by Kyle Konetzke

Created on: November 06, 2008

Last night was historical. November 4th, 2008 will go down in history as the day the first black president was elected in the western world. A minority who sought the most powerful office in the world, made it. And he did so with a landlside victory over a white christian male. The world watched as America voted, and when it was over the world rejoiced as we picked the candidate that they were counting on.

But why so many for Obama? We had a choice to make, and many seemed to over look the variety of choices we were offered. So many concentrate on a two party system and forget those that may make more sense because they're a long shot. I don't know why we vote for an income tax. I don't know why we vote for foreign wars. I don't know why we vote for someone who voted FOR the the wall street bailout. I don't know why we feel so over-joyed to have picked a candidate that the world was counting on.

America is an Independent nation. We do what we want, without relying on other countries. Or at least it's supposed to be that way. We have enough oil in america to sustain us. We have enough ingenuity to stop using oil altogether. We have enough resilience to over come a global warming trend that seems to have doomed us all. We have enough natural resources to completely sustain ourselves for our entire lives, however we out consume all other nations.

So we rely on other countries to get ourselves through hard times. These other countries then rely on us to do what's in their best interest. Hence interventionist wars, the fall of our economy, and the dependence on foreign oil.

They hand you rhetoric about hope, change and motivate you into believing, chanting, "yes we can," but what did you just vote for? A president that toured europe and the middle east asking them for help in bailing our country out. A president who believes in stealing from the efforts of more wealthy americans to give to the less fortunate.Nothing is wrong with helping the less fortunate, but forcing people to do so by acting as if you own them, is wrong and immoral. To tell the people that their paycheck will be taxed before they even get to see it, is nationalistic. To bailout those who are corrupt and greedy in the first place, gets us no where but back to the begining.

We are a mass movement, and our opinions matter. But If you strongly disagree with even ONE policy of a candidate, then your opinion is not being heard. Why not search for another Candidate who better understands you as a citizen? I voted for the first time this presidential election and I voted for a third party candidate. Many tell me that it was a vote wasted, but if we can do anything as we all so believe, then why rule out somebody because it's never been done? If my opinion matters, then why filter a disagreement and distort my point of view to better meet the views of a majority? One person cannot be asked to give into the tyranny of a majority and so I ask the majority, why do you do what you do?

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