John McCain Invtented the Blackberry

jes says:
Thu, 18th Sep 200812:53 pm 

I think everyone here won their arguments! whoo!

Great job. Everyone looks like douchebags…

No but seriously, I’ve been dealing with this from my family for months now. And as a (year-round) politically minded girl, it’s getting really, really annoying.

All I ever hear are regurgitated rumors and completely irrelevant crap coming from the mouths of people who don’t know or give two shits about politics any other time. And yet, oh, its Election Time! Suddenly everyone’s a fucking porfessional political analyst.

My point is this:

Unless you can sit and have a non-biased discussion on policy, issued statements (and it doesn’t hurt to have a correct understanding of each candidate’s views- which may or not change with the wind) there’s absolutely no point in arguing over this irrelevant crap.

McCain or Obama… or effing Palin.. whoever. No one wants to hear a scripted speach and catch phrases over and over, or all these damn dirty ad campaigns that have nothing to do with our government.

This isn’t accomplishing anything, nor is it proving anything that actually matters in this coming election.

Our politics, as well as our perception of them, have completely gone to shit.

Our economy’s gone to shit.

We’ve got two major parties that both have very real failures, and yet are so supported by lobbyists and private industry that we have no chance of actually changing anything in the near future.

And yet all we do is rally behind one side and point fingers at the other and shout obsenities.

And in addition to that, we have people who vote for candidates based on whether or not they act like them, rather than their policies and expertise, and are running this damn country into the ground.

I wish the people in this country (who I know have sense) would realize how fucked we all are and actually stand up and say something about it.

And neither the Democratic or Republican nominees are the answer to the shit hole we’ve dug for ourselves due to greedy industry, bloated capitalism, lazy ego-centric attitudes and a general blase attitude towards our government.

One presdient cannot fix all of our problems, especially not one thats so wrapped up in one certain political party, and that partys traditions, to do what’s needed without having to worry about alienating people.

We need to dig our heads back out of our asses and take a look around.. gezus.

…Sorry, I definitely just went off on a tangent there… haha