12-02-2003, 01:42 PM
PIX, in all honesty, lay off. You call independents chickenshit, how the hell do you expect acid to react?
I'm independent too... so I'm a spoiled child? I'm afraid to believe in something? What the f kind of logic is that? I don't have to choose to be either Republican or Democrat and in fact that's my right as an American. I call things like I see them, and I see flaws in both parties. I will not nail myself to the views of one or another. Again, independents don't necessarily dilute the vote... and independent is not green party, green party is green party. It just means I don't consider myself to be any particular party, and I'll vote for whomever I want. Usually, that'll be a Republican or Democrat.
I think my dad is the reason I lean towards the right, but he's also the reason I won't consider myself Republican. He hates liberals, makes fun of me for going to a liberal college, says he'll never even talk to one (unless it's an argument I'm sure). I think that's retarded. My writing professor is liberal... I like the guy. His political views won't affect my opinion of him as a person, and he doesn't have a problem with me not agreeing with his views. My dad will not stop talking about liberals as though they are evil... like in the newspaper during the last presidential election, they showed the candidates on the front page... he said "we read from left to right... look, they put Gore on the left side of the page, and Bush after him. Alphabetically, Bush would be ahead of him, so that doesn't make any sense... they're just biased." Talk about reading too much into things. It's good and necessary to have different parties with different views. But at a certain point, the attitudes that each side gets can just be annoying. I'm independent. Has nothing to do with me fearing to believe in something, it just means I have mixed beliefs.
I'm independent too... so I'm a spoiled child? I'm afraid to believe in something? What the f kind of logic is that? I don't have to choose to be either Republican or Democrat and in fact that's my right as an American. I call things like I see them, and I see flaws in both parties. I will not nail myself to the views of one or another. Again, independents don't necessarily dilute the vote... and independent is not green party, green party is green party. It just means I don't consider myself to be any particular party, and I'll vote for whomever I want. Usually, that'll be a Republican or Democrat.
I think my dad is the reason I lean towards the right, but he's also the reason I won't consider myself Republican. He hates liberals, makes fun of me for going to a liberal college, says he'll never even talk to one (unless it's an argument I'm sure). I think that's retarded. My writing professor is liberal... I like the guy. His political views won't affect my opinion of him as a person, and he doesn't have a problem with me not agreeing with his views. My dad will not stop talking about liberals as though they are evil... like in the newspaper during the last presidential election, they showed the candidates on the front page... he said "we read from left to right... look, they put Gore on the left side of the page, and Bush after him. Alphabetically, Bush would be ahead of him, so that doesn't make any sense... they're just biased." Talk about reading too much into things. It's good and necessary to have different parties with different views. But at a certain point, the attitudes that each side gets can just be annoying. I'm independent. Has nothing to do with me fearing to believe in something, it just means I have mixed beliefs.