The Polls Awaken

I have hopes for this article to be somewhat lengthy. In case some readers want to not finish everything and take anything out of context here’s the best place to do it: Bernie Sanders is Yoda, and Trump is Anakin/Darth Vader because of the switching sides.

For everyone else reading the entire thing, the attempt of this article is to just make a comparison and encourage thinking. I am in no way attempting to influence voting one direction or the other. With the ongoing 2016 election, and the release of the most recent Star Wars movie, there is plenty of theories and beliefs to get minds going. I want to combine them. But first, a little background on Star Wars. From a basic level, The Force (the thing that makes up all living things), is separated into the Light Side and the Dark Side. Now while many people can assume this is good and evil, throughout the Star Wars movies and books, it becomes slightly more complicated. Similar to Ying and Yang, or Heads and Tails, it is just the two sides. The Google commercial “Awaken the Force Within” describes both sides well. The Light Side is about “compassion” and “self sacrifice” while the Dark Side is about “your inner power”. Good and evil do not necessarily come into the equation with the exception of implications. Both are simply ideals of how to live life and run a system.

In the same way, the American political system is mainly made up by two sides who both believe theirs is a better way of managing. (Here comes the comparison part). The Democratic Party is founded on principles that attempt to benefit all Americans directly, universal healthcare, welfare etc. where as The Republican Party focuses on giving control back to individuals and in some cases looks to make government smaller. Therefore we can make a comparison of Democrats to the Light Side and Republicans to the Dark (once again good or evil is not in play here).

Making a reference to the original trilogies, both sides sought to “balance the Force” whatever that may mean. We need that in our political system, a “Chosen One” to “balance the Force”, who that is and what that means is as big a mystery to me as anyone, but our country was founded under certain premises, and two sides working together towards a common goal. That’s why we have a bipartisan house because even people on the same side disagree on various applications. The question that remains above all this: what will happen at the end of this year? And what is your involvement going to do about it?