Ponderings of a Scientist

I must be brief because I have a bunch of work to get to;
however, I need to relinquish my brain of some rantings in order to focus
effectively on my work.

1) Why is it that the
people whom (or is it who?) could most benefit from the stairs always ride the
elevator? I mean, come on, my building only has two floors, unless you are disabled
(and no fat is not a disability) or very ill you can make it up one flight of
stairs.

2) I hate our bipartisan political system. It only serves to a) divide people and b) divide
all issues into black and white. “If were right, you must be wrong.”

a)
People need to be able to think freely about the
issues, to compare their value systems to those of the candidates and to vote
for individuals based on those comparisons.
Anyone who always votes a certain party, just because of what the party
as a whole has historically stood for, is selling themselves short and only
helping to perpetuate the ever growing partisan divide.

b)
How many times have you heard this on the news, “In
actuality most people are not republican or democrat, they fall somewhere in
between.” NO, just because you do no associate
as republican or democrat does not mean you are in the middle. As much as the democrats can only define
themselves as anti-republican, these are not opposite entities. Looking at the political spectrum as a linear
line, republicans do not fall all the way on the right, nor do democrats fall
all the way on the left, there is definitely more room on the left (think Green
Party) and there is definitely room all over the right for Christian republicans,
social republicans, economic republicans and those that just say they are
republicans, but can’t explain why. The
best thing that could happen for this country is for another party or two or
five to gain some say. The Republocrats
or the Democans could easily form and encompass all our sensible Congressmen,
you know that group of middle of the road voters, who work together when they
agree on a topic irrelevant of party lines.
Once we get a middle party, we could easily get an environmental
party. Oh and what a better place the US
would be when we can debate individual topics, and chose candidates that
express their opinions, instead of for the politician that best appeases his or
her “base”. If we think of the political
spectrum on multiple axes we open our thoughts to even more possibilities. Guess what, just because I disagree with you
on one topic, you are not right and I’m not wrong. If only we could sit down and have an honest
talk about our views and how we came to have them I bet we could empathize with
each other, just maybe we are both right!

I could go on, but I think you get the idea; if not read
this, “Wake UP, turn on your brain, THINK, be an individual, don’t get
controlled by propaganda and political band wagoning. We can make the country and even better place
if we get take the time to choose our representatives based on who they are,
not what they call themselves.