I'm not sure why people only care about politics for about 7 months every 4 years. Some people don't even care that much. But it continues to amaze me, the amount of people who put elections on a back shelf after the elections, where it gathers dust for 3+ years, until the next election. Why? Why does the political arena only matter when we are electing a president?
I understand the need for both a political stratum, and an apolitical stratum - one is more involved than the other, based on a balance theory, like yin and yang. There has to be one for the other. But really? People don't seem to care... at all. Taxes, national security, energy policy, gay marriage rights; everything affects everyone. If we make gay marriage legal, it means that those individuals (who were previously taxed as individuals) now get the tax benefits of being married. Which means that the money the government was getting from them is going to have to come from somewhere else. Granted, it will be minimal - the tax increase per person would be negligible, but, it still has an affect - because we live in a community.
But we seem to have lost that sense of unity. Notice that it's part of the word community. There's a reason for that. Maybe that's my biggest criticism of America right now - we live in a world of greed and personal gains. Not of community. What happened to the days when neighbors would bring food to one another, when you lived within walking distance of the grocery store - and actually walked, when people said hi to one another on the streets, instead of avoiding eye contact? Where did it go? And how do we bring it back?
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