You'll find out. I'll send you an e-mail as soon as I get a chance (although with We the People State Competition, midterms, Mock Trial competition and Debate Club Competition all in the next three weeks, that may be difficult...my life is a bit of a roller coaster right now). I think you're going to like this though. Maybe even enough to join my efforts.
Early Action: UMBC (got in, full scholarship), Fordham (got in), Rutgers (got in), Drew (got in) Regular Decision: TCNJ, NYU, JHU, GWU, American, Columbia
I think that one of the biggest problems in American politics is that polarism, the lack of compromise. If we lose that, then we lose what made representative democracy work in the first place, what made it possible to avoid the 'tyranny of the majority' that made the democratic experiment more than dangerous sectarian warfare.
George W. Bush is not the anti-Christ (as a young Jewish male with plans for world domination I retain hopes of claiming that title) and his victory should be no more ominous to a member of the opposition than any other victory for an opposition figure has been before. Presidents come and go. These things are cyclical. The democrats will resurface, and if they don't then in a decade or two the Republicans will split into two parties or a new opposition force will arise or some other thing will occur to restore balance to the political system.
Politics is a somewhat organic system and while Marx may have gotten his economics all wrong, he wasn't bad at understanding the cycle of history. Ideas feud till one wins and splits into opposing factions, which feud once more. The rise of a new opposition is almost inevitable in our system, as long as it stays intact. Even if your Democrats are doomed, it hardly means an end to an opposition in America. As for Gay Marriage, it isn't the first time the American people (...I hate the way that phrase is usually used...) have fallen for a cheap political trick and it won't be the last. You win some and you lose some. It's the exact same on my side of the spectrum. Polarizing the political discourse even further won't help that and it stands a damn good chance of proving the real threat to democracy in this country.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:41 am (UTC)Early Action: UMBC (got in, full scholarship), Fordham (got in), Rutgers (got in), Drew (got in)
Regular Decision: TCNJ, NYU, JHU, GWU, American, Columbia
I think that one of the biggest problems in American politics is that polarism, the lack of compromise. If we lose that, then we lose what made representative democracy work in the first place, what made it possible to avoid the 'tyranny of the majority' that made the democratic experiment more than dangerous sectarian warfare.
George W. Bush is not the anti-Christ (as a young Jewish male with plans for world domination I retain hopes of claiming that title) and his victory should be no more ominous to a member of the opposition than any other victory for an opposition figure has been before. Presidents come and go. These things are cyclical. The democrats will resurface, and if they don't then in a decade or two the Republicans will split into two parties or a new opposition force will arise or some other thing will occur to restore balance to the political system.
Politics is a somewhat organic system and while Marx may have gotten his economics all wrong, he wasn't bad at understanding the cycle of history. Ideas feud till one wins and splits into opposing factions, which feud once more. The rise of a new opposition is almost inevitable in our system, as long as it stays intact. Even if your Democrats are doomed, it hardly means an end to an opposition in America. As for Gay Marriage, it isn't the first time the American people (...I hate the way that phrase is usually used...) have fallen for a cheap political trick and it won't be the last. You win some and you lose some. It's the exact same on my side of the spectrum. Polarizing the political discourse even further won't help that and it stands a damn good chance of proving the real threat to democracy in this country.