January 20, 2008
I lied to a preacher yesterday at a memorial service in Crenshaw. He pointed to me and asked if I believed in God.
I just did a nervous half-nod. I didn't want to make waves.
Meanwhile, I'm finding politics during primaries season more and more stultifying. I just get sick of people howling about how their guy/gal is better and the other one's guy/gal eats poop and smacked a kid in third grade so you shouldn't vote for them. While primaries season is obviously important, the behavior of most political enthusiasts isn't that far removed from scoopers on internet gossip sites. While I'm not thrilled with the crop of Dem candidates, I absolutely can't stand the idea of any of the Republican dolts taking power. They're all just crazy as shit and seem to want to revert us to the age of snake-handling and Jesus-praising while torturing everyone who isn't white and shotgunning depleted uranium into poor kids' mouths. Even the least crazy candidate, McCain, has said and done things in the past that make me question his integrity as a potential leader.
Plus, he's like 94.
I don't want him to get into office and a year down the road suddenly - "HURRRRKNNNGGG* - he keels over from a heart attack after suddenly clutching the mantle in the Oval Office, or shrivels in his sleep, and then we're stuck with President Huckabee or Romney.
President Huckabee. It sounds like something from the Elks Club in Possum Ridge, Arkansas.(hat-tip to Bill Hicks)
And while Obama's a motivating personality and Hillary's a fairly resilient woman, I wish Edwards was way higher up on the totem pole. Unfortunately, when you make a career out of fighting corporate interests, it's hard to get people to stump for you in a presidential position.
Hillary just bothers the crap out of me though. While I feel a bit of sympathy for her due to the base misogyny leveled at her on a daily basis by brainless, doughy toadies like Chris Matthews and the idiots at FreeRepublic, her voting record and stances on many issues leave a lot to be desired. She's just way too much of a centrist(as is Obama, to an extent), and I grew tired of the people who wanted to offer an olive branch to the same assholes who are about to top off a near-decade of completely screwing up our country AND beating us over the head with sanctimonious religious bullshit until our heads were on the verge of bursting like in Scanners a long, long time ago.
Unfortunately, I feel a sense of desperation that I'm willing to vote for anybody that's marginally less fucked-up just to get rid of this current gang. I'd pick the guys from Jackass to run the country, for Christ's sake. At least Steve-O shooting rockets out of his ass on the 4th of July during a press conference on CNN would reek more of self-sacrifice than anything this band of douchebags could conjure up. I'm just so sick of the fake sympathy, the religious ass-kissing, the glorification of sheer stupidity, the hateful rhetoric towards everything that's not fat/white/American/Christian, the continued erosion of civil liberties, and the erosion of our country that I could violently puke clotted blood all over my desk on command like a Linda Blair reject.
What a fucking circus act.
And if another one of these bible-thumping Republican fucks manages to slither his way into office, Odessa and I are getting out of this country.
I made a big show of "we need to stick around and fight and take back what's ours" when Bush was re-elected, and the '06 elections - where we proceeded to kick some of these sons of bitches out of their cushy seats of power - were like a sexy beef-injection of hope, but now that everyone seems to have fallen into lockstep and we're still dealing with the same crap that we were before the '06 elections, I'm willing to say that this country is on the verge of jumping the shark. Again.
It's not defeatism, it's just realizing that a bunch of reality show-loving idiots who chew fast food like cud seriously might not have their best interests in mind despite all faith in the contrary. And I try to have faith in people, but I'll be damned if I'm not worried for the future of this place.
Posted by Jake at January 20, 2008 08:10 AM
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