finally wrote something

actually, i've written other things, but not on the laptop. I've written with my hand on a paper, and haven't typed it up and put it on here. but here is something I just wrote, unedited, and I haven't revised it. I probably won't.

the division between liberals and conservatives. on the one side, liberals believe that big government can solve problems, and believe big government is a solution. conservatives believe that individual liberty is key, and that big government creates more problems than it solves.

But with with that comes problems. Multinational corporations would have one believe that they are conservative because they too believe in individual liberty. But this is a false dichotomy. Big corporations are just as faulty as big government. Who do you want deciding what is best for your health? Corporations or the government. Who do you want handling your finances? Corporations, or the government? Who do you want taking care of the environment? the corporations, or the government?

Both are just 2 sides of the same coin, the coin being authority. And this isn't some authority we can just call up on the phone and complain to any time of the day. This authority works through complex networks, where you have to talk to machines, to representatives, to salesmen. But one can never talk to the CEO or the president. Government is supposed to be by the people, for the people. Corporations are supposed to be controlled when customers vote by what they buy.

But are either of these true? Have we seen any evidence we can point to? Americans get to vote every 4 years to change the presidency, but look at the options we get. We can either choose republican, or democrat. And what do both sides believe? One embodies the "free market" and speaks of individual liberty, while being supported by the corporations (both are actually funded by big spenders). The other speaks of more government to protect the people, while also being funded by corporations. When republicans have been voted into office, have we seen any real effort to reduce the size of the government? I haven't. I've seen the government increase the size of the military, impede on individual liberties, and really, they only helped out big business. When democrats were voted into office, I saw didn't see the government give back any of the power it gained during the Bush administration. I saw an increase in troops in Afghanistan. And I saw that they helped out big business too! What's the big idea? Have both parties lost sight of who they are working for?

Republicans are no longer about smaller government (actually, they are now changing that in order to gain their power back. since they have been voted out of power, and Obama took office, NOW they are saying let's lessen the government. and now they tag along with the tea party movement, where was this movement during the Bush years?) Democrats are no longer for protecting consumers from big business. Now both parties are the parties of big business and big government.

The terms liberal and conservative should be stripped from the democrat and republican parties, respectively. Instead, these should be applied (they were already applied, actually): Democrat= Big Government. Republican= Big Business. And to tell you the truth, neither seems appealing to me, since big business supports big government, and vice versa.

p.s. I don't believe that ALL democrats and ALL republicans are hopeless. There are worthy candidates on both sides, who still represent the people.