Election days

If you haven't heard [apparently because you don't live in the U.S.; don't like politics; or, just plainly don't care], the U.S mid-term elections are taking place on the 7th of November. That's just a few days away. The mid-term elections are the platform for contesting a portion of the seats in the U.S. Congress. Very reasonably, elections to seats in the U.S. Congress are staggered so that there is no lacuna in Congress eliminating the need for its dissolution or significant interruption.

The stakes are very high this time. The previously Republican Congress is due for a shift in the balance of power to the other major U.S. party - the Democrats. The verbal barbs are out; the stakes are high; and the campaigns are ugly in many senatorial districts. What is remarkable to me is how polar the Democrats and the Republicans appear to be. How is it possible to stick to granting or denying federal funds for stem cell research; accepting or rejecting the recognition of same-sex marriages; or, sticking to the Right or Left merely for the sake of consistency in one's liberalism or otherwise?

In some ways, I am conservative. On other issues, I am clearly liberal. Society has pillars that need to stay constant. In the same way, society has pillars that need to be flexible enough to move - for the benefit of society itself. America is polarized by this conservatism/liberalism vistas. It permeates the minds of the common populace up to the elite chambers of the Supreme Court. I think it is absurd. It is perhaps why I have no stomach for politics; only for revolutions. I wish most of society would cast away its ideological branding; we might all the better off for it.

Nevertheless, enjoy the political show!