<p>The next time I hear someone say that a President’s honest I’m saying that they need to be in a mental institution.</p>
<p>^ Bajaja. </p>
<p>At least we pretend to trust politicians in America. Down here in Costa Rica, they openly hate their government and there is rarely any political party or person in office for more than one term. Plus, they make like $4,300 a month. That’s it.</p>
<p>I don’t know why anyone would want to be President.</p>
<p>“I hate when people just puppet their parents. That is just so annoying.”</p>
<p>A large amount of children do take after their parents’ political views. Children develop ideals and beliefs similar to their parents’, which often includes political beliefs. Also, many parents may live in a politically polarized area, which increases the chances of their children having the same political affiliation as the community, particularly is the parents have the same affiliation as the community.</p>
<p>Of course, you get things like Hillary Clinton when a child has one Democratic parent and one Republican parent (Clinton was the president of the Wellesley Young Republicans club and helped with some Republican campaigns. I don’t think I need to explain what happened later.).</p>
<p>^ I think that’s true to an extent. However, I think kids tend to rebel much more than you think. Like my parents are uber liberal and when I was going through my “rebellious” stage, I was super conservative. Luckily, I snapped out of that and came back to my senses to become more liberal than my parents. However, if I had stayed with my religion and stuff, I have no doubt that I’d still be super conservative.</p>
<p>Almost everyone I know is liberal and most of their parents are not. I guess that’s true of any generation though. </p>
<p>EDIT: Come to think of it, the only people I know who are conservative are the children of VERY conservative parents. All of my liberal friends either come from liberal, moderate, or conservative parents.</p>
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<p>Can we add the bloggers for the Huffington Post and half of MSNBC. We might as well go all they way with this.</p>
<p>I hate super liberals and super conservatives. </p>
<p>Kate you are totes cool but I definitely don’t agree with a lot of your views…just like I don’t agree with a lot of super conservatives. </p>
<p>In my opinion being super liberal just makes one a confrontational, aggressive, and worried person. Fighting every battle over every little thing to be offended about just makes people tired and snappy. Conservatives are so arrogant they just don’t care about things. Which is bad but makes them generally fun to be around…on account of they can take jokes better.</p>
<p>^^ I’m cool with MSNBC. They at least pretty much admit their bias. I only watch CNN though. </p>
<p>I’ll send Fox up there too though. And Fred Phelps. </p>
<p>Scratch that. Feed Phelps to the sharks. I hope he burns forever in hell, and I don’t even believe in hell. His hateful and disturbed group of cronies picketed my brother-in-law’s funeral.</p>
<p>^ And that’s cool (won’t use your name…), I know you don’t. I don’t ask anyone to. I just ask that people don’t limit the rights of others because they disagree with them. (ie- Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get one. Don’t like pot? Don’t smoke it. Keep 'em both legal though because they don’t hurt you.)</p>
<p>My friend wants to be an important political person and have power, because he says politics is corrupt.</p>
<p>Lest we forget Ann Coulter.</p>
<p>@DanaEffinWhite I don’t like those generalizations. I don’t like people who drink the kool aid and those who don’t acknowledge views that are different from their own. I find that these traits encompass all political views.</p>
<p>Lol Fred Phelps. You know super liberals and conservatives are BAD, but for some reason I see conservatives much more controversial. There’s a fair share of liberals in the same boat.</p>
<p>^ That’s because generally, conservatives want to limit rights and liberals want to gives us way too many “rights”. As a country, we generally don’t like when our rights are taken away so conservatives tend to be seen as much more controversial. </p>
<p>[Obviously those are generalizations. Don’t give me a list of rights conservatives and liberals want. I’ll just laugh at you.]</p>
<p>That’s probably because when the party a group (Beck and Limbaugh, in this case) is against is in power, they make more incendiary remarks.</p>
<p>^^ That’s very true. Well, the world is imperfect, and politics feed off of stuff like this.</p>
<p>Yah I’m all for weed and gay rights 
I’m actually pretty much very liberal…but I just don’t get offended. And SaintSaens…I’m just going by what I’ve seen. The only people I know that are super liberal seem to spot an enemy or offense around every single corner and it just is annoying to everyone else.</p>
<p>^ You and I are the two different types of liberal. You’re the passive “yeah dude, just legalize it already” liberal and I am the aggressive “I don’t take crap from anyone who tries to take away my rights to do things that don’t hurt other people” liberal. </p>
<p>Only difference :p</p>
<p>We need a 3rd powerful party in America, just to watch both parties try to smash them. </p>
<p>That’s it, make or revamp a “New America” party. Follow that “Third Way” somewhat.</p>
<p>I think my school used to be more political than it is now. After Bush was reelected, students staged a large walkout in response to… something about the Iraq War, despite the fact that everyone who participated knew s/he would receive a Friday school. Everyone was sad the day after the election. When Obama was elected, nothing really happened. Since the school leans left, one wouldn’t expect a walk out or anything, but there wasn’t much happiness either. More apathy than before.</p>
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