political disclaimer

This is a disclaimer of sorts. I’m entitled to my own opinion which is expressed in my blog here, but I’d like a few things to be kept in the back of your mind while reading some articles.

1) I do NOT hate Americans. I have a number of friends that reside in the United States. I tried decided not to date a girl that lived in the United States. My friend married an awesome guy from the United States. My freaking WoW guild is primarily people in the United States. I just do not like America as a nation. I feel that the way they’ve handled conflicts isn’t the best, and I find that the mob attitude that is projected as ‘patriotism’ is more ignorant and hateful than anything else I can think of. No, having the most devastating weapons on earth does not make you the coolest. Also, don’t sew Canadian flags on your backpack when you travel.

2) I don’t like smear campaigns. Insult someone face to face, undercut your opponent, lie to your voters, whatever. Just make sure that your actions are your actions. Don’t make other people seem worse to make yourself seem better. Oh no! Obama’s middle name is Hussein! Now forget that McCain forgot that Czechoslovakia ceased to exist FIFTEEN FREAKING YEARS AGO!

3) I like the idea of communism, as it’s written in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. I also appreciate the result that dictatorships have had in the past. I don’t agree with the means.  I think the Holocaust (Yes, it happened. Shut up.) was an atrocious act of violence. But I have taken note that these dictators have taken nations heavy in debt, and accelerated them ahead to become competitors on the world stage. Lenin’s “Peace, Bread, and Land” tooka decimated country and lead to Stalin and his five-year plans, which brought Russia from 1920 being primarily small villages and no influential leadership into a decisive power by 1940: 20 years to learn a century of technology and bring it to use, a feat that helped carry the USSR to a position to worry even the United States in terms of global security.  Yes, the means sucked. But take that, and deal with it. The theory rocks.

4) I make terrible, awful comparisons to make myself feel right. I’ll relate things to video games, awkward sex stories, stories of my friends, and anything else to make a ‘valid point.’ You do this when making an argument to your friends, so shut it.

 

So yeah, four steps. Keep ‘em in mind. Or don’t. But these will reappear for anything in ‘politics’. And now you know why.