Life and Times of AlieMalie

I have to work for the greater good, I know this but it’s going to be hard. How do I set aside all that I believed in – and still do believe in, for that matter – for the past cycle and pick up another platform and support it? I know that a lot of people say that the platforms are similar, and they are, on the whole, but it’s the little things that made me support her.

I know the word mandate scares a lot of people, especially when it involves their money and possible new taxes, but when it comes to health care, it seems like the only way to get everyone on board is to start off with a mandate. Yea, it would’ve been hard for the first few years. Moving everyone in a country of 300 million plus people from one system to another would be no small feat, but we could do it. Financially it might sting for a little while, but we’d recover and we’d be better for it.

Is that a little thing? Ensuring that every single American has access to health care that won’t bankrupt them? Riddle me this: if you can choose to opt out of a universal health care plan, how does that plan continue to be universal?

I interviewed for a position this evening that I wasn’t qualified for in the sense that I don’t have the extent of experience that would have allowed me to be completely successful in the position. Hopefully I can gain a bunch of that experience in the next few months and build the networks further that I need to help further on down the road because I’m not totally happy with the direction that I see things going.

I suppose that’s why I am where I am: working to see that what I think needs to be changed actually changes.

I have to work for the greater good, I know this but it’s going to be hard. How do I set aside all that I believed in – and still do believe in, for that matter – for the past cycle and pick up another platform and support it? I know that a lot of people say that the platforms are similar, and they are, on the whole, but it’s the little things that made me support her.

I know the word mandate scares a lot of people, especially when it involves their money and possible new taxes, but when it comes to health care, it seems like the only way to get everyone on board is to start off with a mandate. Yea, it would’ve been hard for the first few years. Moving everyone in a country of 300 million plus people from one system to another would be no small feat, but we could do it. Financially it might sting for a little while, but we’d recover and we’d be better for it.

Is that a little thing? Ensuring that every single American has access to health care that won’t bankrupt them? Riddle me this: if you can choose to opt out of a universal health care plan, how does that plan continue to be universal?

I interviewed for a position this evening that I wasn’t qualified for in the sense that I don’t have the extent of experience that would have allowed me to be completely successful in the position. Hopefully I can gain a bunch of that experience in the next few months and build the networks further that I need to help further on down the road because I’m not totally happy with the direction that I see things going.

I suppose that’s why I am where I am: working to see that what I think needs to be changed actually changes.

I’m doing this because I’m still really blue – especially after last weekend and the State Convention. I’m also debating about the blog because I’ve realised that while this is a great way to stay in touch with friends and allow them a portal into my life – it’s still exactly that, a portal into my life and a lot of my thoughts and feelings – not exactly something I want the entire (political) world to have access to so easily. And seeing that my life is trending towards politics (cross your fingers for me Sunday evening), I think things may go private or end. We’ll see. I haven’t made up my mind yet. But it’s sad. I like love my blog and I don’t want to have to delete it and I hate the idea of further censoring myself, but nevertheless, it may come to this.