Holiday cheer, holiday politics, and holiday sick. Top it all off with way too much egg nog and almost nothing to do, and you have Chris’ 2007 holiday season. And other than about the sickness, I’m not complaining.
Yesterday I woke up and was shocked and very excited to see that Independent U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman endorsed Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain. Lieberman is my favorite former Democrat, and a great supporter of the War in Iraq.
It is time I endorsed a candidate. It won’t do anyone any good, but I shall do it anyway. Everyone ready? Being a proud Independent, I shall endorse a candidate from both parties.
I endorse Sen Obama for the Democrat ballot. I endorse Sen McCain for the Republican ballot.
There, did it.
Now, if you are at all a normal teenager the above bored you. Not because I wrote it, but because you think politics are boring, or for adults. Like, hello, for ppl who can vote, right? I can’t sit here and yell at you about why politics should excite and interest you. But I will explain why politics excites me, and maybe you will catch at least a new view.
You are one of the humans that finds yourself a citizen of the greatest and most powerful country in the world. If you live in a democracy other than the U.S., you most likely have a government modeled after the United State’s, and share the strength of the U.S.
The government secures your freedom, and supplies you with endless amounts of services and safeguards. It protects you from other country’s products and other country’s militaries. It protects you from poverty, hunger, and ignorance. But most important of all, it protects the freedom that you were born with.
Nothing is more dear to me, nothing more important to me, nothing I’d rather give me life for more, than freedom. And before you jump of me for not saying God, let me say: Everyone that has died a martyr has died in the cause of freedom of religion, refusing to give up their rights and conform to tyrants.
I love politics because I love the United States. I love the United States, because I love freedom. I believe that all are born with the desire to be free. “All men die, only a few truly live.” –Braveheart
Those that rule our country—politicians—are responsible for securing our freedoms, and supplying us with the privileges and safeguards that we all take for granted. Us as citizens are all responsible for choosing who these rulers will be. So in fact you and I are responsible for keeping this country free, and thereby great.
And just because you can’t vote means very little. You all have adults and older friends in your life, everyone of them can be potentially influenced by you on how to vote.
By sitting around and thinking politics are boring, we are putting government—our freedom—in the hands of those who do involve themselves in politics. If our government fails and our freedom is lost, much of the blame will be on those who did nothing to prevent that from happening.
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This weird photo was taken by an anonymous annoying person yesterday and shall serve to amuse the less intellectually bent of my readership ;)
