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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-08-30 10:29 pm
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-08-30 10:29 pm
Honestly? Election year is just making me want to get the heck out of dodge
I want to live under a rock, or on Mars, or something, until the goddamn meaningless two-party circus is quiet.
I don't really feel like the presidency matters; the people under the president matter. And a shocking number of people in this country are totally okay with bullshit policies either because they don't know better, or they're perfectly morally comfortable with fucking over everybody else in the hopes that they will benefit.
Danny and I had a conversation the other day about how it makes me a little uncomfortable that my mom has some learned racism against Asian cultures in general. It's mostly because of the era she grew up in, and her parents being the way they are, too, but Danny pointed out, "Well, and she was exposed to those decades of fear-mongering about how Japan was going to take over."
"Hah," I said. "That's definitely true."
"Now it's fear-mongering about China instead."
"It's always something."
"It's funny because we seem to get so damned nervous about the idea of somebody else 'catching up' to us. All the other powers in the world are pretty similar to each other, in terms of strength. They have to actually be polite with each other to be able to co-exist, they have manners." We started climbing the stairs.
I said, "Well, that's what's really wrong with us, as a country, in terms of attitude. You have this bullshit 'American' ideal of being better than everybody else, and we're terrified- fucking terrified that that won't be true anymore, and then we'll have to own up to the fact that we've been bullying everyone else for the last twenty years, longer. And they're not going to fucking like us any better with us acting like we do."
Anyway- I'm super against Romney because I'm super against the Mormon religion and people who support it. I seriously don't think I need to explain why, so I'm not going to bother. (I'm actually really sick of having to explain why I'm against organizations that are explicitly seeking the destruction and rescinding of my and other women's rights. I do not need a reason beyond that. That is a good reason.)
I don't think Obama's all that, sure, but I also think the people working under him have done the best they can do with a really shitty situation. I definitely don't think Romney would be better. I don't think having a system weeded down to two parties is fair to the nation, nor logical for us as a people. There's no representation for like 85% of the populace. Mexico had sixteen parties in their latest election, last I checked! SIXTEEN. That's actually having choices! We used to have all sorts of parties, and they weren't just meaningless showmanship attached to arbitrarily chosen words. What happened to that?
I don't hear anybody in US politics offering a good solution about how to fix our problems. I just hear the guys in office right now, doing their damnedest to keep things running, and the guys who want to be in office, screaming like children about how the guys in office are fucking it all up.
Nobody in their right mind would actually want to be the president of this country as it is right now.
I shall now sulk disappointedly about the RNC and Clint Eastwood's involvement. Sulk.
Gene Wolfe, I hope you do not weigh in on this election, because I would doubtless be sad about it either way.
I don't really feel like the presidency matters; the people under the president matter. And a shocking number of people in this country are totally okay with bullshit policies either because they don't know better, or they're perfectly morally comfortable with fucking over everybody else in the hopes that they will benefit.
Danny and I had a conversation the other day about how it makes me a little uncomfortable that my mom has some learned racism against Asian cultures in general. It's mostly because of the era she grew up in, and her parents being the way they are, too, but Danny pointed out, "Well, and she was exposed to those decades of fear-mongering about how Japan was going to take over."
"Hah," I said. "That's definitely true."
"Now it's fear-mongering about China instead."
"It's always something."
"It's funny because we seem to get so damned nervous about the idea of somebody else 'catching up' to us. All the other powers in the world are pretty similar to each other, in terms of strength. They have to actually be polite with each other to be able to co-exist, they have manners." We started climbing the stairs.
I said, "Well, that's what's really wrong with us, as a country, in terms of attitude. You have this bullshit 'American' ideal of being better than everybody else, and we're terrified- fucking terrified that that won't be true anymore, and then we'll have to own up to the fact that we've been bullying everyone else for the last twenty years, longer. And they're not going to fucking like us any better with us acting like we do."
Anyway- I'm super against Romney because I'm super against the Mormon religion and people who support it. I seriously don't think I need to explain why, so I'm not going to bother. (I'm actually really sick of having to explain why I'm against organizations that are explicitly seeking the destruction and rescinding of my and other women's rights. I do not need a reason beyond that. That is a good reason.)
I don't think Obama's all that, sure, but I also think the people working under him have done the best they can do with a really shitty situation. I definitely don't think Romney would be better. I don't think having a system weeded down to two parties is fair to the nation, nor logical for us as a people. There's no representation for like 85% of the populace. Mexico had sixteen parties in their latest election, last I checked! SIXTEEN. That's actually having choices! We used to have all sorts of parties, and they weren't just meaningless showmanship attached to arbitrarily chosen words. What happened to that?
I don't hear anybody in US politics offering a good solution about how to fix our problems. I just hear the guys in office right now, doing their damnedest to keep things running, and the guys who want to be in office, screaming like children about how the guys in office are fucking it all up.
Nobody in their right mind would actually want to be the president of this country as it is right now.
I shall now sulk disappointedly about the RNC and Clint Eastwood's involvement. Sulk.
Gene Wolfe, I hope you do not weigh in on this election, because I would doubtless be sad about it either way.