Political LULZ

I has them.

In fact, that’s all I even need to say.  Everyone and their evangelical minister has something to say about the election, so I feel like it’s officially become redundant to say anything.  Obviously, I’m still going to, though I’ll try not to preach…I’ll just leave that to FOX news and their remarkably two-faced journalism style (i.e. Palin’s “struggle” with the sexist liberal media vs. Hilary’s “whining”).  I know you’ve heard it all before.

Personally, I’ve made my decision.  Though I’ve always considered partisan politics to be two sides of the same oppressive coin being pandered to the people in order to create for them a false sense of control, I usually try to weigh issues and pick the lesser of the two evils.  Do I honestly believe my vote makes a difference?  It’s a layered answer.  I don’t believe it does a damn thing in our nations best interest, since most of us are completely ignorant to the lengths our government can and has gone through to control things much less important than the U.S. Presidency.  If the boys really had their heart set on a candidate they feel to be the most obedient scapegoat while they do their real damage behind the scenes, it wouldn’t take much more than another “ballot mishap” to make it happen.  I find the whole process to be not much more than smoke and mirrors and it’s difficult for me to take any campaign promise with a grain of salt.  Yes, even from His Holiness, Barack Obama.

However, I do understand the difference between 1) being bitter and miserable in the midst of a police state no different than today, and 2) being bitter and miserable in prison after Congress does away with net neutrality, Homeland Security searches my computer and arrests me for downloading illegal Un-American media and literature, as well as two seasons of The Office.  It sounds far-fetched until someone reminds you that McCain doesn’t use the internet and Stalin Palin might very well be the chief influence about laws regarding things like free speech and free press.  As described by the Washington Post, this is a woman who…

…opposes programs that teach girls how not to get pregnant, lobbies against their right to decide whether to have a child, then kills social programs that exist to cushion the impact of those policies. She then has the gall to trot out her own pregnant daughter as a symbol for “family values.”

Oh yeah, such a warm and fuzzy history with womens’ personal freedoms, she’s bound to be a triumphant advocate for free speech.  Oh, nevermind, according to this Time Magazine article, she’s prone to desire book banning:

[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.

This leads me to imagine frightening scenarios where checking off the “Atheist” box on some idle meme means being carried off to some Woodstock-like Christian bonfire and set on fire while thousands of Evangelicals look on in glee.   Ok, I’m going with extremes for humor’s sake, but you know what I mean.  This is why I vote.  In blind hope that it’ll make a difference…for the times where the lesser of two evils means nothing beneficially changing as opposed to waking up in 1984.

Sigh.

I dunno, guys.  I’m at a crossroad.  When I was younger and more idealistic I fully believed in the power of the people.  The notion that the lower/middle class could come together and rise up against the top 2%, unify to make a change in our own country, take power from the few who have it and seek to selfishly profit at the expense of the laborers and put it into the hands of the people.  I believed and still believe in the power of solidarity.

But this election…makes me sad.  In the sense that people don’t seem to care what the government does with our personal freedoms or our relations with the hundreds of other countries we share the planet with, but rather God (since he’s the only god that matters, obviously), who some politician sucked/fucked, flag pins and black and white social issues.  Grey areas are naturally for commies and liberals.

I just wish the people who do care about the real world in 2008 (since most people in power are still living in the 60’s) would put aside petty differences that separate them and realize they could do much more for their cause by ensuring we live in a country where these decisions are ours to make.  As long as everyone refuses to look outside their own little box (*coughcoughreligioncoughcough*) and inform themselves one in awhile, we’re every bit the idiot hick country the rest of the world thinks we are.  And I remain cynical as to whether such a populace is worth the effort.

Till then, the only ideal I can agree with and wholeheartedly push is this.

Solidarity

So it got a bit preachy.

Sue me, its the motherfuckin election.