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Politics

Well, I guess it is time to re-evaluate my basic beliefs about people. How can I be so disconnected from what so many people think? You'd think I would be used to this idea. I'm sure lots of people will talk about trying to improve get out the vote efforts, increasing the young voter turnout, countering media spin more effectively, and all sorts of other things, but that is all dealing with symptoms instead of root causes. At this point it seems like people should be focused on better education of people about interpreting complex issues and trying to create better understanding of moral issues. How can you not convince people that are opposed to abortions to not see the problem with unnecessary civilian casualties? Of course, if it were so easy, you could probably convince more people to be opposed to the death penalty, too.

I'm having another one of those "I wish I could be a pacifist" moments...