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[Skunks]

I'm glad I'm not old enough to vote. I'd feel torn between the vote that, having read essentially nothing on the subject makes sense to me (Nader) and the vote that game theory says is best (Kerry).

The way I see it, things at home are remarkably shitty right now. Public schools, gay marriage/church & state separation, teen pregnancies, teenage drug addicts, etc. America is far from perfect. While Bush probably has spouted about how he wants to improve at least some of these things, his definition of improvement differs from mine (gay rights), and in general I don't really trust presidential candidates to stick to what they say.

Kerry certainly might make things worse, but Bush might, too. Maybe it's more blind hope & desperation than "lesser of two evils".

As far as foreign policy and the US's image in the eyes of other nations: If, as someone (123?) said, the only change has been for the people who didn't like us before to speak louder, doesn't that mean that they like us less?