At first I thought it would be a cinch; I know who I am, and I know where I stand in terms of my life and what I search for and need to fulfill my life. But I realized as I started to write my response that I might know what is going on in my life, I might even know something about the political atmosphere of current USA, but I have no idea how to synthesize my ideas about our domestic and global issues, and my opinions about them, in 106 characters or less... I might not even know all of the issues, or whether or not an issue I don't realize is a political one is one I find important and have an opinion about.
So here I am, researching political issues, asking questions of all sides, and writing everything down on a piece of paper.
So far, I can guarantee that I am interested these issues (in alphabetical order):
- Abortion (ProChoice)
- Censorship (Against)
- Church vs. State (Separate)
- Climate Change/Global warming (Really Happening)
- Education (Anti-Stupid)
- Energy and Oil (New Resources)
- Environment (We Need It; So Fix It)
- Gay Rights (Everyone Deserves to Pursue Happiness)
- Health Care (FIX IT)
- Internet Censorship (Against)
- Patient Rights (For)
- School Prayer (Against)
- Stem Cells (For)
- Universal Health Care (For)
- Welfare and Poverty (Everyone Should Be Taken Care Of)
So there you go. It is a start. Now it is time to go talk and debate and dig down to what really matters!
