Hilariously, the predicted outcome of this month’s election has yielded ever more predictable outcomes. Barack Obama, who has never been remotely interested in the progressive agenda – yet curiously courts a large portion of the progressive vote (or used to) – now has the perfect cover story for the demise of any cosmetic hope and or change he might have been politically forced to introduce. The Republicans, destroyers of all that is good and holy, have achieved a majority status in our sacred House of Representatives. How then, are any of the things that our beloved leader promised us (and proceded to sit on his ass and ignore for two years) supposed to pass into law?
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I love elections. For some reason, since I was a child, they have always fascinated me. Not because I have some vested interest in what the results are or because I have a stake in candidate X or Y. I’m not entirely sure why but because of this, I stayed up late watching the results of the election on television. Though I was completely sober, the layers of dishonesty displayed by pundits, candidates, and analysts were so thick that I felt drunk. Meaningless phrases like “discretionary spending”, “big government”, “1994″, “loud and clear message”, “small business”, and “runaway spending” were thrown around so often that I had trouble following what was even being said. What it did clarify was how Americans could time and again return these thieves to power: the dishonesty is so pervasive that it creates an imaginary world with problems that don’t exist and solutions that could never work. Like Greek sirens, listening to these people will cause you to fall into this imaginary world and only leads to ruin for us all.
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Tomorrow will be the infamous “referendum” on the Democratic Party. Despite the past four years providing the Democratic Party with majorities unseen in decades and demands from eager voters who are desperate for change, they have failed every opportunity given them. Are we still surprised after playing this game for generations? It seems we are and the Democrats are happy for this. This is a defeat they desperately want and need.
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Yesterday morning, while getting ready for work, my Significant Other turned on MSNBC for some background noise to help bring our minds out of the deep sleep of the previous night. Of course it was on Morning Joe, probably one of the most useless “news” programs I’ve ever watched. The topic at hand was the Delaware debate with Chris Coons and Christine O’Donnell. Personally, I hate what modern debates have evolved into. The real-time opinion graphs some networks display at the bottom of the screen is probably some of the most degrading shit I’ve ever seen. The policies aren’t even what’s important anymore but rather who voters are tricked into thinking is more “like them” or who they “want to have a beer with.” But what’s worse is just how dead modern journalism, especially on cable news, really is.
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Elections. Oh Elections. We know because of the media’s dialog this year that the public, like the dependable pendulum it is, is going to return Republicans to power this year and this is largely due to Democrats doing nothing but screwing us since ’06 (and really, since forever). Stepping aside the lengthy digression of why we seem only willing to continue returning those who have only ever hurt us to power; this seems to be a retaliation for the Democrats’ grandiose plans that we never got and were either scrapped, watered-down, or reversed entirely. Personally, I think it would be hilarious to see the Democrats keep their position of power, thus removing the inevitable excuse of “oh, if only the Democrats were in the majority, [bullshit] would be so much better!”, and forcing them to spend yet another several years showing us how eager they are to do nothing.
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Remember when Joe Sestak decided that Democrats needed more choice than reelecting newly Democratic Arlen Specter and decided to primary him? Well now that his position as the party’s candidate is secured, Sestak wants to make sure the choice are limited once again. You see, choice was only good as long as it provided him with another rung on his climb to power.
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It’s been a little longer than my usual writing interval and I’m feeling comfortable blaming it on work being very busy and the summer heat making me feel lazy. Lately, everything I see in the news lately is about this bullshit mosque controversy and the midterm elections. I guess the campaign to keep us in line for the coming election is in full force.
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The world is a scary place and I make no mistake about that. We’re told this all the time by our media, politicians, loved ones, and culture. In politics, the fear generated by world events is used to the benefit of those with or seeking power. If a threat is not actually a threat, it is often exaggerated and made into something much more than what one should actually expect. With elections coming shortly the fear-mongering once again is ratcheted up in order to make those of us who would make a stand and protest the status quo fall back into line and return the rich and powerful back to their rightful place of making our decisions for us.
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This being an election year, we are again subjected to pre-approved candidates that do not represent solutions but wish to distract us with catchy slogans and scare us into voting for them. Bush voters regularly stated the ability for Bush to provide security from terrorism as the reason they chose to vote for him (which is needless to say, hilarious), and voters for Obama could be relied upon to unironically state the need for “hope” and “change” as legit reasons for their own choices. The former being scared into voting for a madman, the later being distracted into voting for the same.
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