Let's Blog: Politics in American Society

Yo,  I haven't mentioned this before, but I adore anime. In fact, in one of my favorite sci-fi film's titled, 'Akira,' Neo-Tokyo's depression is similar to a black hole, democratic capitalism consuming the city. To save you from my radically left spew, I'll explain the U.S.' political parties and my views on them (I promise this is all related).       In a futuristic Tokyo envisioned by Katsuhiro Otomo, the effects of nuclear war are very apparent; religious revitalization fills the street with protest, troubled youth, drug crises, and the government portrayed as a table of angry men hoping to keep citizens in the dark. Especially about their mysterious testing on three children who's nuclear radiation gave them super abilities. Beside the fictionality, sounds awfully familiar. The United States uses a multi-party system such as the Democratic, Republican, Green etc. However, the country has seen only Democratic and Republican presidents, majority of it...

 Yo,         This is Mychal May, a 17 year old person living in Washington! Although my blog is a requirement for my AP Government class, know that I am also really excited to find the intersections between sociology and political science.          When I first got my political ideology test results back, I felt myself enter a defensive state out of bewilderment: a Disaffected Democrat. Perhaps it was the "Disaffected" that offended me the most; my skin color and gender make for a person that is anything but disaffected when living in America--scratch that, any place in the world. However, Typology, the site in which I took the test, provided me with a description that I related to the most when compared to any of the other political ideologies.            I cannot describe the exact time to which I began to identify as a democrat, and or liberal, but my sense of empathy, community, and my und...