Politics: Just When I Get Out... You Pull Me Back In!

Politics were kind of a forbidden topic for me when I started this blog. I had been making a more deliberate effort to pull away from politics as 2010 progressed into 2011. I paid attention as the Presidential campaign progressed last year and tried to swear things off after the sequester stuff in December.

Frankly, I found the 2012 Presidential Election to be repugnant on both sides of the aisle. Nothing was too low for anyone to try and throw at the other party. The media also joined the fray and pretty much flushed any of their remaining credibility down the toilet in an attempt to get Obama re-elected President. Facebook wasn't any better as people really shed the clothes of civility as November neared. Needless to say, I found it all to be a highly distasteful experience. So I was done with it and I was wondering why I even bothered to vote when January came around.

Then the IRS scandal happened, I read and paid attention to that. Then the intentional misreporting of the George Zimmerman trial caught my eye and the next thing I knew, I was plugged into the political realm again. I decided I was going to remove the limitation I placed on my blog and talk about politics. I'm still going to talk about sports, movies, comics and video games. I'm just going to open the floor for some of my political thoughts as well.

So what does that mean for you? Well, I'm neither Democrat or Republican. If I did come to identify with a political party, it would be the Libertarian party. With that said, I don't support their views in a lot of areas such as drugs, capital punishment and their childish views of foreign relations. I'm a strict Constitution and small government person. In my general opinion the government's job is to build and maintain roads, build and maintain an army for our protection and to insure our rights as citizens of this country. All that other crap that's going on? Sorry, not in the Constitution so it's not within your authority.

That's a really brief and dumbed down summary of my beliefs. So be warned, politics may come up in the future at some point.