Politics

It is currently 10:57 pm and it’s almost a full 24 hours since the new Mexican President, Enrique Penaneto, was voted by the people to lead the country for the next six years. Penaneto, the Pri candidate (Mexico’s version of the Republicans) destroyed the candidate of the Pan party (Mexico’s Democratic party), Josefina something something and it caused quite a big uproar. It was reported that thousands of teens and adolescents took to the streets and protested the Pri victory at the nation’s capital. Call me biased, but it does appear that the Pri is not a very liked party around here, just like the Republicans are in the U.S.

In the United States, politics seem to be the center of everything. I used to be a Democrat but switched to independent. I believe in free education, free health care, immigration reform and higher taxes, but I also believe in correct military spending. What’s the point of pouring in billions of dollars into the wars when our own street corners and streets are not safe. Republicans are portrayed as douche bags and democrats as the world’s saviors. The only reason why Ronald Regan’s’ economic policies failed in the 80s was because the country wasn’t prospering as much as the government thought it was. If Bill Clinton would have imposed the same tax cuts in the 90s, no one would have given a single shit because the country was prospering very well. To give tax cuts on the higher up now would easily be the wrong thing to do.

I never understood until recently why so many members of metal bands were Republican. Bands live off of what they make on tour and many times are living off of a five dollar a day budget. To tell someone who lives off of almost nothing that they have to pay extra in taxes to help others with social programs, is inevitably the incorrect thing to do. Now, I’m not saying that social programs are the problem or that raising taxes is the solution to the country’s economic problems. What I am trying to say though, is that citizens of the United States need to begin to understand each other. When 40% of the entire country’s wealth is owned by 1%, you know there are cracks in the system.

In Mexico, my family is pro-Pan and in the United States, they’re pro-Democrat.

I know, who am I to give my political opinion, but watching the Mexican elections unravel got me ranting in my head.