This blog has taken a hit as it isn't really the first place I go to spew out my opinion on things anymore. But it still exists, it still will occasionally get some original content.
I've never been able to really articulate my political stance in the past. But I have one. I hate politics. People tell me I am just being an idealist or I need to do something else in order to even have the opinions that I have. But I fucking don't. Why the fuck can't I hate the fucking political system and not be actively trying to change it at the same time? Why is it that when someone votes for someone because they are slightly better than someone else and I choose to not vote for either of them I am the fucking bad guy? It's fucking mind boggling! And I realize I've overused the word "fucking" but I fucking want to, so deal with it.
Our system is shit. And anyone that thinks its good is a fucking moron. It doesn't work. It ends up with bickering and crappy compromises. It ends up with Republicans and Democrats basically having to run as moderates forever. I know what I want the government to be doing, but that is irrelevant to this conversation. What I know is that what it is doing isn't what anyone really wants. We are the frogs that have been in the pot. The water keeps getting hotter and we don't notice anymore. The system is broken. Buying into the crappy logic that if we don't indulge the system we will be fucked further is horrible logic. I'm choosing passive resistance. I'm choosing to say that I refuse to participate until it gets fixed. And yet the people I know that are most political "aware" seem to think I am some sort of idiot that doesn't know his ass from his hairnet. I'm not the smartest guy, but I am really, really good at putting shit together. I can see what is happening, and I can see everyone getting sucked into a national dialog when what we need is a conversation. A dialog is between two sides, but there are hundreds of sides to America. Why are we limiting ourselves to two sides?
The liberals are the bad guys, or the conservatives are the bad guys. There is no middle ground. News flash, there is actually some gray area in life and in politics. Why the fuck do smart people think that if they don't vote for the candidate they endorse the system will collapse on itself? I have no fucking idea, other than that they have bought into the idea that there are always only two choices. There are a million choices. Your choosing to follow. It's time to trail blaze.
I'm not an idiot, and I'm not hopelessly uniformed, and I'm not crazy. The system is broken. I'm choosing not to feed it anymore. And I'm not starting a campaign or backing a politician. I'm talking. I'm complaining, I'm raising my voice. And that may not be much, but its something. Maybe I'll always be the crazy voice on the fringe but I know I'm right. And that is all that really matters. I'm standing up for myself and my beliefs. And there are few things I fight for these days, but I fight for what I believe in. So fucking bring it on. Just be ready to get yelled at.
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The thing that I was trying to say before about the whole "lessor of two evils" thing was that I think what elections tend to do is cause people to judge politicians by campaigns rather than their records. I'll use the John Kerry vs George Bush as an example.
Kerry ran a terrible campaign, and many liberals ended up saying something to the effect of "well I'm no fan of Kerry, but he's better than Bush. I did this myself, and probably even argued that we should vote for Kerry as "the lessor of two evils."
To be honest though, I never really did any research on my own of what kind of record Kerry had outside of what his campaign was running and probably some magazine articles. Having paid more attention to politics since then and actually looking at his record now, he actually very consistently supports legislation I like and opposes legislation I don't. It turns out, that rather than being "the lessor of two evils," he is actually someone that I agree with like 95% of the time.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the way elections are conducted in the country is fucked up and it will tend to sour us on almost any candidate that gains enough support to get pulled into the shitstorm. So I think it's really best to ignore the campaigns and get our information from other sources (like votesmart.org or factcheck.org).
I don't think you're an idiot and that's not what I was trying to convey. I think this is something that we all tend to do.
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