This is another political rant you can ignore if you want. :)

Last night was the vice presidential debate. Sadly, I was at a meeting for most of it, so I didn't get to see a whole lot of it. However, from what I did get to see, Biden was the most rude debate candidate I have ever seen. Honestly, if I would have tried to do something like that in high school debate competition, I would have been disqualified. Kicked out. Game over, you lose. But now on twitter, all of these people ate it up! I don't get it! He interrupted, threw his hands in the air, laughed, never listened, complained to the mediator when Ryan used a good chunk of time, and then continued to use more time than he did. 

From the sampling I saw, the debate was a joke. You can't possibly portray your ideas when you're bitching each other out like Kevin and me. That's all it looked like. But I think that's a major issue in the entire political system these days.

Politics today are centered around hate.

95% of the commercials you see will be hate ads. Maybe even more. Actually, probably more. And you know what this causes? Our country hates each other; our country hates itself. This goes right on up to congress, where nothing gets accomplished, because people don't want to accidentally agree with somebody on the other side!

Well guess what, if anything's going to get done, we need compromise. We are too damn stubborn, and it is throwing the entire country down the toilet. It seems like what little does get discussed in office, doesn't get discussed well. And none of it really is compromise, because both parties have vowed not to sway, so they just wait until they have the most people in office. 

Then there's things like the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill covers so much stuff. It's really intense. I should read more on it, but I haven't yet. Anyway, the Farm Bill would take food stamps away from a large number of people. It would do a great number of things, but this is the most prevalent for congress, apparently. However, since everybody in congress is apparently only there for the paycheck, they put off discussing food stamps just to ensure they wouldn't piss anybody off and they could still have their job next year.

Excuse me for living, but I'm pretty sure that's not how you do a job.

If I went in to Wal-Mart to work one day, and I told my manager, "You know, I don't want to work register today, because I could bag somebody's stuff the way they don't like it, and I still want to come to work tomorrow. So I'm just going to sit in the lounge and eat all day," I'd get kicked in the ass, and told I was fired. That would ensure that I wouldn't have a job to come to tomorrow. So why is it that congress gets away with this?

Here's another major thing I have a problem with: presidential campaign funding. It has been proven that whoever spends the most money wins (I don't know the percents or stats or exceptions, but I heard the study on the radio). So really, all they're doing is buying votes. This is astronomical to me. Jimmy Carter gave a speech that was on IPTV a couple weeks ago, and he said this did not happen in the past. Back then, they only got to run off of the $2 or whatever checkoff on the taxes. When you only have that to work with, hate ads didn't get run. Hell, Nixon and JFK were golfing buddies, and they were on opposite sides of the party line. That's where we went wrong. We're now thriving in this culture of hatred, ignorance, intolerance, and stupidity. If you say something someone doesn't agree with, you're automatically a sick man and you get gifs made about you and fake twitter accounts and ridiculous memes with your face on them.

But think of what could happen. If we were honestly a civil culture who took time to understand concepts and debate them rationally. That energy that it took to make a gif could be spent advocating, reading, being involved, or discussing ideas. There is more to politics than who is right and who is wrong. It is about who we trust to run a country.

Our country.