Outside of the $10b cost per month of the Iraq war, I really don’t care about it. I know it is going on, I know soldiers are dying, but other than that I really don’t care.

I don’t care because No Ears Bush doesn’t listen to anybody about how the American public disagrees with the war. He continues the “Continue the Course” mantra as if no one has ever said anything disagreeable to the war. So if my yelling and screaming against the war isn’t going to do any good, I am going to ignore it.

The only thing we can do is not volunteer for the army. If there are not enough members of the armed forces that will force the president to request a draft. Requesting a draft for the Iraq war will be political suicide and the country would riot. So if we can’t raise an army the government will be forced to start pulling out of the policeman roll and then maybe we will actually be able to start paying off our debt.

So my political protest of the war is don’t join the army, don’t care that soldiers are dying, and in general ignore every aspect of the war except the $10b a month price tag. Because if our soldiers did not support the war, they would not join the army.

When I look at the political priorities Americans hold I see two distinct sets. You have the internet savvy young generation priorities and then you have everyone else. In my view here are the sets of priorities for each group:

Net Savvy

1. Privacy
2. National Debt
3. Bush’s War Crimes

Everyone Else

1. Economy
2. Gas Prices
3. Iraq

Interestingly you will even see some people list the “Net Savvy” priorities when they are chatting online, but if you talk to them in person they will list the “Everyone Else” priorities. Why is there this difference in priorities and why do people say different things depending on their surroundings?

Part of the reason people use 2 faces when talking about priorities is peer pressure. But I think another part of it is that in an indirect way all of the “Net Savvy” priorities support the “Everyone Else” priorities.

Decreasing the National Debt should increase the value of the dollar which should also improve the economy. Bush’s war crimes and the Iraq war is partially being blamed for high gas prices. Is this the true reason? Not entirely, but the National Debt and the Iraq war have certainly contributed. The privacy priority pertains to Iraq/Terrorism where the government is trying to strip all of our privacy under the name of terrorism. I believe the younger generation has seen through this facade and realized that reducing all risk of a terrorist attack is not worth giving up our privacy.

This is causing an interesting challenge for the presidential candidates having to try to appeal to both sides of the argument. However, in doing this they will eventually end up alienating one group of voters. As much as I wish differently, I believe that one group will be the “net savvy” block of Americans.