Let's start with Democrats, because that's what I was originally. Democrats, they mean well, but they over-focus on virtue signaling and heart-posturing, and showing how "intellectual" they are. I look at those things as how I look at being goth, if you think you are, then you most likely are not. It's a big game of showing how soft, teddybear-like, and "nice" that you can be, like you don't have any anger at all, or if you do, it's presented as the nerd in science class saying "well, actually, it works like this..." and then being pushy about the knowledge in a very unappealing way. All the while, and I know this because this was me at one time, you're just strategically thinking about being those ways to be cool/nice/pleasing/show-your-heart-on-your-sleeve because that's what society expects you to be, but are you really? Or is it all a dog and pony show.

My mom was a democrat, but she had republican traits, like tough love, and even at times, thoughts that I was "godless" based on appearance or who I choose to associate with. Democrats aren't really democrats. They are not interested in democracy or freedom, they are interested in controlling the narrative through limited speech (which is what the 1st amendment is meant to prohibit), controlling how you can choose to deal with a criminal or a deadly harmful person (hence all t he push for guns being *gone* - which I have my own thoughts on that one). They whine constantly about the cost of healthcare, but if 12 years in Seattle taught me everything, everyone on the blue side thinks they're a fucking doctor. They will spend all day trying to diagnose you with the hot-button issues of the day whether it's ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Anger Management issues, the need for therapy - yet then they will bitch and complain about the cost of healthcare in the country and still ask you why you don't seek "help", all the while they whine about how they can't afford their bills, can't afford their kids, can't afford their apartment, can't afford their car, can't afford this, can't afford that - failing to miss the logic I use which is, if the system wants me dead because they are too stupid to find a solution, fine, then maybe we as a species should just die out. But I'm not about to be a pretentious prick and impose that on anyone, I'm just going to keep that to myself, and soldier on, and put my head down while you continue to yell what stupid maladies you think I have based on a 5 minute interaction where one or two of my views don't agree with yours. Also, have they ever considered that as expensive as healthcare is, it should be exponentially BETTER Than it is, especailly mental healthcare, in this countnry, than it is. After watching many people go through treatment from the sidelines, I'm nto at all impressed, actually, I'm fucking embarassed to be an American. If this is the "best in the whole world" we're in fucking trouble.

Drugs and Alcohol are where the venn diagram crosses for me. On one hand, I feel like drugs and alcohol are a stupid waste of time and money, and I have done enough of both to know that both suck, and I did not need or go through a treatment program. I just tallied up the pros and cons when sober and figured out that pot just makes me hungry, fat, and tired, alcohol just makes me fat and tired, and other things have the power to just waste a fucking day where I could have done something more important. But I don't feel I should have the right to take that away from you. I don't hold this religious-dogma held thought that you should not be allowed to destroy your own fucking body iff you choose. If you want to be a stoned vegitable, go right ahead, just not on my time. If you want to be drunk, go right ahead, but if you drive, you deserve the DUI and all that comes with it. If you want to take shooms, be my guest, just stay the fuck home! Want to do the zombie dance in the street on something harder? Fine, but don't call me from the police station expecting ME to pick you up. This is another problem I have with the blue side, everything they want to legalize and make availiable, relies on accountability and responsibility, and we as a nation right now, lack either. It doesn't come from a "god", it doesn't come from "education", it comes from WITHIN! And until we as a nation figure that the fuck out, nothing is going to change!

Which is another alienating topic that exhibits this the best, Feminism. Which also is why I hate the republican party so much too. Feminism was exactly what the world needed 40 years ago when women were treated as second class citizens by the average populace. Any of you with a boomer mom or aunt or grandma are totally underestimating the amount of guts and self-empowerment required to go against the grain in those days. Let's face it, gender positivity didn't exist before the 1990's, and women were seen as whiny, cranky, over-emotional babies. Now it's been bastardized by Millennials and to some extent, Gen Z Elders, to be thisn thing where women can just cry wolf any time a man does anything they don't agree with. All she has to do is tell the facism enforcers at the station that he hit her, then she hits herself enough to get a bruise, and he's fucked for life. And then comes an entire Ford Explorer or Chevy Blazer full of white knights in blue to come to her aid with a potential hope of fucking her on top of that both with the system, and probably their dicks. So the inequality STILL exists for women too, to the point that it's no longer a GENDER thing, it's a POLITICAL and a CLASS Thing.

Which is the bridge between the two. A rich woman can just say a man hit her, even if he wasn't even in the room, and he's going to be back-to-the-wall in a jail cell trying not to get fucked in the ass by his cellmates - in a liberal state. Go ahead and scream the homophobia comments all you want, it's not homophobic, it's truth, whether he enjoyed it or not is irrelevant, he's still arrested, he's still being raped. A rich man can just sue a woman for destroying all of his posessions in a rage, even if he did it himself after she left in fear, and she'll find herself homeless trying to get to the shelter before it opens - in a republican state. Do you get where I"m going here. I've lived in both, I've come close to suffering the wrath of both, and I fucking hate both parties with a seething passion. Which is the perfect segueway into why I hate the republican party so much too...

Republicans to this day, still see women as second class citizens. I understand to an extremely limited extent, because female CULTURE - not the actual thing between your legs, but the arbitrary bullshit culture created around what you think having certain body parts means, seems to have turned into this mess where you can be an overly-emotional, entitled, self-righteous, and self-important little baby, and you get a pass because you have different parts. This makes the woman no different than these bozos - the republicans - who think because they are a man, they cannot control their fucking dicks. I have a dick, I've controlled myself, even when it was very very hard to do, and looking back, it was only very very hard due to SOCIAL PRESSURES of the arbitrary culture of "manhood". You know what, if you shun and kick out these kinds of "cultures" from your personal playbook, it makes being in control of yourself, and a higher level human being in general, a whole lot easier. IDGAF what you think I am, I'm a guy regardless, and I shun the bullshit that is called the "manosphere". The Manosphere is the same shit as Grrrl Power, easily corrupted bullshit. I decided to live by my OWN definitions, and fuck everybody else. Sounds mean, I don't care.

So men decided to use the "manosphere" to counter feminism, aka "Incels" aka "red-pill". All these Jordan Peterson/Joe Rogan/Andrew Tate loving fucktards are doing is countering Feminism with the same force that caused feminism to fail - an idea that men are "better". You're not better, actually, you are worse, you're just folding the Taquito of hatred into a Burrito! You are just bringing us back around into the same shit we had before 1972, when YOU GUYS funded Feminism in the first place because you wanted more taxable workers. For you, it wasn't ever about empowering women, it was about getting more money, from the rest of us. And that's all this bullshit has EVER been about. Control, sex, and money. Because that's all you guys ever care about. Having lots of sex, getting lots of money, so you can control the narrative of everyonne else's life, not just your own. And that's why I will NEVER join your cause as a man, EVER! Because I'm an actual man, and not an insolent child who thinks he's a man because he can shoot baby batter from his third appendange. So if you think some asshole with 15 Bugattis is someone to look up to? If you think having 13 babies with 13 different women is being a man? I got news for you, you're just being every bit as an irresponsible, self-entitled idiot as the so-called "Feminist" girlfriend who tried to get you put in jail, probably because in that case, YOU actually DID beat her. If you want a solution to BOTH of these corrupted atrocities, maybe we should drop the idea of cultures for genders altogether. I know women who can do "male" things, and do them well, hell, at least five are in my own biological family, just as much as I know some men who are masters of things traditionally founnd to be "female" jobs - like cleaning the house, which I'm a fucking MASTER at, but I hate doing it because I do it so well it kills my energy because I think I have the OCD gene passed down from my mom and to my other sister - so instead of reacting to it with anger because one drop of margarine fell on the counter, I'm reactingn to it by not wanting to do it because it feels futile that I have to re-clean something again at the same Operatinng Room level because my own mind won't let me do it to just "acceptable". Actually, if one of you is, and the other isn't, that's how you can COMBINE your traits in a couple to get shit done really well!

Let's move to the religious part of the problem with Republicans - the #1 problem I've had with them since I spent 18 years living in the deep south! I used to be a Christian. I used to believe in Jesus and god, I don't anymore, and your party and the people in it, are the reason why I don't anymore. It's not because of that "jungle music", it's not because of some kind of wanton "rebellion" that I "sought out" - because nobody seeks out rebellion deliberatley, and it's not because I lack virtue (I have a whole hell of a lot more than you do most likely), it's because I am one of the few humans on this planet it seems who is okay with not knowing if there is an afterlife, and if there is, what it is. I see it as like you had us see christmas presents as a kid. Annd if it's nothingness and you cease to exist, that doesn't scare me at all. Actually, I believe what scares most people, isn't what's beyond death, it's death itself, because you just might be feeling the pain of a failing organ, or a severed appendange, or a huge headache before you choke from hypothermia as you tear your clothes off in nthe snow from your brain short circuiting. That's the REAL scary shit. The biggest plothole in what hell is is realizing that you probably could cater to Satan's whims by using what virtue you DO have to get in his favor to torture people who actually deserve it, like demented politicians.

Because of religious politics, I was cast-out as a long-haired druggie because I liked a certain aesthetic, and I could make that aesthetic work for me to make my life more affordable (less haircuts, cheaper clothes that last from the thrift or could be worn while I work on building/fixing things to save even further money). Even when I am doing financially well, I still live like this because one thing I DO know about rich people who are legitimatley rich on their own accord, not "generational wealth", is they SAVE MONEY. THIS is how I afforded all these guitars (even though they were often $150 or cheaper), THIS is how I can afford to change computers so often (right to repair bitches), THIS is how I can now finally build up savings, because I'm living WITHIN my means, and not giving a fuck what you think about what I own. This is where the republicans fail. Everyhthing they do is the same class warfare that the democrats do. Except instead of free-trade-non-GMO comsmetics and new EV's, it's some signature series MAC cosmetics and a 4-door RAM 4X4 or a Cybertruck.

The finances of both sides are a fucking waste. My "liberal" acquaintences in real life seemed to spend their twenties and thirties trying to one-up each other with the latest Audi in the garage, or the latest trend in aromatics (Scentsy anybody), or the latest trend in MMORPGs (WoW? CoD?), or the fanciest Pot crap when it became legal (Tinctures, Dabs, various smoking devices...)....it was all just class warfare WITHIN the democrat party. One that's always been there is who has the "higher" degree? Most of the highest degree holders I knew were stoners in positions where the last thing I would want is someone chemically compromised working on something! I don't want someone stoned making my car or the downtown bridge - you'd better be in sound mind and body when doing that shit.

The most dangerous ledge in this, is DEI. I like DEI, not because I like "diversity hires" for Diversity sake, but because, there are many very very skilled, educated, and SOBER people in another color than the one we call "white" who are badasses at the job. My best co-workers in the past have more often been not what we call "minorities", we get shit done! Because while all the white liberal people in the office are spending their goddamn time trying to pander to their differences like they just escaped a hate group right off the underground railroad, I'm treating them like the professionals they are, because ARE Professionals, and where you came from makes only a difference because only in America do we think that education is a "Bad" thing. And what we pass-off as "education" is just an internment camp for "obdeiant workers" - just like George Carlin said, he wansn't comedy, he was the truth that nobody wanted to say because it's difficult, and scary.

Let's talk about education. They betray you with falsehoods until about 6th grade in history class, English class was taught by people with a drawl, constant mispronounciations of words, and sometimes a sketchy grasp on grammar and punctuation (gee, you wonder where I get it from on my site), math class was taught mostly by people who were confused by word problems and were no help when it was needed, and science class, remember, this is the deep south here, became a god vs. science debate that involved a note home so the fundies could let their kids skip class. You could get a scholarship for being an athlete, and die of a brain hemmhorage by age 35, or you could get a scholarship for being a minority, because the right has kept them down financially basically forever, or you could get a scholarship for being a scholar, which was hard enough with the curriculum and AP classes you needed to take, but it was made even worse in a country like ours where education is sketchy, and then hated by all in lieu of being "cool". Some of us, like myself, found our own path, maybe even blazed through a few overgrown patches, because we had the *boring* skills, thought, and imagination, to do so. Not because we thought we were better than the system, we KNOW we're better than the system. Because we have succeeded IN SPITE of this wretched system, not because of it. This is how things like MAGA were invented...

MAGA is a cult. It's a congealed mess created by Republicans for funding to do whatever the hell they want. It's got sponsorships by The Heritage Foundation and Charlie Kirk's organization. that's all MAGA is. And not just that, it's Redpill, Incel cult. It doesn't matter what the letters stand for. PCMCIA can mean Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, or People Cannot reMember Computer Industry Acronyms! MAGA Could mean anything you applied to it, I think it really stands for Make America (inbred) Goobers Again. They look for recruits by playing to the audiences that were importantly ignored by the liberal side, because while there might be some factual evidence to some of their plight, their methodology, their thought process, and lack of education on how to function in a world full of people, are what make them useless, harmful, and destructive. And any organization whose followers are not allowed to question the organization in question, are a part of a cult. Same thing with organized religion. So I'm not allowed to ask questions, or at least, certain questionst that might put your beliefs in question....then fine, I know a cult when I see one.

Now, let's talk about some Solutions. First off, let's be unrealistic. Looking at the ideal is what works best first, so we can find a middle ground in reality that works. Ideally, I think separation per arbitrary characteristics should be the end goal of all so-called "woke" ideologies. notice I have not used the word "woke" until now. I know it's fun for the liberal side to print posters, protest, and have a meaning to their lives that feels bigger than working or finding a passion outside things that require other people to be emotionally and socially invested, but the end of all these causes, should end in INTEGRATION of people into our society like the rest of us, all equals. No excuses. I feel like I'm already there, and the world is an 8088 computer that's lagging behind me and the handful of people I know who are also there. This is where the cliche would be to list all my personal experiences with those cast out, but the truth is, I'm already doing it, and I hate virtue signaling. And unless you're knocking me in real life because you don't think I'm "doing enough" because to me it's just another person I'm hanging out with, just another day, and were exchanging respect like civilized people, and I'm not singling out arbitrary differences to make myself look "cool" to you, then you can kindly fuck off. I'm not changing for you. These are friends, these are family, these are bandmates. Sometimes the best form of integration, is to drop all the differentiation altogether. That is how the republicans and democrats have been dividing us - one uniparty. Palestine and Isreael, I wish em' both the best, but fuck em' both too. I think it's entirely pathetic to think your spirituality is a means to genocide. The only reason I'm a misanthrope is like all misanthropes, we're just dissappointed idealists who've lost faith in humanity. The faith is lost due to what we witness in real life like a broken record. Call me "woke" all you want, I'll wear it with pride, just like if not having 5 kids by fourty and actually enjoying sex with female your wife is "gay", then I'll keep waving the rainbow flag and just include myself this time. What you do in your bedroom and with whom as longn as it's consentual, is your own damn business.

As for religion. The separation of church and state in America is a MUST! We are a MELTING POT! I've had friends, acquaintences, co-workers, and people from all walks of life with regards to this. To steal a quote from George Carlin "keep thy religion to thyself!". I see religion and spirituality as being a bit like sex, it's only between you, and who you percieve, or what you percieve, to be your maker. I look at religios things from a scientific perspective these days - on my own terms. If you want a diverse, successful, bustling populace, you need to allow people to believe what they want.

A common discussion is capitalism. This is a HUMAN problem, and a big problem that also is a great segueway back into reality. When I was a kid, and learned about "rich people" - I was very young, like 3 at the oldest, I asked mom before bed what would happen if someone became so rich they could buy the whole country. She answered to me "well, then I guess he'll take over the country then", which then my followup question was "but what if he's a bad man", only to be followed up with "well, let's just hope he's a good man, plus I think we have protections against that". well, that's what's happening right now in this country. Donald J. Trump has used Elon Musk's finances to rig the 2024 election, aided by the democrats kicking Joe Biden out of the race - a quiet guy whose done nothing wrong and we the people knew was a safe bet, if a bit boring (to me, boring is good in utilitarian things like politics) - and leading us down a path we are in now. We are owned by billionaires now. We are not free in ever increasing ways. And sometimes, looking back at history classes, the questions I never asked because I did not think to yet, I have to wonder if we ever were.

A realistic fix is this. State the endgame of EVERY Goal we have as a nation FIRST. And work towards them. They might never end, and it may seem fruitful, but let people know, and fully understand, that this is us working hard to justify how humanity can be, or possibly even is, the top of the food chain - by SHOWING IT! Action, not words. Here's some more realistic ideas for solutions from where I"m standing. I'm sure they would need more fleshing out and improvement because I am in no fucking way a bloody politician, some bordering on unrealistic... but I know enough to have decent ideas....and 1st amendment rights!

Immigration - Immigration was made a problem by the Trump administration. Prior to his entry into politics, it was a minor problem lower down. But now that we have assembled a group of racists as a form of enforcement, and it's harming our ability to be productive in things like agriculture, and the jobs most Americans seem to see themselves as "above" for some reason, even as a know-nothing teenager, the so-called "illegals" are actually a part of our ecosystem, like it or not. They would come to America, work for the farmers, and take money home. If you want immigrants to come in and become Americans, then you need to give them a REASON to want to change over, and give them a process of coming over that doesn't feel like an internment camp. Learning a new language is hard, I'm trying to learn Japanese right now for my own fun and benefit (video games), and I can imagine trying to learn English from Spanish could also be difficult, I struggled in Spanish class, and Spanish is easier to learn than Japanese is. The current regime being racist pedophiles who committed treason on multiple occasions isn't going to attract people, if anything, it's going to scare them away. And I'm sure those people are thinking "Good" - but it's a bad thing. Also, if you're so worried about the population, because nobody wants children or can afford children anymore, maybe these immigrants might bring some fresh prespectives over and increase our numbers if a huge population is so important to you.

Capitalism with Limits - To prevent this sort of thing from happening again, we should impose limits on CApitalism. I'm sure nobody b ack in 1776 could think that we would become a nation full of brick buildings full of white-collar people pumping out huge sums of gadgets overseas in other countries because of a poor financial structure. This is why I insist we have a sliding scale of taxation. I know technically it's there via income taxes, but we SHOULD be taxing upper tax brackets MORE, to make sure we don't make anymore Musks, Bezos, Gates, Trumps, or other people so rich it's beyond comprehension. I think the cap should stop at Millionaires. So how do we do this? Not through social guilt, or manipulation, but maybe promoting a culture where money isn't the central focus, aka, greed. Money is a TOOL with which you get things with. This means, we need to abolish ALL advertising. I don't know about you, but advertising is really just another grift. It also is wasteful of money and time better spent on other things. I don't buy a Fender guitar because Fender/Squier has 101 Fender Play ads all over YouTube - I buy a Fender/Squier guitar, because Fender/Squier makes great guitars for the price and fits the specifications I seek! And when they get too expensive, the second hand market is flooded with them anyway for sometimes really crazy cheap prices. So I would make basically all advertising except "passive" advertising illegal. You can print ads, that's fine, you can have a static image for a maximum of 5-10 seconds on TV, that's the compromise. Otherwise, products, goods, and services, should be bought by the people on their own merit, not because some naked lady is sticking a coke bottle up her twat - which is where I"m seeing advertising going by the time I'm elderly. Internet ads are illegal, 101%, they save Cookie, Tracking, and other files on YOUR device, without your consent, so therefore, it's illegal to use the internet for advertising. This is supposed to be the Information Superhighway, not the Information Superghetto shopping Mall! The reason we allow for millionaires, is so people can create a backlog of money over time, to retire on their own terms. You have no fucking clue what someone's life has been through, or what ailments they have due to occupation.

Roe Vs. Wade Returned - All fifty states are granted legal abortion. This infringes on nobody's rights who doesn't need it in any fucking way, regardless of what you believe. The fact is, if you don't like abortion, have the baby, stay the fuck home, and let other people not have babies. Dead fucking simple. We are not a Christo-fascist nation, we are supposed to be a FREE country. And if I'm going to be honest, having a baby harms the planet more than it helps. It costs families more money they don't have (which they will need during our repairation period while we figure out healthcare), it creates another living creature that needs food, a toilet, a job, space on the road for them and their car, an education, and other resources. We don't need more consumers, and more misadjusted people walking our streets. We need a populace of people who are allowed to live as they see fit, so as long as it harms nobody else.

Separation of Religion and State - Forcing the Bible into schools is no different than teaching schoolchildren to bomb buildings because of another imaginary being in the sky, the same people we are all against in this country. There are peaceful sects of all religions, and the religion - by "self-help" (blech, what a bullshit term) standards - is not the reason you are harmful, you choose to be harmful yourself by following a corrupted sect of spirituality. I cannot fathom, in a world where being physically hurt causes pain, that any being that could have made us, would want us destroying each other outside our natural lifecycles or real lessons like being yanked hard to be kept from falling off a cliff. It makes zero fucking sense. Things already don't last forever enough as it is, so why make the problem worse? Enduring pain for no reason doesn't make you tough, when looked at through a certain lens, it makes you abused. So basically, all my kidney stones, misdiagnosed health issues in the past, and things I"ve had to neglect due to money, is abuse through a broken system, not "tough" - though I am "tough" to endure the abuse and walk on the other side of it I guess.

Healthcare - As I get older, I really begin to realize Healthcare is in dire need of regulation. Socialized medicine is one way, and it seems to work for other countries, and maybe, if we did it, we could make it better, where we don't need some kind of massive reform of infrastructure or abolishment of the companies. After all, the billionaires are the people we "Work for" in the capitalist arm of the society, and as a part of the "machine" as they like to call it, they should be investing in their workers like they do the equipment that does the job. If a cart has a stuck wheel with a bad bearing? Sure, you can throw away the cart, but then you are down 4 1/2 weeks while a minor issue is the reason you have to wait. What if you just put $12 into a new fucking wheel bearing, and put the same cart back to work? That's all this is. And as much as I'm against elitism in education, I believe education in healthcare is VERY fucking important. I don't want someone's unskilled hands rooting around in my lifeless body on an operating table, just as muchh as I don't want an ex-cocaine addict with a voice like a dying belt sander telling me what vaccines I can and cannot take. It's not like a guitar where you can just glue the broken piece of wood back on and reinforce it with metal and put the damn Floyd Rose back in it, and no life hangs in the balance. This is a field where one small mistake, one missed second, and the patient can fucking die! Education should also allow for people to call out things that are wrong, and use critical thinking - not just following some kind of script. It's also one of the few spots where I think properly regulated A.I. could be a boon rather than a bane. I'd love to have a machine capable of destroying my kidney stones in 45 minutes with a laser lipotripsy setup for a mere bill in the thousands or even hundreds at worst, while it can do the open-heart work for someone less fortunate. THIS is what A.I. should be for.

A.I. should be heavily regulated - A.I. needs to be regulated, because we don't know what some billionaire madman could cook up. We already saw what MAGA did to our country in just a year, so imagine that same kind of malicious idiocy with the help fo machine learning! A.I. needs to be limited severely to just the task it's designed for. If it's a surgery robot, it should only focus on surgery work. If it's a A.I. powered roomba, it's designed to suck up and unstick-itself from household contaminants. A.I. in the arts should be limited and by law should be announced. And as much as I'm a fan of anonymity on the internet, I think A.I. creations should have a form of tagging to make it obvious that this is A.I. so the consumers can choose whether they want their fun and potential careers with a fun activity ruined by computers or not. This will save the industry a fuckton on RAM and GPU prices and production costs. Use what you need, use optimized code.

Shift to OpenSource - no more corporate sugar daddies. ALL systems in governments, should be OpenSource, both for security reasons, allowing a programmer in-house to patch them, and to prevent abuse. It's obvious to me, as an I.T. professional, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, corporate OSes, don't provide the kind of control required to keep a country digitally safe from the internet. They are only interested in profits, and in surveillance for advertising and marketing revenue.