A Perfect Place To Start

So yes, this will be a politically charged blog. I am a liberal, sometimes a democrat, also an independent. I believe in social programs, in education (including college) for all as knowledge is power, in gun background checks (deal with it), and reproduction rights (if at least since historically women will use various forms of birth control unsafely out of desperation, so get with the program).

  That is out of the way. So let's discuss the elections that just finished. Republicans beat the Democrats pretty soundly in this country and let me give you a few reasons of why I believe that happened.

1. Common Core: This is a sore topic even in my house, as I do have a daughter in 2nd grade and the common core math is just ridiculous. But no just for the reasons others are stating about the number of steps a child has to remember on homework, but also because there was not enough done to help parents get on board by educating them with the math and such. The reason this is important is because parent's are part of the teaching team, ideally. But if left out the child will do worse. 
2. Gay marriage: I think there is a little backlash to the growing rights of the LGBT to marry, which pisses me off, but whatever.
3. Affordable Healthcare Act (aka Obamacare): This is one of the bigger reasons why democrats lost out, in my honest opinion. Now, this whole healthcare thing is ironic, because democrats fought tooth and nail to get it passed while republicans fought tooth and nail to screw it up, and I think the republicans won that round. The reason why I say that is because the affordable healthcare act is not affordable, there is a gap between real middle class folks (which is more than 60k a year in all honesty) and the folks who are eligible for social programs. The cost is still too high for folks who were already living paycheck to paycheck and the insurance barely covers anything at the cheaper costs. There are other problems with the healthcare, like a new rule that if a child can get healthcare through a parent (regardless of it being cost prohibitive) they are not eligible for child health care plus as of 2015. This is going to be a HUGE problem next year. 

So those are the three major reasons why I believe the republicans were able to take over as a party.

I will be talking about various items that push my buttons from time to time, but I am not conservative, I am liberal and proud. I believe in helping out the human being's we live with in this country. I believe in a separation of church and state, because I do not believe that the bible should dictate politics and there are many folks who are not christian who have fantastic morals and many people who are Christians who need to shut the hell up and go learn the definition of kindness and compassion.

Later folks! :D