I try to say I hate talking politics, when not many years ago I'd love a good debate. I say I hate them, but really it's that I find them pointless. It's that I get so passionate about the issues, and my beliefs versus another's, but it never does any good. It never goes anywhere. It's along the lines of a tree falling in a forest.
I don't like to talk politics because I never make my voice big. I'm not the type to stand up and state my opinion, because in general I don't like to make a scene of myself, but also it seems to do no good. It seems like any valid point I'd put out in the atmosphere of political conversation, is like throwing a pebble into the ocean; it does not change the tides.
I find this interesting because people have been saying over the last year or so that we have a voice now more than ever...I think it's a load of crap. Things get big like this; like they are now, people go with the trend. There really isn't a single voice that can speak up for change. Some would say in response, "That's true, but the American people spoke up for change in November", but to that I say the people also spoke up for a change in 2000. Who's to say it's not just cyclical? It's the mob-mentality; people seem to think we need one thing one minute, and a different thing the next because that's what everyone thinks. A crowd drowns out a single voice no matter how powerful the message.
One of the things I've heard paraphrased most by "average americans" interviewed by the media is that "we really have a voice now", "we finally have someone who can represent the american people". How is he any more qualified to do that? How do we have more of a voice now? I must be the sole person blind to this change, but I just don't see it. If anything, I feel like I have been muted; I feel like I have less of a voice now than ever and it really has nothing to do with Obama (except that my ability to have my word will only be lessened by him in the inevitable breaking down of the constitution). It's that one opinion seems to be publicly pushed then it's hard to disagree. I find myself silenced by the fear of swimming against the current.
It makes me wonder, are people just that caught up in the media's hype over President Obama? That they are now truly able to have a voice?
