I'm not American by any stretch of imagination, I'm not even from this continent. But I've been following the US presidential elections with some degree of curiosity, and I'm kind of flabbergasted by some aspects of it. Some of the things to come to mind is what seems to be 'inherited political loyalty', where people will vote for, and whole-heartedly support a political party for no other reason than that they and their family always did. There seems to be no brain activity involved in this. They don't seem to care what the party stands for, they probably don't even know what the party stands for. But my pappy always voted for 'em, so I'm gonna vote for 'em too.
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WHY? Why in the name of Zeus's hamster would you do something that stupid? If you wanna vote for a certain political party, go right ahead, but for the love of God, at least find out what the party is all about and see if it makes any sense at all first! Don't throw your chance away to actually make a difference and make this planet a nicer place to live! You could be voting for a complete idiot who will make you regret every second of the next couple of decades! Think about what you are doing!
Another thing that stands out like an elephant in a Cessna is the Republican pick for vice president. There's been a lot of debating about whether Palin actually has any more or less experience with governing things than Obama. Among all the information and counterinformation and misinformation and stuff, I have no clue who to believe, and frankly, I don't really care that much. But after seeing the interviews done with Palin, I just can't help to think that no matter how flawed or inexperienced or [insert other negative assessment here] Obama is, please, please, please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't let this person become the vice president of the United States of America. Have you seen the interview she did for CNN with Katie Couric? Seriously, this person honestly makes no sense at all. "Oh, but it's all angled to make her look bad because CNN is a liberal dog of the democratic party..." No, seriously. This isn't something CNN angled in any way at all, this is directly out of Palin's mouth, and she just doesn't make any sense. She's completely incoherent, to the point where I was just sitting there with my mouth open staring at the screen and wondering how come the world all of a sudden went completely insane and I didn't notice? What was McCain thinking? Go watch it yourself, it's all over the youtube. Just look up Palin and CNN or Couric or something. It's astounding.
I know! My current most commonly used expression is "Sarah Palin....what the fuck?!". She's completely insane. She thinks she's qualified to dictate foreign policy because she can see Russia from her house. GAH!
ReplyDeleteRight now Obama's leading in all the polls so, yaye! but if McCain/Palin actually win the thing, I'm going to put my affairs in order and then go catch the first flight I can find to Amsterdam. Homeless in Holland has to beat living in a universe where Sarah Palin is VP. *shudder* (If I wait to graduate, it'll be May, and I hear the tulips are lovely...)
The one silver lining to Governor Palin's lunacy is that it sets a nice precedent for future female politicians of high rank. The conservative nutjobs who would otherwise be lambasting her with sexist bullshit (but who's taking care of her CHILDREN???? She's neglecting her CHILDREN!!!!!) have to keep their traps shut because she's more conservative and nuttier than they could ever have dreamed for a person to be a VP nominee.
This means that in the future, if a woman runs for high office (and hopefully is a little less fucking nuts than Gov Palin), people won't be able to make the sexist remarks with as much validity, because the precedent was set by this election that it's not a big deal.
Which, I'm sure, has the sexist evil Rush Limbaughs of the world steaming with rage.
Decent consolation prize, but much better for everyone if Obama/Biden wins the thing. Here's hopin!