Election Day!
Well, we've come to that magical time of year when about a quarter of the American population turns out at the polls to elect a few hudred assholes to national seats of power and a few thousand more to fiefdoms at the state, city and county level. I will be spending this one as I have spent all of them since my 12th birthday, draped in an American flag with nothing on underneath and drunkenly watching the election results roll in. I'm not sure why my parents insisted I get drunk back in '87, maybe because of Iran-Contra or Bork's beatdown, but I'm not one to fuck with a good tradition.
I have voted one time in my life, and I didn't care for it. For everyone who thinks it is our civic responsibility to vote in all of these farces, just remember that at best your vote amounts to one one thousandth of someone's election chances. At worst, your state-wide races in populous states, you factor in at a one in eight million clip, or worse in the most populous. What does that mean? Only that your vote is fairly inconsequential. Granted, if everyone thought and acted as I do no one would receive a vote and democracy would die pretty quickly, but there are always earnest people who actually believe that some nimrod actually believes in their particular cause(s) or that the world would be a better place if only Amendment 2 was passed or rejected. I just don't think it matters all that much. They'll do fairly similar things regardless of who wins. Sure, I have my preferences, but they mostly involve leaving me alone, not a popular course of action in politics. Everyone wants to fuck with things, change them, ban them, restrict them, etc. I don't want to in most cases and neither of the two parties in the system agree with me. So, basically, spare me the sanctimony.
Oh, if you're stupid, don't vote. I don't care who you would vote for or against. DON'T VOTE! You'll just fuck everything up with your idiotic reasoning. You're the problem. You're the people politicians buy so easily with empty promises and grand rhetoric. Outside of a pogrom, your inaction is the only solution. Think about the children. Think about the time you could spend watching Oprah. Whatever it takes to dissuade you from voting, think about it.
I do still follow things, despite my general apathy, so I'll make the not so bold prediction that at the end of the counts and recounts and court cases the Dems will control the houst by a slim margin and the Reps will hold the Senate by an even slimmer margin.
I have voted one time in my life, and I didn't care for it. For everyone who thinks it is our civic responsibility to vote in all of these farces, just remember that at best your vote amounts to one one thousandth of someone's election chances. At worst, your state-wide races in populous states, you factor in at a one in eight million clip, or worse in the most populous. What does that mean? Only that your vote is fairly inconsequential. Granted, if everyone thought and acted as I do no one would receive a vote and democracy would die pretty quickly, but there are always earnest people who actually believe that some nimrod actually believes in their particular cause(s) or that the world would be a better place if only Amendment 2 was passed or rejected. I just don't think it matters all that much. They'll do fairly similar things regardless of who wins. Sure, I have my preferences, but they mostly involve leaving me alone, not a popular course of action in politics. Everyone wants to fuck with things, change them, ban them, restrict them, etc. I don't want to in most cases and neither of the two parties in the system agree with me. So, basically, spare me the sanctimony.
Oh, if you're stupid, don't vote. I don't care who you would vote for or against. DON'T VOTE! You'll just fuck everything up with your idiotic reasoning. You're the problem. You're the people politicians buy so easily with empty promises and grand rhetoric. Outside of a pogrom, your inaction is the only solution. Think about the children. Think about the time you could spend watching Oprah. Whatever it takes to dissuade you from voting, think about it.
I do still follow things, despite my general apathy, so I'll make the not so bold prediction that at the end of the counts and recounts and court cases the Dems will control the houst by a slim margin and the Reps will hold the Senate by an even slimmer margin.
posted by Biggus Rickus | 3:29 PM
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