vicarz: (One eye'd cat)
vicarz ([personal profile] vicarz) wrote2008-11-04 02:59 am

I am wearing socks

Ugh...I know I talked a lot of politics, but ... voting is such a pain. I think I've done enough by posting my views here - why ask me to show up at some stupid school down the street? I mean, I have to go to work, the gym, get food, drink/smoke - and really they all suck anyway and nothing is ever going to change. Also, no matter who you vote for unless you do a 3rd party you have to vote for some old white guy. I want to vote Obama-Palin because they're both young. It's just not worth it. Really, don't vote and don't tell me to vote - it's not your business. I don't need to fall into that stupid trap.

The funny thing is the election isn't going to create miracle cures whomever wins, both in the stupid election that everyone is talking about, and the little ones no one cares about - you know - for congress and local elections? If Obama wins, McCain people, guess what? Business as usual with some tiny modifications. If McCain wins, Obama people, business as usual with some tiny modifications.

I take back what I said/implied with my observation that the Obama signs on Wash blvd were all taken down and replaced with McCain - now all of the non-local signs were yoinked. I wish either side's supporters took the signs down after the election.

Being awake now means a long day later.

Don't vote. It's stupid. Disenfranchised against voting

[identity profile] n8-zilla.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
really? REALLY?
were the wholesale rape of the bill of rights, the decimation of our country's international prestige, the criminal negligence of federal disaster response, or swelling of the top 1%'s bank accounts at the expense of the rest of us that followed the result of the 2000 election merely "business as usual with some tiny modifications" ?

voting is a responsibility of citizenship. a whole lot of people took the dirt nap quite a bit earlier than they needed to so that you and i would have the opportunity to exercise that responsibility. it's unfortunate that you dismiss such a thing so blithely.

[identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's so gay.

No, not really. Shhh...come on now, you read my LJ, right? Dry, not always funny, but very dry.

[identity profile] n8-zilla.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
perhaps a little more parched than usual?

[identity profile] freja999.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic or use reverse psych or something, but all I have to say about that is this:

How different would our country, our WORLD would have been if eight years ago the election turned out differently? How many lives in Iraq would be different...or saved? How different would our economy, energy usage, military usage be? Would we have found Bin Laden if our military and intelligence wasn't diverted?

Same stuff with just a little difference with either Bush or Gore? I think not. These elections matter. All of them.

[identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Gay. That's gay.

You got the mall shooter thing...

Yes! Don't vote - Revolt !

[identity profile] rmerciless.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly, you are absolutely correct. Voting is stupid and can change nothing as society is structured.

Only violent revolution to overthrow the corrupt foundations of western society will bring about the fundamental change we seek.

Today, after I get off work, take care of my kid, and run some basic errands, I am going to get started on that revolution... if I have time. Sort of a busy day. It might have to be tomorrow.

[identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay marxism! I did just watch the x-files movie...

[identity profile] frontdoorangel.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The candidate signs actually do tick me off. Not that people show them, but, that it is true that people who put them randomly on the side of the road rarely come back to pick them back up after. I know one election several signs ended up waterlogged and rotting in the ditch along the side of my road.

[identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed, and that idiocy is on both sides. It bugs me that they tear each other's signs down...anyway, it's just a name on a piece of paper. Who is out there who doesn't know the candidates and then votes based solely on the sign? Eek.