(Author's note: This article was intended to be an opinion article about the new Green Day album, but became an opinion article of another kind)
That about says it all, american idiot. This website is driving me so far out of my mind. I'm a fish in a sea of sharks, I feel like a "closet queer" honestly, here and where I live, being a democrat on JU and in rural Ohio.
Even my education is being compromised, little political snips and jabs here and there under the table (from both sides, mind you). Politics are the hot topic this fall obviously and as hard as they are to avoid, I only wish some people could keep their beefs and issues to themselves for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Go to as many rallies, flag burnings, prayer meetings, party meetings as you want ON THE WEEKEND, if any of those happen to be your calling. I manage to keep myself under control when other students and teachers decide to slam Kerry, and I don't slam back; if I did, I'd surely have the entire school right up my ass with little off-hand comments. I'm not about to come out and make it more known that it already is, though, because I'm afraid some of the people I care about most would let it get in the way of our friendships or otherwise. Call me paranoid, but it's a risk I'm not willing to take.
Here's my JU coming out. So many times I've heard certain "JU elders" go on and on about how Democrats/liberals don't understand anything, are "sheep", need to focus on other issues, are more inflammatory than Republicans/conservatives, etc. All you have to do is go to the JU homepage!!! It'd riddled with conservative slant and underhanded character judgments. Not to mention almost every stinking article on the front page is written by Draginol.
This is a land of make believe, and it sure don't believe in me.