There are days I’m convinced that I need to get into the legislature.
I don’t have anyone I want to save. I don’t really see the problem of big business as a concept. I like small independent business. I think everyone should prescribe to the American Dream. I think people who immigrate into the country should work to blend into the existing culture while celebrating their heritage. I believe in the law of cause and effect. I believe actions have repercussions. I believe that everyone has the personal responsibility to help the people around them. I do not agree with the systematic socialization of society by government programming. I believe that the importance of self-reliance, critical thinking, learning and motivation are being ignored out of existence. I believe that Socialistic programs can work as short term band aids, but ultimately lead to larger systemic break downs. I believe that value is derived from effort and results, not wishes and needs. I’m afraid that society is being dumbed down and fed a bunch of propaganda about what they deserve to have simply by them breathing.
Nothing is ever anyone’s fault. If you slip and fall on the ice, the person who owns the land where the ice lay is at fault. Forget that your shoes were completely impractical and you were running to see how far you could slide. You have no ownership on the cause of your fall.
So why do I say I need to go into the legislature? Someone has got to actually read the existing laws before new ones are added. I disagree completely with the concept of a “hate crime”. If a person commits murder, then try them for murder. Love and hate don’t have any bearing on whether or not murder happened. It either did or it didn’t. it drives me crazy to see new laws put on the books for specific nitpicky instances. Just apply the existing law. If the law needs to change, then change it. Don’t add to the already tangled mess that is the legal code. Unfortunately I’m not sure there is a platform that would actually let me run on these ideals. I’d be sure to scare people and no one wants to be scared.
Everyone wants the world to be easy. When I see people stating that they want popular opinion to be the final arbitrator of what is right, I get unsettled. Popular opinion is not the rule of law, it is the rule of the mob. Mobs only work when you have no identity and I’m a bit attached to mine.