Many a day passes with Fair and Foul

I hate two things in the adult life I am entering. Money is one. Politics is the other. I hate politics not because I'm ignorant of them, snubbing them like so many people do. So many people are so ignorant of the current state of our country that it's rediculous. People don't use their right to vote, and it sickens me. How busy can you be America? The only power that we have is the right to vote. Millions of people have died fighting to preserve it in wars. The only foreward steps we have are the steps we take when we vote.
But then I think: if I could have voted in the last presidential election, who would I have voted for? I value almost everything the Democrats value. I value peace and government funding for higher education and better health care for the lower class. I value sticking up for the little guy in business, I value equality and justice. I value these things more than lowering taxes, fighting wars for reasons that change: oil, to stabalize the economy, to find weapons of mass distruction or getting a tyrant out of office. I think that to protect this country, we build a better funded CIA, and fund the institutions at which scientists may develop weapons of mass defense.
But the Democratic party has twisted their values to become something altogether different than what people are willing to vote for. Kerry in the last election was an abomination. Who wants to support public education? The democrats. Largely, the democrats want to increase funding so that everyone gets a decent education K-12. Kerry went to private schools. He studied abroad...there's nothing wrong with that, but it's the you-practice-what-you-preach thing. How can he improve public education when he never experienced it? HE volunteered for Nam? The single most outspoken democrat I know, a former teacher, was drafted and went to Nam too. He would make a great president, but he opposed Nam then, he generally opposes war altogether...and he would NEVER have volunteered for Nam. The only reason Kerry said that was so that he could appeal to the Right. But he doesn't appeal to anyone. I couldn't have brought myself to vote for him. This next election scares me too. I want someone who will try to find an end to Iraq. We need to fight terrorism with understanding and unite this nation before we try to fight the wars of other nations. I won't vote to the right, I refuse to vote left if they are as weak as they have shown themselves to be. That's got to be why many people don't go to the polls. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.

Fair is foul

Things are every bit as muddled as they were in the 70s. They're also every bit as clear. This is the beginning of another epic battle. The East versus the West. The two main groups that almost everyone on earth fits into. There are Pink monks eating Blue raisins. And there are Blue monks eating Pink raisins. Studiously I have observed. And I myself eat blue and pink raisins, but never, never have I ever eaten a monk, nor have I ever seen a raisin eat a monk.
It is when the food that we eat eats us that the trouble starts. And I'm not just talking raisins. I'm talking our religious beliefs, the food we live on, the mother's milk of our lives. The life we live is going to be hard and rough, much rougher than our parent's lives. I don't know if it's America that will be invaded, or if it is Saudi Arabia, or if Lebonon will attack and kill all of the people of Israel, or if Israel will attack and kill all of the people of Lebonon; Perhaps this whole thing will blow over peacefully and be forgotten in ten or twenty years. Kosovo was forgotten by many. I remember it only as a word repeated on the news as a child. I'm still not certain what it was about. There is no more great rallying for peace with thousands of people coming together to protest something. There is so little shouting in the streets, not like the 60s and 70s, when everything was a mob-scene-bordering-on-riot. I'm not saying I want to see rioting. I want to see people caring about the world and it's state. The world could be a beautiful place if people would step up and register to vote.