A few days ago, I made this post -
http://www.dailykos.com/... - and received several interesting replies. I think it's a good time to go into more detail and also respond to some of the points made by the commenters.
Basically, my original question involved what I can do to get more involved in fighting the good fight.
To the members who said "Stay in Japan" - well, I'd love to, but I go to Rutgers University and will have to finish my J.D. there. I think I should have made it clearer that I've only been here in Japan since January - and I've been up on all the news since then. I keep in touch with my congressman (who is actually a family acquaintance) as well as friends who are Democratic operatives in DC and Philly.
But I suppose the real question was "Why did I go to law school in the first place?" And I'm not sure about that anymore. When I graduated college, Bush's War had just started, and my roommate and I spent many hours arguing over the righteousness of it (he was and still is a very bizarre conservative, with some views to the left of me and others in line with religious conservatives). But I digress. When I graduated, I finished with a business degree and wanted to work in PR/marketing. Instead, I found that I was having trouble finding a job and decided that I would go to law school - I had wanted to go, but not that soon.
I actually enjoy law school. I like learning, and I love the nature of laws. And that's part of why I'm so furious at the current government. They don't respect the law, they piss on it. And all the while the mass media has been shaking it off after they finish their business. Laws are a social contract, and we've been faces with a group of barbarians who can't read or follow instructions.
To respond to Free Spirit, I don't think that's true. I was just as busy, if not more so, my second year as I was my first. You can be full of free time if you want to, I suppose, but shouldn't everyone seek to experience something to the maximum? Those students who float through law school, running home as soon as the last class ends without a care in order to watch TV or sleep are not getting what they should out of the experience.
Part of the reason I wanted to go to law school was because I wanted to be part of the solution. I hate to think that I'm in the majority - I know many people who agree with me, that they're going so that they can help fix things. And I also know many who are in it for the money. But I have a deep desire to set our country back on the correct road, rather than the smoking wreck it's been lately. We need a new constitutional concept at this point - one that would protect The People from a Government that no longer Represents them.
I think i've been confusing enough now. Thank you, and good night.
But what I'm going to do when I get home is throw every spare moment into getting these damn scumbags out of their comfy chairs and out of our houses of power. We need a fresh start - the walls must come down.