It’s been just over a week that I’ve spent in London at this point, and I thought that I’d venture into the realm of the too-personal, too-awkward, too-everything realm of my mental health. Don’t read on if you’re not comfortable, but do know that there’s a rewarding little bit about the excitement to come if you do read on.
With all of the fervor surrounding Barak Obama and John McCain and their respective running-mate selections and their respective parties’ conventions, I thought that I would weigh in on the situation and all of the hype surrounding it.
No matter who gets elected in the upcoming election, John McCain or Barak Obama [becuase let's face the fact that third-party candidates are rarely viable in Federal elections and their position has not changed this election cycle], both of these candidates and the parties that they represent are members of business-driven parties. One of my friends, Eric B., brought this up earlier today, and I thought that it deserved repetition. It mostly just makes me think of the Chomsky quote that I put up at some point in the past; remember that these two “extremes” in the American political spectrum [forget the fact that these two could be considered on the not-quite-as-ideologueish end of their political parties' specra] are much closer in the overall political spectrum that we care to remember.
Another very smart man that I know [that my British Life and Culture teacher would call a "ginger-top"], Ben I., also brought up the fact that voting in the upcoming election could validate it, could be a consensual acknowledgment that, yes, I believe that this system is fair and just. I of course do not think that this is the case, and am thus conflicted on whether or not I’d like to vote in it. [Don't get too upset, I probably still will.]
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