politics

HIYA!

And I never got around to voting! I intended to when I got here but it was too early to register online so I waited then never got around to it. Boy. I'd'a voted for some drastic change.

Impeach Bush and Cheney? Sure. Why not.

I've been watching and listening to mostly left-wing media and boy the things they say .... I've been listening to a guy named Noam Chomsky quite a lot and he's got the most damning things to say about the US gov't that I hear regularly. Democracy Now! is one that I watch almost every day on the internet. Boy.

I've long been left-leaning. When I was about 20 years old and the US was doing things in Nicaragua I went to a lecture at a public library in SF. I wasn't sold on all the things that I was hearing and reading at the time but I was really really interested. Then when I joined the Navy and went to the Philippines I read The Philippine Daily Enquirer nearly every day. A columnist in this paper also damned almost every day Americans in gov't, the US military, multinational corporations, and others. I wasn't sold on all that he wrote but was, again, really really interested. Before I quit the Navy, I wanted to change my job and get out of the boring one I was doing. I wanted to be in the intelligence field because, in large part, I wanted to get a better feel regarding all these charges against the US. Never was allowed to get into intel. So I quit the Navy.

Now, I'm pretty much convinced that there's a lot of truth being told on the far left. Sure, some people are making things up. Can't believe everything you read and hear, for sure. But I feel there are lots and lots of things that some influential, powerful people don't want to get out into the general population.

I haven't yet gotten involved in doing anything positive. Don't know when I'll be ready.

Troy.