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spoofus · 10-06-2004, 04:51 PM

I am a voter but most of the time I just don't know why. While I am the first to call a dyed-in-the-wool abstainer an ass, in many ways I see their point. I vote every time and I feel I get screwed everytime. Politicians are generally classic talking-head types in the same class as vacuum cleaner salesman and news anchors. Pretty faces with small ugly minds. Taxes are always higher, the intellectual environment is always bleaker, prospects for success for the non-ruling class are ever so predictably dismal. Why vote, the fix is in and has been for centuries. We all flap are gums and watch the debates and participate in the polls and read the results and prognosticate on the virtues of the current presented flock of idiots and everything, as usual, is totally out of our control. It is not that I am bitter, just let-down repeatedly by our elected officials. I don't truly think we elect anyone. Possibly the winners are being decided by the people on the inside. I don't really know what is going on but I can honestly say that I really don't care anymore. I suspect after voting in the USA for almost thirty years that the problem is a word called democracy. I have worked in highly skilled technical professions for most of my life and recall the standard printed cartoons of products designed by commitee. This is what democracy is. Just imagine every idiot that you have ever had the misfortune to come across in your lives, with every possible bizarre notion about all aspects of life, with no self-respect , no intelligence, no knowledge of anything of substance, no appreciation for the arts and sciences, no sense of how to treat people, or what is actually worthwhile as a field of endeavor or an interest or even a passing fancy, just imagine that these are the people that are COLLECTIVELY electing the next petty despot.
Now you get the idea. The problem is not with any of the details but the system. I really don't think that most of the people voting are qualified to do so. They can barely utter coherent sentences and only God knows but I suspect that they are not possesed of rationality in any form. Allowing the un-washed masses a say in things is ludicrous. That being said, I'm going for Kerry primarily as payback to Bush for being the small worm that he is. We should all spend the next four years after the election concentrating on having fun and learning some new stuff, how about?

10-06-2004, 04:51 PM	#30 (permalink)
spoofus Upright	This political thing Democracy is a crock I am a voter but most of the time I just don't know why. While I am the first to call a dyed-in-the-wool abstainer an ass, in many ways I see their point. I vote every time and I feel I get screwed everytime. Politicians are generally classic talking-head types in the same class as vacuum cleaner salesman and news anchors. Pretty faces with small ugly minds. Taxes are always higher, the intellectual environment is always bleaker, prospects for success for the non-ruling class are ever so predictably dismal. Why vote, the fix is in and has been for centuries. We all flap are gums and watch the debates and participate in the polls and read the results and prognosticate on the virtues of the current presented flock of idiots and everything, as usual, is totally out of our control. It is not that I am bitter, just let-down repeatedly by our elected officials. I don't truly think we elect anyone. Possibly the winners are being decided by the people on the inside. I don't really know what is going on but I can honestly say that I really don't care anymore. I suspect after voting in the USA for almost thirty years that the problem is a word called democracy. I have worked in highly skilled technical professions for most of my life and recall the standard printed cartoons of products designed by commitee. This is what democracy is. Just imagine every idiot that you have ever had the misfortune to come across in your lives, with every possible bizarre notion about all aspects of life, with no self-respect , no intelligence, no knowledge of anything of substance, no appreciation for the arts and sciences, no sense of how to treat people, or what is actually worthwhile as a field of endeavor or an interest or even a passing fancy, just imagine that these are the people that are COLLECTIVELY electing the next petty despot. Now you get the idea. The problem is not with any of the details but the system. I really don't think that most of the people voting are qualified to do so. They can barely utter coherent sentences and only God knows but I suspect that they are not possesed of rationality in any form. Allowing the un-washed masses a say in things is ludicrous. That being said, I'm going for Kerry primarily as payback to Bush for being the small worm that he is. We should all spend the next four years after the election concentrating on having fun and learning some new stuff, how about?