The one thing that is ruining politics more than ever these days is how absolutely polarized people are with their views.

I grew up in a very conservative household and our family has always voted Republican. My mother in particular is one of those crazed right wing lunatics in a sense, everything that the Democrats achieve is un-Constitutional and wrong. Everything that Republicans do is good for everyone. To this day, I am very uncomfortable talking about anything political with her, as the talk will get to the point about the end of the World and how Obama is screwing everything up.

On the flipside, a lot of my friends and coworkers are very liberal. They don't have a kind word to say about the Bush administration and believe he is at fault for all the problems in the world. Despite the fact that they are smart people, they seem to be absolutely brainwashed when it comes to the conspiracy theories and such, it really makes me question their motivation for believing such things. I really think, that they trick themselves into believing such things, just to give themselves more reason to hate the guy.

I lived in a college town last year and live in a liberal state in general. The love that Obama got was absolutely astounding. It's as if during the Caucuses, he rode in on a donkey and people placed palm branches down at his feet.

I don't hate the guy, but I feel the love is overwhelming, especially when you consider the race factor that everyone jumped on. I won't delve into the subject matter, but I've always been brought up to believe all men are created equal, if society didn't overly praise or condemn people based on their skin color/creed, I don't know if I would ever have seen the difference in one another. I really hate these people who preach equal rights and all that crap THEN go off and praise someone winning the office and pointing to their skin color, how contradictive is that?

When I was younger, I was really really big into politics. I loved the subject matter and loved to learn the history of our nation. Given the bitter nature of most people who follow politics, I tend to just stay away from it all and this last election made me really consider whether or not I even wanted to vote as I didn't like either candidate, nor did I feel that our problems would be solved in 4 years by either party. I ended up voting afterall, but 3rd party. When I mention this to people, they literally get upset. Why? Because I "wasted" my vote? I swear that the polarization of these people is going to drive me out of the U.S.