So you're a Democrat, eh?

I think I'm going to invent my own new hobby. It goes like this--I ask my friends what political party they identify with. When a Democrat pops up, I'll start pressing them on the issues that their party supports. You know, things like:

• abortion for any woman, at any stage of pregnancy, without the approval of people who matter (you know, like minors' parents)
• raising taxes to Big Government
• gun control (that only is abided by...law abiding citizens)
• skipping over drilling for oil in more places on our property, so while the private sector invents alternative fuel, we keep buying from the middle east
• etc. etc. etc.

I feel as though, especially among young voters (or close-to-voting-age high schoolers), people just don't understand the consequences of liberal policies. I knew a guy who told me, "I identify most with the Democratic Party," but upon pressing him for issues he sided with, he had nothing. This from a guy who can vote in two years.

It seems as though the only issues that the everyday high school or college student cares about are (1) gay marriage, and, more recently, (2) the health care bill. That's it. No thoughts given to the messed up tax system, Government waste, the national debt, or the fact that the only people who are stopped from carrying guns on campus are the people who care about the rules and that, subsequently, students are less safe, since they are unarmed. It saddens me.