the U.S. election is already heat. The impact it left will go on for a long time.
All the americans are Politics- or rather election-fanatics, most of them here are democrats, but being an ecletic ivy league college, republicans are abound. It's interesting to note how they jeer at Bush or Kerry. Bush is irritating, too obstinent, murderer, against gay marriage, against abortion, against stem-cell research and everything else ground-breaking, like a chimpanzee, and Kerry flip-flops.....well forever.
I'm shocked at how many americans actually support Bush though, anyone else in the world would think that after four years of messing up with war and terrorism Bush would get his ass kicked, but no, more democrats actually voted for Bush than there are republicans voted for Kerry. I don't know how to explain this. There was this analysis from sina.com.cn that says that the whole american is turning conservative and wants natural security. I don't know how conservatism leads to national security. I thought democrats grab more money from taxpayers and thus can waste more on TMD or TNND or whatever. i don't know. Maybe it just doesn't matter to a Chinese student? we are 100,000 times more politically apathetic. supposed to be no good, huh? I have heard several people commenting that they're gonna migrate to Canada. I think if a Chinese will one day claim that he's going to migrate to North Korea or Mongolia or wherever coz he can't stand the Jiang Ze Min, that should be a sign of improvement of democracy.
The most impressive thing is that the people here not only talk about politics, they take action. Especially the students! The students man, they are everywhere, they not only watch the presidential debate, they organize presidential debate party. They take part in voter registration process and organize panel discussion and debates on the election. Election is the no.1 subject on everyone's mind. On the election night, when I went to center city, there was so much noise. Because the college democrats are there holding their banners, flags, mascots, whatever and getting all drivers passing by to honk with them! what a sight! my friend, a girl, was totally irritated and chanting four-lettered words million times. But I was really impressed with their enthusiasm.
And another interesting thing about America politics is the parodies. From comics, comedies, movies, everywhere. One good example is Team_America.


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