Why You Should Support Mike Gravel For President

In case you do not know, and with the way the media follows politics that is likely, former Alaska senator Mike Gravel (D) is running for president. Below I shall give you 10 reasons why you should support Mike Gravel for president.

#1 He's honest. And I'm not talking about your usual political variety of honesty. He's *really* honest. He doesn't give run around answers. Unlike most politicians he doesn't check a poll to see what his answer should be.

#2 He's been against the war in Iraq since the beginning. Not only has he been against the war since before it began but he saw through George W Bush's lies right from the get go. Why should we be supporting Hillary Clinton or John Edwards (both voted for the War in 2002) if they couldn't see through Bush's lies? Or more likely they saw through the lies and voted for the war anyways for political reasons. Do you really want someone who will vote for a war that is obviously wrong just because it's popular at the time to be your next president?

Although the war was sold to the American public (through lies) and was popular at the start there were many Americans who did not buy the lies. As Gravel says: 50 million Americans knew the Iraqi war was wrong from the get go (And I very proudly include myself in that group) why should anyone whose judgment is worse than 50 million Americans be even considered to be the next president of the United States?

He has a plan to get out of Iraq immediately.

#3 He's for the decriminalization of drugs. The "war on drugs" has done nothing but create crime where there otherwise wouldn't be any and made it harder for addicts to receive the help that they need.

Prohibition (alcohol) didn't work in the 20s and the prohibition of marijuana doesn't work now. Prohibition only made crime climb and made people disrespect the law because the law was unreasonable. The same thing is true now. Any time a government unnecessarily restricts personal freedoms that government will lose the respect of it's people. It's ridiculous for a government in a supposed free society to be able to tell it's people what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.

Certainly I'm not saying that addiction to drugs like heroin is a good thing. But Gravel says it succinctly: "Addiction is a public health problem, not a criminal problem." If you regulate drugs like heroin then the people who are addicted to them could receive help without being treated like criminals. It's truly disgusting (and hypocritical) the way our government treats people who use drugs.

The legalization and regulation of drugs would help the country on multiple levels. First of all it would reduce crime greatly. Secondly it would make it easier for addicts of hard drugs like heroin to receive help. Thirdly it would save the government millions of dollars currently wasted on "war on drugs" to be used for health care, education, and for fighting real crime.

#4 He wants to revamp the tax system. Gravel says we have a corrupt tax system with so many loopholes that it allows most rich people to pay a much lower rate of taxes than the middle class. Gravel wants to get rid of the income tax and replace it with a national sales tax. The income tax has been in place since 1913 and if you do some research on the income tax you will see that it is has been corrupt from the start.

#5 He supports universal health care. America is far behind the curve when it comes to health care. There are millions of Americans who do not have any health care.

#6 He wants to act on global warming. A big change from our current president who doesn't seem to believe in science.

#7 He supports the national initiative. Read more about the national initiative.

#8 Opposes military action against Iran. If you listen to the rhetoric on Iran (especially from Republicans) you'll hear something that sounds very similar to the build up to the Iraq war in 2002. We cannot make this mistake again.

#9 Supports the rights of homosexuals. Gravel supports same-sex marriage and opposes the Defense of Marriage Act. In other words Gravel is firmly in the 21st century. You must understand by now that conservatives are always wrong. Always. It's in their very nature to want to hold onto things how they've always been. Imagine where we'd be without progressive ideas? In the future the discrimination against gays and lesbians will be looked at similarly to how we look back at discrimination against blacks in the past now. It's just wrong. It's as simple as that.

#10 He makes the coolest YouTube videos.



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No more politics as usual. It's time for a real change. It's time to finally move into the 21st century.