welcome to my blog

Welcome to all of you who are joining me in the exploration of our political system and how it affects your everyday life. My name is Travis and I am a political science major at the University of North Texas. My aspiration is to become active in the political system very soon and do my part to change the system however possible to influence real popular opinion in the United States. I look forward to writing my posts for you and i encourage feedback and questions about anything you see here or elsewhere. My philosophy is based in the fact that we are all Americans and that we must do our part to ensure that we maintain our rights and freedoms through political action and most importantly participation. In recent times our political system has become ridiculously skewed and people are mislead to think that they must conform to extreme liberal or conservative view points. When was the last time that you read a party platform and agreed with each and everything that was there? if the answer is close to never then you are like most every American out there. Unfortunately, the system is set up in such a way that it only allows a two party system to operate. The political labels of Liberal and Conservative have become derogatory in our society and Americans are splitting into two radically different groups. Our country fell into a civil war when two radically different view points were left unchecked and allowed to spiral out of control. The reason we allow these issues to spiral out of control is because they are sticky issues and no one in Washington wants to get sticky. The truth is that if people on both sides of the issue were to sit at the same table and talk about what they want, we would realize that we have a lot in common. through the months I plan to explore how you and I fit into the political system what we can do as voters to help bring about positive change in Washington and at home.