gee, i love decisions on election day...
Nov. 8th, 2011 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearwho 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.
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.
