Since my opinion matters the least . . .

I will go on and say it anyway.

There's a bumper sticker that says, "God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat."

For a long time I considered myself a democrat, in line with the rest of my demographic: hispanic immigrant student. However, as a Christian, I found I hold many of the same views a republican does. Even more eye-opening still was the fact that socialism appealed to me a lot, so much so that I have told some people that I am, in fact a socialist.

Socialist does not mean "Communist," communism being one of the twigs in the branch of Socialism in the tree of ideologies. But being the editor of a newspaper has finally given me what I am.

I am a radical progressive lover.

Radical, in the sense that I go back to the root for the foundation. (Radical means root, that's why the symbol for "square root" in math is called a radical. But you already knew that, because only my dad reads these . . .) hence my similar views to republicans.

Progressive in that I believe that new solutions should be found to problems that simply require new solutions. Putting fires out with buckets of water provided by a line of concerned citizens just doesn't cut it anymore. These would be my democratic leanings.

Lover in that I believe that everyone deserves the same chances, not by entitlement but because, as humans, we all have inherent needs that need to be met. These are my Socialist leanings.

When this political issue of the newspaper was finally printed and I distributed it, one of my writers (Obama supporter) asked me what party I liked best, and I said, "I dislike both parties. I believe in 'sell everything, give it to the poor.' Some might say that's Socialism, but I don't mind."

The problem with the parties is that all of them, from the far-right Tea Party to the far-left Communists, all work nicely on paper.

However, Jesus' view is the only one that gives back.

There is a huge argument about how big the government should be; in Jesus' method, everyone is the same.

Not Socialism, because there wealth is redistributed (give to the poor) but everything else is confiscated by the government (not exactly selling everything, the government keeps the spoils.) However, in Jesus method, it is the rulers who sell everything--the re-distribution starts at the top.

If all the poor have all the rich people's riches, then we see it as the exact opposite from where we started. All of a sudden, the now rich are now to give all to the poor. This creates an equality based on "let me help you meet your needs" instead of "I'll keep everything, everyone survive on the necessary."

There is also no need for the Democratic/Republican capitalism, the system in which only the strong will survive.

The only way to live is to love one another, like Jesus did with us. He is our King, yet He wants to share with us the experience of eternity. He is the ruler, yet He gave it all so that we may have it (and we give it to those who don't have it, and so on).

In short, I don't hate politics, I despise selfish people.