Sometimes a good rant is simply what the doctor ordered. ... I am not just mad about the likely results tonight. Im mad that this election was drowned out by the dumbest imaginable bullshit. Im mad that the Republicans were able to hide their record of unprecedented obstruction and lunacy behind wall-to-wall coverage of some woman going for a bike ride with her boyfriend in Maine. Im angry that people are so disengaged and uninformed, but I dont blame them. At least, they are not primarily responsible because they are victims of terrible leadership. The Democrats are too passive. The Republicans never stop lying. The media doesnt do substance. The Courts give all the power to the demagogues and their funders. The legislatures gerrymand the districts into complete uncompetitiveness. Even when we elect someone on a platform we like, the system doesnt allow them to try out their ideas, and then we blame them for ineffectiveness. So, now we have a stupid, uninformed, malleable, scared populace that sees no hope and either disengages or bases their decisions on the most idiotic bullshit. Two countries are going to the polls today, and one of those countries is overwhelmingly white and pissed off about the very existence of the other country. The Republicans continue to drive this wedge between us and were going to see the results in how people vote in urban and rural Wisconsin or Georgia or Massachusetts. One party has its problems, but the other is actively making us worse people who live in a worse country every single hour of every single day. And they are going to be rewarded for it. And the press is going to treat this as the reward for savvy. Its not savvy. Its just brokenness. Its a result of so many failures that I cannot even list them all. We could have had hope. Our elites didnt want hope.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:02:35 +0000
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