caption of the person to decide whether or not they agree with that person.



This type of decision making frightens me the most. I believe we should be deciding who we support or vote for based on personal agendas and not the majority agenda on a political party. I like some Conservatives, I like some Liberals, I like some independents. I decided on that based on PERSONAL AGENDA not there parties they support. Now obviously the party they are a part of can usually decide whether or not you like them or not. Plenty completely oppose the agenda of the opposite political party.

However, I don’t think there is a blue print democrat or a blue print conservative. I don’t think those terms can honestly be concretely defined and listing the same exact principles. We are all people and we will support different things. Some support this some dislike this. I believe just like snowflakes no two people are going to agree on the EXACT SAME THING on EVERY SINGLE issue. Not from what I've met or seen anyway.



I remember on the news a couple years ago they were celebrating a woman who has voted conservative in every single election since the 50's I thought this was absolute non-sense. Now maybe I am wrong and that she just happened to like what every single Republican said from the 50's to now. But honestly that seems unlikely she was in her 90's the last election .Now I don’t know too many 90 year olds who are politically involved anymore. It's a cause of voting Republican blindly.



I will cut this into two parts ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow I will talk about how political parties aren't concrete.