I Think I Give Up

I just don't know what to think. I usually have this enthusiasm to follow politics, read about what is going on, but not anymore.
This is the first time in my life that I don't want to read the newspaper or watch the evening news. Sometimes I even find it hard to be out and about and overhear others conversations. Hopefully it is just an Alaska thing--surrounded by folks that drink up Fox news and worship in Palinville. People that don't read and research anything intellectual and are following the party of "no".

It seems the majority around me just wants to spread negativity and lies. When the Democrats got mad at Bush they actually waited until something really devastating came up--like a needless & expensive war. Killing tons of people, and causing injury and destruction. What kind of country am I living in when people get more angry and crazed out of their mind about health care regulations, than having their tax dollars go to fund brain injuries & deaths to our own soldiers? How can we trust government warfare if we can't trust government health care?

When Did the Republican Party Become Socialists?

So listening to the Republican National Convention speeches last night, you could see that the obvious theme was how the McCain/Palin ticket is not "elitist" and understands the common man. Of course that is the big appeal of Palin--she's just a Wal-Mart shopping hockey mom with her blue-collar husband. Doesn't know much about the upper class and prefers to keep it that way. Her most popular move in Alaska has been the promise of oil money "kick-backs" to make sure all Alaskans share in the wealth of high oil prices.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see that these populist attitudes reflect the policies of the South American socialist leaders much more than typical Republican banter....Power to the proletarian! is the new Republican slogan...We come from the masses and hate the elite! Down with the big oil monopolies! Down with the status quo!
What gives?? I'm actually no socialist hater, but the Republicans need to get their message straight. For years and years it has been love the big oil, big business and corporate America keeps us all employed...
The Republican "think tanks" FUNDAMENTALLY believe that common people power is toxic--as their philosophy is very simply based upon the notion that wealth is an earned right to those that are chosen from the "better, industrious, smarter, prettier" gene pool. And that these wealthy folks will rent enough golf carts and eat at enough restaurants to keep the rest of us employed through the beauty of trickle down economics...yeah right.
I mean if the Republicans really took the people seriously, they would have gotten rid of the electoral college and allowed the candidate that won the polular vote to win in 2000-wouldn't they?? But no, they know that our forefathers specifically created the electoral college to make sure that the common (re: uneducated) man would not have the final say in who was elected president. They feared this notion that they now so eagerly embrace>>>