Future So Bright: I’m Scared For America Oct13

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Future So Bright: I’m Scared For America

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A blogumn by Josh Grelle

Okay, so I know this is supposed to be more of a review column, but I really can’t resist writing about this, the reason I’m scared for America.

You may be thinking this is about the economy, the election, or maybe even the war, but you are wrong. The reason I’m worried is because of people my age. I myself being a nerd am more into politics than most people my age, and so one of the topics I talk about regularly is politics.

I often find myself in a debates, and seeing as how I’m a Democrat in Texas  most times I am outnumbered,  But it’s not the Republican factor that I’m worried about (although I find it rather annoying).  The thing I’m worried about is that most of the people my age I debate with are not Republican because they honestly believe in Republican values and ideas, but because their parents are Republican.

Maybe I’m just expecting too much from these non-nerds, but if you’re fifteen maybe sixteen, then shouldn’t you have developed a sense of your own political beliefs? I wouldn’t mind if they actually knew what they were talking about and why they choose McCain as the candidate that they want, but the usual response is I don’t know or because Obama’s a Muslim.

And then all of the cool kids, instead of choosing McCain, choose Obama, not because they are supporting him politically but because they think that it’s cool to support Obama. I mean seriously, if these people are going to be the ones choosing the president in 2012, then I would prefer that they didn’t vote in the first place. Voting is a privilege that not everyone in this world gets to enjoy and I find it rather appalling that anyone would even degrade it by having the audacity to choose to believe what they are told without question, just because someone told them it was the right thing to do. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I’m angry.

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Photo Credit: Pierre Metivier