Point Of View

I started to talk to my friend about politics and the government. This is what he says, "A good issue is the media manipulation of the facts for personal agendas. 85% of the CIA's multi-billion dollar budget is committed to U.S. media manipulation when it states clearly in their charter that the CIA is not supposed to operate within the 50 states." He knows way more about politics and government stuff than me but what is he trying to say here? The media is brainwashing Americans to believe what the government wants us to believe. Is this true? I think so. 
The media is used to brainwash peoples minds into thinking that there is something wrong with a certain issue. For example when the presidential debate comes around, people are brainwashed into thinking that one candidate is the best out there for our country. These candidates say things about other candidates to try to get people to think that the other candidate is horrible because of rumors and stuff. What I believe is that politics today is based on perception of reality, but not exactly reality itself. The news on politics is a little biased, so they give out information that they decide to give. Not exactly all the sides of a certain story. 
There is not really a legitimate source that I can use to prove that the government is using the media to brainwash Americans because like I said, these things are used to brainwash and the government does not want us to know that they are doing this to us. The only sources out there are opinions like this blog..

Who Decides?

Abortion. It seems that the decision made on this issue is primarily men. I think that it is wrong for men to tell women what they can and can't do to their bodies. Women do not tell men what they can and can't do to their bodies.Why should a man be able to tell a woman what she can or can't do? Abortion should be the choice of the woman. Although I do not think that clinics should do abortions after the 2nd month that a woman is pregnant. The party that is most opposed to the topic of abortion is the Republican party. The Republicans would like to promote abstinence and adoption rather than abortion or even just birth control. This is where the religious part of them comes out. Some of these people believe that once the sperm and the egg meet, they zygote is considered a living thing. Well yes it is living, but then again so are all cells. A zygote to me is not yet considered a baby a living thing, yes, but not a baby just dna. A baby should be considered a baby after 2 months when it develops a heartbeat. The Democrat party goes more towards pro-choice. Pro-choice gives the woman the decision to choose what she wants to do with her body. I think this is the better decision because it should not be anybody's place to decide for a single individual in the case of the persons body. Personally politics should not be involved in this topic and should be decided upon the insurance companies and the women. If some of the Republican party decided that birth control was a good idea then maybe women would not be going out to get abortions. But since religious Republicans do not like the idea of birth control, many women go and get pregnant and don't want the baby and abort it since birth control is not allowed.

Terrorism

How Can We Best Address the Challenges of Modern Citizenry in Order to Preserve and Promote our Democratic Republic regarding terrorism? Terrorism is not anything to play around with. Terrorism is one of the worst things that is happening in the United States. Terrorism does not only happen with people that are from out of the United States, but terrorism happens within the United States with people who were born here and grew up here. I feel bad for the President because he has to deal with the results of these terrorist acts. The CIA has been coming up with ways and strategies to prevent terrorist attacks.  I don't think that there are ways to prevent these terrorist attacks, I mean all we CAN do is just stay on our toes and watch out.

In order to preserve and promote our Democratic Republic regarding terrorism is by watching our surroundings and by keeping the communities in the know by our mayors, Congress, and President. They need to keep the American people informed on what is going on and how to prevent terrorism from happening on the inside.

It now seems that we are not safe anywhere. First it was at school, then on planes, at a movie theater, now outside! We are not safe anywhere and that is a problem. Everyone is now scared to attend big events because all of these things that are happening around us. Its horrifying! If only there was a way to have world peace. We all live in the same world, if we hurt each other, we are hurting our earth also, we should keep it calm and nice!