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I believe that American politics has become too biased in regards to respective parties. Right now I am a 27 yr old, gay, white, middle class American. Based on what you now know about me you can surmise what party I would typically vote for. This I know, because I have the same expectation. I came to voting age during the first Bush jr. administration and marched in the streets of Los Angeles in protest of proposition 8. In my experience, the voices of the democratic/republican parties are so ingrained in the idea of what their parties have come to represent, that they take an almost comically exaggerated stance in their respective corners, straining against the wall in vain to take a greater position on the argument in question. I agree that each party does contain inherent ideas with which they have become synonymous, but all I see are people emblazoning themselves with images of their candidates with no regard for what they actually stand for. The mouthpieces spew leftist and rightist arguments to their constituents because it’s what their constituents want to hear from them, but this leftist and rightist rhetoric fuels the constituent’s fears and aligns them stronger with their parties and justifies the original message. It’s an endless circle of submission and control, fear and anger. I believe that our nation is better than this. I believe that good was done during the Bush administration just as I believe that the economic downfall cannot be blamed on a single man. I believe that the more we devotedly give our support to a specific group and accept it without question, the more we create a nation divided with cult mentality, and the more we move away from the ideas that started this country. I believe that we should vote for the individual not the hype.