An Inauguration

I suppose I should begin with why I have created this blog and maybe a bit about myself.

I created a blog primarily because I have an excess of free time. That probably strikes anyone reading this as highly fortuitous; I myself find it often boring and repetitive. For that reason, I've decided to translate my keen interest in politics, both in my native United States and elsewhere, into a blog. I will probably be focusing primarily on politics in the United States and Canada with frequent cameos by British politics and occasional cameos by other topics and politics in other countries.

I am a college student, a freshman at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. By itself, that probably makes you immediately label me as a liberal; I am, though not always in the traditional American sense. I consider myself strongly socially liberal on almost every issue, but not so much economically leftist. This is an important distinction that i will be drawing when discussing politics on this blog. There is left-right politics, and there is liberal-conservative politics, and they are distinct. While I wholeheartedly endorse liberalism, I only occasionally endorse leftism.

As for world parties, I am a supporter of the United States Democratic Party, the Canadian Green Party, the British Liberal Democrats, the Australian Greens, the French UDF and the Japanese Democrats. I don't know quite enough about the politics of other countries to form definitive opinions of their political parties, and I generally try to withhold judgment until I can make a clear decision. That should get you through what my political biases are liable to be.

For now, I think I'm finished. Not to worry, my faithful and non-existent readers, the next post will contain political substance.