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Her way of speech is far superior than that of average people logging in here. Besides the obvious great, and expensive, I believe, education I think it's the Florida climat that makes your mind liberated and enable to express so freely and distinguishly.
Also I admire her opponence to socialism in disputes, too. 
thank you. but ironically, i am a socialist! well, a social democrat in many ways; i'm a registered green. i believe in creating social equality through the development of social programs for all members of society, including social security, universal healthcare, and an increase in government funding for education. i believe it's society's responsibility to ensure the welfare of each man, woman and child. however, i believe changes must be made from within the government apparatus--in other words, socialist evolution vs. socialist revolution.
i also believe there is a place for capitalism in society, although it must be regulated and adequate wages paid to workers. i have no problem paying taxes if they are going into a fund to develop social programs, something which our country sorely lacks.
it took me many years to determine my political beliefs and the above is a VERY short summary of them. i started off as a republican when i was 9 (the 1984 elections were around my nov. 2 birthday and since i was about to turn double-digits i decided i needed to become politically informed, so i watched the reagan-mondale debates and took notes in order to persuade my parents to vote for reagan. it didn't work.). i then became a communist at around 12-13 and wanted to start a revolution in america in order to bring down the reagan administration so america could become a communist utopia. this phase lasted until my freshman year at college, when i was put off by the campus socialists and communists, who would protest the opening of a door.
this was the final straw: during my freshman year the university bought the audubon ballroom, where malcolm x was assassinated. it was a boarded-up crack den in 1992 and in one of the poorest sections of manhattan, washington heights. the campus socialists protested the university's plan to build a biomedical research center there, citing that the university administraton were 'slumlords' and were going to conduct animal-testing experiments in the building. they also alleged that the predominately black neighborhood would be exploited by the predominatly white, jewish university if it condemned the building in which one of the great civil rights leaders was assassinated. the campus socialists handed out flyer after flyer explaining why the university must be stopped from building the science center. there were two problems: 1) there was to be no animal-testing done on the site; this information was entirely made up. 2) no one bothered to ask the people of washington heights what they wanted. during a community meeting, community leaders expressed their anger at the college socialists for their actions and for having the audacity to assume that they knew what was best for washington heights. the bio-medical research center, once it was built, brought much-needed jobs to the community and turned a crack den into a beautiful building of which the locals could be proud. there is a memorial to malcolm X in the foyer. basically i realized that there is too much condescension within the far, far left movement and many of the young people i met were completely out of touch with the very people they were proporting to help. i have several other stories like this one--this certainly wasn't an isolated incident!
so i became a democrat, which i remained until about two years ago. after becoming tired of the partisan bickering and the lack of a strong democratic platform i joined the green party. i could care less about GM food, but many of their policies are similar, if not identical, to mine so i felt that the greens could become a viable third-party if more people took action. i believe in a multi-party state and i'm glad to see both the greens and the libertarians gaining recognition. hopefully someday the republicans and democrats will learn that they are no longer the 'big men on campus' and will need to streamline their policies and devise platforms that include what they stand for, instead of focusing on what the other party doesn't stand for.
We're not? Well then who are we mocking?
