Who I am and what this blog is all about…

I’m a 28 year old politicophile (I like to make everything sound Greek), all around political/news junkie, blogger, first-generation Greek and (hope to one day be a recovered) lawyer. When I’m not practicing law, I spend my time writing for the Sam Adams Alliance, the Lucy Burns Institute and starting soon, the American Issues Project’s blog which I’m very excited to join.

I’m a researcher and perfectionist by nature, and I’ve spent the last couple years shocked at how much bad information is out there and how misinformed people are. When I worked on my first political campaign, our campaign manager sat us down at a strategy session to drive it into our heads that we (our team) were not normal…because as you might imagine, people who VOLUNTEER to work night and day on campaigns are extreeeemly passionate about politics. He went on to say that most people watch a few minutes of their local news a day and get all the political information they need there to form their political opinions. That.is.sad. No doubt about it. Whose fault is it that people are not informed? That’s a whole other story…the days of the citizen-politician are looooong gone. Everyone’s at fault. People are at fault for not educating themselves. But I believe the story is deeper than that. People are FRUSTRATED by their politicians. They feel disconnected. They are jaded by corruption which we now assume just comes along with the territory. And the politicians, well, it’s not necessarily in their interest to have an informed constituency, is it?

These are the kinds of question I hope to explore on this blog along with providing commentary on the big news of the day. All (civil and respectful) comments are welcome.