One of the sadder facts about this year is that of all things I choose to comment on the upcoming election as my first topic of the DORL blog in 2012.
It used to be a big deal for me to vote. When I was a kid, I waited with baited breath for the year 1986 to come around becaused then I would be 18 and of voting age. I would be able to control this country's destiny and be able (chuckle) to make a real difference (snicker) in our coun try's future.
Yeah right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. I over romanticize it but each time I voted I have had to use a Sharpie to complete my ballot and let a machine suck it into a big plastic box. When I was a kid, I got to walk behind the curtain of a gunmetal grey voting booth with my dad and watch as he pulled a lever down to clear the board aand open a curtain. An example is pictured below.
It was gonna be so cool. I feel cheated. These things have been demonized since the election of 2000, where Florida botched the general elections, but it was one of the things about being a grown up that I was looking forward to, along with driving, working downtown in an office, and not having a bedtime. All of which got destroyed when the realities of life decided to rear their head.
Okay, enough of the "Wonder Years" crap
The men who have held the office of President of the United States in order since I have been alive are, in order: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Now, I can only claim repsonsibility for one of them...the first George Bush....and W. Other than that since I have been of voting age I voted for Ross Perot.
It was then that I realized that voting in elections is the biggest overly patrotic jokes in this country.
Some would say a vote for an independent candidate is a wasyed vote by I maintain that if a candidate is viable, why shouldn't you vote for him? Are we so lazy in this country that there are only two choice each time we go to the polls? Apparently so, because all the money goes to the action figures we nominate and one of them wins.
I am not impressed by our president, whom I voted for begrudgingly in 2008, because he's had a chance to try and fix our facked up country, nor am I really that impressed with the offering of the other party, with the excpetion of Ron Paul. I think he is the most intelligent of the bunch of idiots on the GOP side, but just barely. Either way he will either get a VP nod or lose miserably.
This copuntry needs a STRONG indie candidate. One that can win. Not some whack job that will put us on the Cap'n Crunch standard for money, but one with ideas from both sides and those of his own with practical solutions for the country's problems. I hope for that, but am disappointed every year.
Ah well...we're off and running on 2012, blog-wise!
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