Less Politics, More Government

    The role of government today requires millions of dollars to influence. This is an inherently flawed requirement as the government is supposed to be democratic and reflect the views of everyone, even those without millions or thousands of dollars. Dollars, I say, because that is the initiative - the backbone behind it all, influencing it all, keeping everyone going, trying to endlessly win against each other for the green paper. My main point here is that politics is running over what our government should be. Politics is the avenue to influence government, by broad categories labeled Democratic and Republican. Truth is, I don't see any way we can bring down the cost of becoming President, or running for any major office. Perhaps by eliminating the electoral college, we can allow for some other parties to have a chance in the race. Or maybe by instituting a law where news organizations must allow for equal coverage of all running candidates. Government should be more about the actual thoughts of Americans rather than the pockets of rich white men. True, there are interest groups such as labor unions with average-income members that might be inclined to influence the local or state government, but the ones with enough power to change national government fall in the hands of the rich. This gives them an unequal amount of power over the national government, so something must be done to fix it.

Moral Standing on Abortion

    Recently, a classmate blogged about the topic of abortion. They said, in essence, that abortion is morally wrong. This is perhaps correct in regards in which women don't want to have a baby because of the hassle. However, I can't see myself agreeing with abortion being illegal for rape victims. And so could abortion be allowed for some and not for others? I don't know. Legislators would have to define "rape". It might not even help to define it if women who don't want the baby for other reasons simply say they got raped and have the abortion anyway. In which case, legislators may need to define the treacherous act further, to a point where actual rape victims may not be able to have abortions to due a ridiculous amount of conditions to be met to consider a rape as legitimate as written law. So, classifying rape to give abortions to some and withhold abortions from others might be worse than simply allowing abortions for everyone. Therefore, I think abortion should be legal.