Voter ID Commentary

The Political Cynic's article, Now You See Me, brings up concerns of discrimination against minorities who do not have valid forms of ID when attempting to vote. The problem is that if they have a valid ID then there is no discrimination, and the forms of valid ID are easily found with any attempt at researching it, which should relieve any semblance of fear for getting in trouble for violation of improper, inadequate identification. Not included in the article is the crux of the issue and that is why "minorities" cannot obtain valid identification. It should not be encouraged to go without valid identification at all, even further it should be discouraged. I will continue to research why it is these people cannot find a form of valid ID and appreciate the focus of protecting our democracy from malaise.

Comments on Josh's Blog

Josh's commentary on the prospects of politicians jumping off social media especially once in office might be a pipe dream in today's evolving society, but it is one that is though provoking and also raises the question of the ways to counteract the surface level connectivity we feel is real on social media. With Americans clamoring for connectivity to their representatives in as many ways as they can get it, social media has turned into the place where judgments are made about people, whoever it may be. The positives  of an active social media presence is building a political "fan base" that has come to resemble sports more than any semblance of informative substance. In respect to the American people, though,  this hurts especially, as Josh points out it many times embarrasses the American people as nobody voted for a constant feed of tweets, they voted for real progress in the country. This is another issue with these political feeds, they can mask, or give an impression of  progress being made with nobody fact checking. In reality this could be a huge issue with the large majority of the American public taking their political and social news from sources within social media, all biased in one way or another.

Iran Nuclear Deal

Recently the United States has withdrawn from the Iran Nuclear Deal spurring numerous consequences, both good and bad, as a result. The withdrawal from this agreement comes as a fantastic showing of the US waking up to the blatant extortion without any significant progress toward the ultimate goal of pacifying Iran and containing/shutting down their nuclear projects it has been agreeing to. The only consequence of the Deal has been sending 1.7 billion dollars to a country in Iran that has a track record of supporting terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban and is even still listed as a sponsored terrorist state.  This money, even more remarkably was a direct link to the release of American hostages they had taken. Even more unbelievable still is that we weren't even permitted to inspect the nuclear testing sites whenever we wanted to, instead allowing Iran twenty four days notice, which, while not enough time to get rid of any trace of nuclear activity, still shouldn't even be a privilege granted to begin with. This is the first step, however, in deconstructing the deal as many other nations must be persuaded to pull out of the deal. Without this, the Iranians will still be extracting ill gotten wealth for its misguided regime. None of this is to say the deal isn't working as it was designed to, however, the amount of improvement needed to make it advantageous for the US and its allies is great. The expansion of Iran's forces and in turn the disruption in Syria and Yemen right on the border of Israel is a clear example of the intentions of the Iranian regime.