Turning Into Something I Don't Like

I am not a political person. I have never really known enough to be political. I still don't know enough to be political. So I don't know what has come over me in the last few weeks, but I have been extremely interested in the political nature of things around me right now. Maybe it has to do with the people around me. Maybe it has to do with me getting older. Maybe I just want to react against the majority. Whatever the reason, I find myself turning into something I don't like. I catch myself being mad at the news, almost yelling at the TV. I find myself trying to make my point rather...loudly...to people I shouldn't be speaking...loudly...to. I find myself, in some ways, becoming my grandfather-which scares me.

So, though I am going to try to be impartial, the fact of the matter is, I wouldn't be having this dilemma if I could be truly impartial.

The President hasn't had his job a whole year yet. I still want to give him a chance, but I will admit he has done a number of things I don't like. But he is trying to champion somethings I really do like as well. I believe we need some version of "universal" health care. I have no problem with the president telling the children of this nation they should work hard and stay in school. I do not think our president is a socialist. That being said, with the way our political system has been arranged, I believe there is nothing our president can do in his 4 years in office that can't be undone in the by the next man in the next 4 years.

And as this tangential sequence of thoughts rolls around in my head, I keep coming back to the ethics lecture one of my professor's gave a few years ago. To paraphrase it he basically said: I can't tell you what is right or wrong. You will have to decide that all on your own, and when you do you will have drawn your line in sand. Then you will have to decide when or if you ever cross that line. Those choices will come in the form of who you are willing to work for and what kind of messages you are willing to produce for them. I naively thought I would never be put in this position. I would never let myself be backed into that corner. I would never put myself in that corner.
I find myself wondering if the reason I am so up in arms with current events right now is because I am starting to realize that maybe I have put myself into just this position; wondering where I will draw my line in the sand.