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I was in love with a future politician once. He's a different man now, but that was once his goal. I don't have enough respect for politics. I can pretty much only see a few people who are power hungry/money hungry voicing opinions that the public wants to here, choosing sides and causing the public to do so as well, and doing battle over things that you will never have enough back up to win. I hear so much about how a country is in debt, yet the people in the political movements aren't really changing it. Example, the minimum wage just increased and is supposed to do so over the next few years on a regular basis until we reach a particular new minimum wage. So, basically, the government realized that the poor people were still poor and running out of food/money/living expenses and thought "If we increase how much money they get, they will live better". What they didn't think of was inflation. Just like money that is more easily attained on Gaia causes prices of objects to go up, so is the same true for the real world. Now, the country will be in more debt than before, everything will be more expensive, and we will eventually have another "Great Depression" or like thereof. Hmmm...that was more of a rant than I expected. The point really was, I don't much care for politics on a whole because people just choose sides and fight the same arguments over and over again.

On the contrary, I love politics.
I'd like to be a politician someday.

They're not looked greatly upon while in office, but we sure do know how to pick them with our eyes closed, huh? I've studied different war styles, war policies, political affiliations and types, candidates, personalities...Sometimes the population knows the politician better than they know their own next move. In original intent, it was always for the good, but sometimes they get carried away and worry only about the next re-election.
Sad, but true.

Take for instance, Alaska's politics; the FBI had to go in and investigate the politicians there because they're so corrupt. How corrupt you ask? Well, they call themselves 'The Corrupt Bastards Club'. Yeah, it's that sick sometimes. And I'm sure we all have our similar theories on George W. Bush.

Not all politicians are evil, degrading and bad. Take your small-time politicians like your mayors. Do you have nice roads? Parks? Pools to swim in and air-conditioned/heated schools? Those are all from our political system, which I'm thankful for. Sure, there are a lot of things we could change nationally, spending for instance, but we need a change of politicians. We need to stop voting for the same party, the same people, it's a terrible process we repeat over and over again.

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Yeah, we've got the FBI searching our senator's house (Sen. Ted Stevens) for bribery by the oil company Veco. If you've never heard of him, do you remember a senator saying "The internet is a series of tubes. It's not something you can just dump stuff on,"? Well, that's the Alaskan senator. rofl
What a douche.
His son, Ben Stevens, also corrupt. The murkowski family governors? Also corrupt. There's a new governor, and they call her 'the hottest governor ever elected' and she's doing pretty well.

Namely, politicians overspend sometimes, and like I said, they tend to look out for re-elect rather than what they should be doing. You know the presidential debates right now? Well, they're claiming what they'll do, but you know, when do they get around to filling those promises? Personally, I'm a Clinton fan (Bill Clinton).