The Gap Widens

Thinking back on how this past week has gone with the election and everything having transpired (yes I know this is late but it's here now isn't it) it's a little hard for me to grasp that it's been just that. A week. The election shook me harder than I expected, i'm not anti-republican, but i'm in no way conservative. Problem solving is compromise. Politics are compromise.

Looking at the maps of counties across the country after the election really unsettled me

The closer you are to a big city, the more likely it is that your area is democratically ruled. That says to me that our rural areas are going to stay conservative and feel out of touch while the urban and suburban areas are going to keep socially and politically progressing and leaving the more rural areas in the dust. It's unfair. Theres a huge divide between rural and urban america with social politics that just shocks me. Dismissing blatant racism, sexist, and xenophobia is just unthinkable to me. Growing up in Austin it seems shocking to me that there are places where that is still ever allowed. It's just so starting to see that as a nation we are more divided than I ever thought

This election changed me. 

Neverending Search

This article here on the conservative political blog Big Jolly Politics took me what felt like an eternity to find. I don't know what it is about political blogs and giving wishy washy opinions but this was the one I finally found that I felt I could have some sort of commentary on!

Basically the jist of the article is stating that Trump's whole presidency got pushed by the media further than anyone thought was possible and in the opposite way intentioned. It's insane because this a conservative blog and even seeing them like call him out is unexpected. Like, I said, me and blogs aren't meshing the way me and my online newspapers mesh. He complained about a rigged election and all of this nonsense and then won anyway! This is nowhere near long enough what a lame attempt.

The never ending Obamacare debate

Ever since Obamacare was incanted all anybody has done is complain. Prior to the initial price increases everybody was so excited and proud to be living in a country where "everyone could have health insurance". The second prices started to go up, the tone changed and we landed where we are today - or - people assuming that this expense is all that Obama has left us after his eight years (which is just bull). The thing that people don't seem to understand about even how LIBERALS see Obamacare is not really all positive. In all honestly, yes Obamacare has huge problems, but that doesn't change the fact that its enactment was so progressive and genuinely fair for all. The intention was too pure for me to reject the idea of socialized healthcare as a whole. I'm for The Affordable Care Act and its principles and intentions, meaning while I support the Act I also support revisions on the Act to make it accomplish what it put out to.

https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/11/a-better-way-to-fix-health-care/

This article was just a nice because since this political society is mainly bipartisan, compromise is always going to need to be reached. Republicans don't want to loose the complete idea behind Obamacare they just want to go about it differently and hey, why not try? If it works and accomplish the same main goal that's what really matters.

Political parties aren't the end all be all pepople.