You´re all crazy!!
To set the record straight, I am
#1. a Christian and
#2. for the most part, poltically liberal.
Somewhere along the line, it was decided that these two things are by their very definition incompatible. Liberals think Christians are close-minded and hypocritical. Christians think liberals are morally deficient and hypocritical. And I get the insanity from both sides, especially as the election gets closer.
I have heard my Christian friends say, "well, if John Kerry wins, it will only mean we´re one step closer to the appocalypse, which will scorch the earth, but end with us living with Jesus forever in Heaven."
I have heard my friends in Che Guevarra tee-shirts say, "well, if Bush wins it will usher in the proletarean revolution that much faster, toppling the corporate-facist political machine and leaving us in a world full of peace, freedom and equality!"
At least it´s good to know that everyone is working towards the same goal -- peaceful oblivion after the already pre-written victory of their own side. Do any of you people actually stop to think you might not be completely and absolutely correct? Ever think it might help everyone if you ventured out from your own private idealogical clubhouse to work together with the kids across the yard? No? I guess I´ll stick to being a contradiction, then.
P.S. -- the next thing I post will be about the Italy trip. Unless it´s about the soccer game I´m playing tonight.
posted by Aaron @ 7:16 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Aaron,
I might suggest that the title is a tiny bit inflammatory and would be more accurate if it read "We're" and not "You're". It would serve us well to remember we are all in this together.
dad
I would have to agree with you Aro. In all truthfulness, I don't think electing either president will bring us any closer to a state of peaceful oblivion. In fact, I have huge problems with both of them so it's down to choosing the lesser of two evils. We should start a club....the Contradiction Club....we can make shirts.
I tend to forget that not everyone understands the tone the same way that I do. I sort of intended "you´re all crazy" to be a big over-reaction, like a line someone would say in a movie. I didn´t intend come off as viewing the American public from a distant (Spanish?) vista and accusing them of lunacy.
I know that most people who read this webpage probably agree with me wholeheartedly (and I think shirts would be a great idea!). I just wanted to vent, and also maybe let off some of the aggressive steam that I feel coming from all this political tension.
Neither candidate can change the course of this country, but maybe together as citizens (wearing tee-shirts) we can together.
Aaron, I am glad that you know what you believe and why you believe it, I think that the contrary is the problem with a lot of Americans today, they believe in a side, wether it be political or religious, just to do it, and they don't really know what they are saying they stand for!
Amber
I´m not sure that Europe necessarialy wishes we had a more "liberal" government, at least not any more than Americans wish they had a more "conservative" government . . . not domestically at least.
That said, most of the Europeans I have talked to tend to think that President Bush is a joke (you should hear the pronunciation of Bush in Spanish, it´s just kind of funny) and certinally the war in Iraq is very unpopular over here.
In terms of the war at least, I think that Europeans are more sensetive to it than Americans tend to be as 1). images of war are not as censored over here and 2). a significant portion of the population can still remember wars on their home turf! Franco´s dictatorship was still in power here in Spain until 1975, so all the adults here lived through that.
The big thing in Spanish-American political relations of course was the terrorist bombing in Madrid (I actually rode the metro there . . . kind of crazy). I´ll write more soon, need to leave now!
Right, so the election upset here in Spain after the train bombing in Madrid:
The way I heard it in the United States was that the Spanish people were scared by the attack on their own country into voting the more conservative, U.S.-allied administration out of power and electing the candidate who promised to get Spanish troops out of Iraq instead.
But the way I understand it from being here is that the reason the conservative (Popular) party was voted was from office was because the Spanish people were upset that they had first tried to spin the bombings by telling everyone saying they were the action of the ETA and not Al Queda, which no one appreciated very much.
Hope this makes some ammount of sense.
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