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Finding the right politicians to vote for next year has become increasingly difficult this year, especially when the zeitgeist of the early 2000s seems to be one of higher-profile politicians trying to pander to the extreme ends of the left- and right-wing spectrum rather than to the centre, as Bill Clinton and other politicians have tried to do back in 1994. On the Republican side, socially-liberal but economic conservatives are jettisoned in favour of the ‘family-values’ crowd, and for the Democrats, little to no attention is paid to centrists or populists. I’ve mentioned my politics before, and it’s rather difficult to find candidates for any position that seem to resonate with me. The Democrats are too protectionist for me economically, and the Republican party line seems to emphasise ‘traditional family values’ that seem to just malign social minorities and promote social regressivism. There isn’t a strong party that supports -mostly- free economics (with some regulation to protect work abuses and ‘bootstrap’ social programmes) and social liberalism right now.

In addition, the 2006 and 2008 elections will be pretty interesting to follow, as both the Republicans and Democrats are currently having a lot of issues with their party leadership and visions. In the case of the Republicans, people are pretty pissed off at them right now for their mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, the Valerie Plame affair and the current Tom DeLay brouhaha. In the case of the Democrats, they are in a morass of confusion and haven’t chosen a consistent ideology, choosing instead to use the Republicans as a punching-bag. It will be interesting to see if some ‘renegade’ politicians decide that they’re fed up with business-as-usual and the centre gets more attention after the current emphasis on extremism.

Sorry I haven’t updated in ages…I will resume posting on this blog…and I’ve got something for ya!

Thanks to NY asshole attorney-general Elliot Spitzer, Yahoo is now requiring you to be 18 to use their chat-rooms. What a bunch of bullshit designed to pander to overprotective parents. You don’t have to worry about a goddamned chat room to worry about fucking paedophiles. Most people who molest kids ALREADY KNOW THEM IN PERSON, you fucking IDIOTS! Most of the chat-room flirting is just stupid flirting and youth expressing their sexuality…but of course these stupid parents and politicians get so freaked out that their kids have SEXUALITIES! Guess what, they DO! Get your heads out of the fucking clouds and realise that! You know who’s REALLY abusing kids and molesting them? Relatives. There are always random losers, but the majority of child-abuse and molestation cases are by PARENTS and other FAMILY MEMBERS. So get the fuck over the bloody chat rooms and worry about the kids being sent to ‘rehabilitation’ programmes that rob them of their spirits, or the kids that are really being abused instead of going up in arms about stupid shit like this.

Anyway, why are you discriminating against the youth instead of the paedophiles who target them? I think it’s because if you’re not yet 18, you’re not given a proper chance to participate in the government. However, that is still wrong to mistreat youth that way. The people who should be punished for mucking around in the Yahoo chatrooms are the fucking paedos, not the teenagers whom they prey on.