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Ah, rainy dreary election day. :-) Let's hope that isn't indicative of how things will go.

Yesterday, someone said to remember that today is election day. My auto quip back was "Yes, please remember to have your pet spayed or neutered", which got a chuckle, but really, I go back and forth on whether voting is truly worth it.

Don't get me wrong, so far as I can remember, I've voted in every election I've been eligible to vote in. But, nowadays, here in my state, it seems pointless. Nothing changes.

Years ago, in my "rants" list (which later became my weblog, then Livejournal), I ranted about the clinton debacle. That if it were a republican president, then the Dems would be baying for blood, and the repubs would be saying the president was being hounded. And, sure as shit, that's exactly what's happening. These people, for the most part, are idiots, out of touch with their constituencies, and wanting just to have power for the sake of power.

So, whereas I think it would be grand to have democratic control of the house and senate, I don't think it changes a single thing for us, individually, anymore.

Yes, that may be rampant cynicism that is current in my life, but I look back, and can't see a single thing my single, solitary vote does to change anything. Aside from breast-beating if the party I happen to vote for gets elected.

I wanted to go off the other night, at dinner. A guy who I tend to be middle of the road on had said that he was voting republican, across the board, because of John Kerry's comment. That irritated me. Not due to any issues of a particular candidate in the local races, but because John Kerry was dumb enough to talk, to "botch a joke", and to come off as elitist as he did during the presidential election.

*shakes head* Just ridiculous. Almost to the point of making me incoherent. :-)

So, today is work, when 90% of the building has the day off. That should be ok.

Am going to fall way behind in Nano this year. I'll write when I can, but I have a few other things taking priority. Got an 80% on my test last night, have Spanish homework due tomorrow by midnight that I'll be finishing tonite, so I can go be social tomorrow. In addition to several "small" things I have going on/hoping for.

How is your day going so far? Quiet? OMG busy?

Comments

[kack.livejournal.com]

If you don't vote - you lose the privledge to complain!

I'm voting with an absentee ballot!

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*nod* And that's how I've always viewed it, but complaining, or the right to complain, is overrated anymore. :-) Hence my annoyance at the fact that none of it changes, and very little with the situations or the "baying for blood" of one side or another changes.

I'm still trying to get out to go vote, I'm just annoyed as it seems to change very little here. Of course, if I ever move to another state, that may well change, too.

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

I'm cynical about our two-party system, but not nearly as cynical as you are. Will voting in a Democratic-run House matter to our current state of national disaster? Absolutely. The problem is that these days you're voting less and less for an individual and more and more for a party. And we only have two parties. It's sort of like picking which mafia you want to pay protection to.

That said, I had no hesitation as to which mafia to vote for this year.

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*heh* I'm still voting Dem, even though that was the major point of contention I had with that district's Dem leader who has been there for YEARS and is basically worthless.

I don't have faith that they have a plan. I sure as shit know they can't do MUCH worse. It wasn't a choice.

But there isn't a better option, and at this point, yeah, cynicism rules that there won't be. People vote against, every time. They don't like Bush's policies, or the track record congress has right now, but they think it'll magically change, without involving third parties. Feh, I say. :-)

but, I did my duty.

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you're talking aboust JUST Iraq, you're right. We're fucked. The only clean thing to do would have been not to invade. Now that we have invaded and our occupation is a disaster, there are really very few things that can be done about it, and most of those have truly ugly consequences. I'm starting to believe we may have to suck up those consequences, but the truth is there's no pretty future for Iraq, regardless of which party is in office.

That said, I'm frightened and enraged by the Bush Administration's behavior of ignoring the checks and balances that go with the office. Will a Democratic Congress do something about Gitmo? The PATRIOT Act? Warrantless surveillance of American citizens? The all-powerful drive of the War on Terror? Some if these are things that have been through the courts; Bush's policies have been rejected, but he hasn't stopped just because the pesky courts think Gitmo is unconstitutional. I'm very bothered by this, and I think a change in the party ruling Congress can make all the difference.

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

shower, vote and then work. ooooo the excitement....

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*HUGS* And sorry to hear about the chaos involved. I was annoyed that they had no paper receipts. No paper trail on what my vote was. Grrrr...

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

see my post. it was fun. sigh....hopefully it'll get worked out thursday. it's hard for me to not have sympathy for the inspector though, been there in other ways. i'm pretty sure he's a volunteer too.

200 years ago they warned us about this.

[goldstep.livejournal.com]

"However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm