The closer we get to the upcoming election, the more fearful I become of our future. I’ve been lashing out at Leslie’s Little Soap Box, but I know that no one reads that blog, so unfortunately my ranting there go unnoticed. It’s really too, little too late. I just started actively using my Facebook account, but again it’s too little too late. Most of my “friends” there are very liberal and have already made their minds up.
I am so afraid for the future of this country, so many people want the government to take care of them, they have become lazy and are no longer willing to work for or even defend the American way. I’ve been told that I lack compassion, that I don’t understand people having hard times and sometimes needing a hand up. I nipped that conversation in the bud.
I want change too, but not what is being proposed. I want less government, less taxes and more personal freedoms. The path I see this country heading is the same route Europe took years ago. I find myself leaning towards the Libertarian Party, but it’s going to take time for them to really catch on. Perhaps the next four years will help push them to the forefront.
I really know nothing about being a political activist, but I think it’s time to learn something new.
The important thing is to remember who you are, it forms what you believe in. If you know who you are, then these political moments are events than motivate individual action (see tie in to your blog topic title), but you must realize it is the body politic that is acting. Robert Heinlein said it is sometimes more important to vote against something rather than for something.
Les, you are formed in a conservative tradition with your father in the service during the 60/70s. You don’t have to believe that McCain is the conservative you prefer, simply he’s not the socialist you fear. The american people have made electoral mistakes in the past and are likely to again in the future, but it does not change who you are, what you believe in, or what the TRUTH is. Do not despair (despair being defined as the absence of Hope, my daughter’s name).
Maybe Bush does have a sense of humor that people don’t understand, Halloween four days before the election.