Behind the Ballot - 1

So Mom was looking through my Senior GS binder and found the "Behind the Ballot" badge and was like "Hey,  primaries are tomorrow.  Why don't you do this badge?"  It's cool that she said that since she's made it clear that GS is my thing.  It's my job to manage it.  She'll drive me wherever, but I get to work out the schedule, the plan, and which badges I'll earn.  The fact that she's taking interest in my Scouting goals is nice.

So I've basically researched and finished step one, which is to find out more about elections by comparing political platforms for different political parties in history and today.  In short:

-Federalists believed that the government should have lots of power and should be manned by wealthy, educated people.
-Anti-Federalsists believed the people should have more power than the government, and that the government should just be there to kind of help the people along.
Cliff's Notes Edition: Comparison of Federalists and Anti-Federalists

I still don't get all the name changes that took place with the parties, but whatever you call them, these two parties, merged with others, renamed themselves, scrambled their core beliefs, swapped with others, and somehow turned into the Republicans and the Democrats.  Then in 2007, the Green Party and the Libertarian Party emerged as official parties.

And in short, today's political parties are too controversial to talk about on a blog about Girl Scouts.  Seriously, there is no place on the internet where bias is not rampant when explaining political platforms.  There is no short way to explain them myself without exhibiting my own bias.  Sure, I know what I believe and what I wish others believed.  Sure as heck I'll advocate for my beliefs and speak my mind.  But I'm not about to explain the beliefs of others on this blog, for fear of ticking someone off.