Yeah, that's me. Because I am going to bitch about the ignorance of the American public and their choice of President. I say "their" and "hypocrite" because, you guessed it, I didn't vote. I am registered in Oklahoma (no time to get registered here before the election) and completely forgot I could get an absentee ballot for OK right up until sometime last week. I totally dropped the ball, but somehow I'm fairly confident with the fact that my one lousy vote would not have tipped the scales in Bible-thumping-let's-kill-everyone-different-from-us-and-if-we-can't-kill-them-we-can-at-least-take-over-their-lives-militia-style Oklahoma.
*sigh*
So we will continue to live the lie of the Iraqi war--no, wait, the war is officially over (although more servicemen have died since the end of the war than during the whole of the actual war)...so we'll just continue to pay billions of dollars into an effort to rebuild a country that was mostly just fine until we stuck our noses into it. Yeah, Saddam was an asshole. So is Bush, by my standards. Good thing the USA is the only country with enough arrogance to insist that everyone does things our way, or we might be faced with Canada or France barging in to oust him!! But I digress.
We will continue to live in a so-called "Advanced" society where discrimination over folks who love differently than a select few in power is not only okay, but promoted. We will most likely see the appointment of one, possibly two or more Supreme Court Justices that subscribe to the same belief system as Dubya. Scary times, scary times.
I need to do some more research, I suppose, but all in all, I'm pretty disappointed. But hey, we got a new washing machine (after a month and a half without), so I shouldn't complain. I should shut up and go launder.
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It seems that the single most awful thing is the knowledge that one's vote doesn't count: that if you are not with the majority, you might as well not exist. It's an all-or-nothing system, and it seems to be reflected in the so-called 'mandate' to carry on regardless of 60 million objections. THis is the starting point of unilateralism.
I am puzzling over this one. It should matter that there's a sizable minority with a difference of opinion. I would prefer to see a system that requires some sort of compromise, so that everyone gets at least some satisfaction, and so that no one group can smugly tell eveyone else that they are irrelevant.
I would have liked to see Coorado's elctoral vote amendment pass. But it didn't. So there's a task for the next four years. Support porportional representation in some form.
As for being a hypocrite, don't worry about it. There are far more hypocritical things going on, and far greater numbers of people unfazed by the accusation. I never let anyone use logic in an attempt to stop me from complaining.
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