I might not being practising due to the fact that I'm a bit peeved at the culture in general (not elca just the christian culture in america). We have a new pastor (since the old one got booted) she yes SHE said in her bio that she was lost in the wilderness for 20 years before she came back. I guess I'm in that stage, but I've been alienated not lost. Alienation turns to hate. So I've decided to take another route and just be a good person and help the world. After college I might sign up for the peace corp or something before going into law school. I've always helped the poor and misfortunate first in my life before myself. (Yes this can backfire, since my own life was in shambles 2 years ago).
So I've decided to go into politics but I can't due what I want to do in Missouri. Washington on the other hand I can do what I want to do. Anybody remember Tommy Douglas? Well, thats my political view. 40 million people in this country don't have health insurance. When they get in an accident they are sent to places you don't want to know. Small businesses in this country continue to suffer to the big box stores of Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Home Depot, Microsoft. The enviroment is going down the tubes in this country. The president is selling off our national forests. People get tax breaks for buying hummers, cars haven't gained better fuel economy in 20 years! Public Transportation is not existant in this country, we need to stop being the world's bully acting like we own the world, censorship in america needs to stop, fcc shouldn't be allowed to fine broadcasters, mpaa movie ratings are old and need to be updated with more of a focus of higher ratings on violence instead of sex. People need to get over the abortion issue. Separation of Church and State. Bilingual america by making english and spanish the offical languages. Then to stop a Quebec thing from happening schools must teach spanish and english, must take spanish all 12 years in school along with english and 3 years of another language. Make cars have 50 miles per gallon. They can do it look at Europe. Pass the first transportation bill in history that only deals with public transit (subways not buses).
Only problem is, is that will never happen in america and one person like me can't accomplish it. Why? Politics. We live in a autocratic government where there are only two parties with any chance and those two parties won't let other ideas come to the table. I'd like to set up a SDP party here but I couldn't use the words social democracy party because I'd never win. Conservatives would call me a commi. And they would somehow turn me into a Stalin. Even though the rest of the western world is run by social democratic thinking (they use FDR as a model) we can't have that noo that would be communism.
The other plan I have is to become mayor of Pt. Roberts, Washington. Why Pt. Roberts? Its a defacto community in that in order to get to the U.S. you need to go into Canada take a half hour ride thru White Rock and re-enter into Blaine, Washington. But starting in 2007 Pt. Roberts which is an AMERICAN TOWN will be treated like a CANADIAN TOWN in which all 1,500 residents will have to pay 500 bucks to get into there own country. That means kids going to school will have to pay 500 bucks to get this card because school for them is in Blaine. Bush has effectively succeded Pt. Roberts and the triangle in Minnesota to Canada because of this law.
