The Arcane and the Obvious

I wasn't going to be partisan. Not here.

But there are a couple of things I did want to say on the matter of the election.

Frankly, I didn't care much for either Bush or Kerry. However, I dislike Bush more and I felt that I would make that statement more clear by voting for Kerry.

Had I not felt so strongly, I would have voted for the Green Party candidate. Their platform of sustainable agriculture and renewable energy is far more important to my worldview than expanding the American empire.

I think the war in Iraq was a bad idea, although now that we are in it I feel strongly that we should not back down or back out until we have done our best to achieve our goals.

It kills me to see people picking apart the strategies of the political parties and labelling each other as misguided. I hate the smugness of each side. The elitism. The condescension.

You know, we're all highly evolved humans with very individual experiences. We all have freedom to choose. In an imperfect system with only two choices, things do start to look as though they are black and white. But it's so much more complex than that.

Read your own party's platform. I'll bet you can't get through it agreeing with everything.

Now read another party's platform. And another.

Don't they all have good ideas?