I am relatively new to the political scene, only really having an opinion of my own for the last few years. However, in my ideological youth I have started to realize that politics seems to only be driven by hate, and not ideas; which is something I cannot understand. I don't understand why some one's background, education level, religious faith and ideal system makes them less worthy of a good idea then the next. I am from Chicago, raised in an entirely different world than my wife; she was raised on a dairy farm in Southern Idaho. Yet, somehow we seem to come together and live a happy life built on mutual respect for one another's ideas (well, that and the fact that she is my wife and could very easily beat me up).
People are not dumb because they think differently - a little caveat I picked up in 8th grade political science. A class by the way, that indoctrinated me in the ways of the Democratic Party, later I went to one of the most conservative universities in all the land (enough of the right to even make my father speak up). Yet I can still see the best of both worlds and value the opinion of both parties. Call me crazy, but I thought that was the point.
One of my favorite writers summed it up like this: "You hate us because you think, we think you're stupid. We hate you because we think you're stupid." An unfortunate observation of American Politics.
Our Fathers would be proud.
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