2008 Election- It's that Important

The focus of this blog since its inception has been on the economy and the effects that free trade and globalization have had in our world today. While I will continue to talk about these issues, I will shift some of the focus on the upcoming 2008 election. Although I often said back in 2004 that no other election was ever so important, that feeling is much more urgent this time around. I do not think that the country (or world, for that matter), can continue on this path that we now follow.

The issues of the economy, globalization and free trade are all very important to me personally, but the disastrous Republican foreign policy (or the lack of) that we have experienced the last few years deserves serious attention.

I will be shifting the focus somewhat for the foreseeable future and examining some of the positions taken by the prospective candidates from both parties. It is only by understanding the issues that people can really cast their ballots. God, gays and guns needs to go the way of the wagon wheel. The politics of division and fear have done nothing but cause internal strife and have created more and more problems along the way.

It is time for Americans to get out of their collective bubble and reflect on where we are as a nation. Renditions, torture, economic disparity, false wars of aggression- this is not our country. We must stop worrying about what sweatshop goods are on sale this week and take a good look in the mirror. Do we really want to be like so many other rogue regimes of the past and consistently endorse the worst elements of human nature or do we want to rise up and start repairing our country and the crumbling image of America in the world today? Do we wish to tackle the hard economic problems that we face or simply look the other way and let another generation worry about it?

These are some of the things that I will focus in the foreseeable future. It's only by understanding and talking about the issues as well as holding politicians accountable that any real meaningful change will occur.