gee, i love decisions on election day...

[acroyear]

who do i reward?  the republicans for gerrymandering 2 democrats out of a seat and putting me in the district of an extremely outspoken bigot with an astoundingly obvious corrupt pro-business history (who's gone even more reactionary in the current campaign to appease the tea party, who actually doesn't really have that big a presence here...), or the democrats for robocalling me daily, sometimes hourly, and waking my kid up every time we tried to actually give her a nap at home?

note that actual policy hasn't even come close to coming into play here...

sigh...

there's reasons this blog got less political (and considerably silent).  I'm just sick of it all now.  I can't even keep up with Ed Brayton's Dispatches since the move way from sci-blogs.  It used to be 4 a day, maybe 6.  Today, he can point out ultra right-wing hypocrisy stories up to 10 to 12 a day.  The fact that such bigotry (against gays, muslims, and atheists) and rampant political hypocrisy not only exists and festers, but actually has the active support of at least 30% of the population (and the another 20% are willing to turn a blind eye to it all in order to ensure their party wins the election by bringing out this basests of base) is getting to be just too much.

Comments

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

OMG!! The robocalls!! And then people knocking on my door. GO AWAY!!

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

Mind you, if you were registered as a Republican, you'd be getting the same number of robocalls from them, no doubt. (We've gotten some. Including one telling us to make sure to vote on Election Day and giving us the wrong date. Ick.)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Why isn't this prosecuted?

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

I suppose they could call it an error. I did tell the Cook representative at the polling site that we'd gotten it, and that I didn't approve. He said nothing, but to be fair, I didn't give him much time to.

[klytus.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I agree. Every single politician in my lifetime who was supposed to be "different" or promised to fight for "real change" has been no different from any other politician before or since. Hypocrisy runs rampant, money buys the elections, and well-over 50% of the voting public never even bothers to vote. Even during the "critical" elections for Bush's second term and then with Obama, there was still less than 60% total voter turnout.

This is so sad it makes me want to cry... but my tears would be just as useless as my vote for making a real difference in How Things Are Done™.