Showing a Little NIPP

I took some time off from this blog and I'm not sorry. It's bothering me that when I write about politics, I get tons of readers and when I write about what matters, I don't. Don't get me wrong. I have opinions about politics and I believe that they do matter but politics only matters when it means forming an opinion about an issue and discussing the issue in it's entirety to come to a conclusion that we can all agree on. "Politics" the way it is practiced here, in the U.S. and especially every four years around election time, is bullshit. That's not politics. That's a contest of who can be the bigger dick and the best liar.

I would like to see a new party emerge in the U.S. and call it the NIPP party -- Not Interested in Partisan Politics. At debates, you are only allowed to discuss issues. In fact, I would love to see electrodes hooked up to the candidates to give a little shock when anyone says, "Conservatives," "Liberals," "Democrats," "Republicans," "Left," "Right," "Tea-Party," "Us," or "Them" (let me know if I left something out). I also think they should get shocked if they say anything negative about another politician. Elections are supposed to be about the citizens and the policies that will effect their lives, making this about who's the bigger asshole only makes me want to shove hot pokers up all their asses!

I'm going to give you an example with the hottest-button issue I can think of.

Abortion

I do not believe that anyone is Pro-Abortion, because I have never met anyone who is. I, for example, am Anti-Abortion/Pro-Choice. I cannot imagine any reason why anyone would WANT to terminate a pregnancy, but I can imagine circumstances in which someone might NEED to, and you can too, therefore our deepest condolences should be extended to those families. I can also imagine a world in which many options are offered as alternatives to ever having to make such a difficult decision. Some of these options come in the form of Condoms, Birth Control, Morning-after pills, Adoption, etc. But I can also think of many options that should never become necessary for women who are getting no other help and those include, poverty, forced miscarriages, abuse, or death. 

In an issue like abortion we should look at what makes abortions unnecessary and what reasons one might seek out an abortion as a solution to an unavoidable problem. Those should be our pros and cons. "Pros" would be all the ways in which we make abortions unnecessary and "cons" would be those unavoidable problems. Then our goal would be to eliminate those unavoidable problems and make as many problems as possible, avoidable. This is something that everyone can get behind and humans that find themselves bent towards feelings of extreme adversity to abortion should pool their resources into the organizations that help prevent the need for them. These organizations would help educate, prescribe birth control, hand out condoms or aid parents in finding adoption families as well as those that develop scientific studies to help the physical and psychological issues behind unwanted pregnancies. The bottom line is that making something illegal has never been successful in preventing it, but making something unnecessary works every time.

Let me reiterate: Those LEAST in favor of abortions should be those MOST in favor of their prevention.

You see. This issue is not about us and them, left and right. It is about life and death, necessity and prevention. Let us all try to change our vocabulary and then change our perception of each other and the issues.

NIPPed in the bud! You're welcome.