What’s a poor anarchist to do?
I hate elections. (Oh, I still vote in them, because I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, well, at the very least you voted against Bush/Santorum/Specter. But that’s what I’m doing. I’m voting against.) And one very big reason I hate elections is that I hate hate hate election ads. We have three hotly contested congressional seats in the Philadelphia suburbs right now and all six combatants have the gloves off. Seriously, these grown people and their grown campaign managers are so snide, nasty and weird that I’d have given them all times-out and cancelled movie-night if they were my kids. They call each other names, accuse one another of lying — they do everything short of hurling insults at each other’s mothers. In one ad, the incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach accuses his opponent Lois Murphy of taking money from “that radical, extremist group, Move On.org.”
Now seriously folks. Radical, extremist? This is Ben we’re talking about, of Ben and Jerry’s, makers of Phish Food ice cream. And even if you don’t agree with them, what’s with the radical and extremist bit? Aren’t those our current words for Osama Bin Laden, rather than a rather minor American political activist group? Clearly, even polite resistance to the current political status quo in the United States is on a par with terrorism.
Yeah, I know. You knew that already.
Damn elections. Make sure you vote or there really is no point whatsoever.
Oh, and while I’m raging about yesterday’s radio offerings, if I had to hear that crazy-ass helter-skelter-eyed idiot who thinks he’s president say “We are winning [in Iraq] and we are going to win…” one – more – time, I was going to eat my own head. What the hell are you talking about, Bushforbrains? You told us the “war” was OVER. What is there left to win? The sweepstakes? A raffle for a signed copy of the Iraqi constitution complete with the bloodstains of several hundred thousand dead Iraqis and international soldiers? There is nothing in my life which makes me wonder more if we’re all on some particularly sick episode of Candid Camera, it is that GWB is president.
EDIT: Now this is more like it. My heartfelt and still-giggling thanks to Monkey for helping put this all into persepective. Click the link. You won’t be sorry.
Makes me want to move away from here till Nov. 8th. I hate this crap too. And, really, do they honestly think us folks at home are swayed by the slander and bashing! It always makes me made the impression they must have of the general public to even bother. I too vote according to who I don’t want running my life.
A friend who is completely disgusted by the hateful ads made this for me. It kind of sums it up.
friend are you there? come visit me, let’s chat!
OH, AMEN, SISTAH!!!
You’re right – I wasn’t sorry. HAhahahahaha…
It’s hard to want to vote. Women always get screwed no matter who is in office. I leaning toward non-participation, but I am voting this year for the very important ballots that are up. But other than that, who cares? None of them answer to the voters come November 9. Then it’s all about the lobbyists. Love democracy. LOVE IT.
When I first starting reading, I thought you said “I hate electrons”…and I was thinking “Why? They are so small and what have they ever done to you?” Then I read the next sentence and realized my mistake.
It really is shocking how ugly the campaign ads are this year. We constantly tell our children that they should not be overly competitive, that they should not use their words to hurt others, that they should talk about their own accomplishments and as opposed to talking about someone else’s mistakes, that they should always be truthful and should not be mean. But then we have grown ups behaving this way and succeeding. It makes me wonder if we have it wrong (except I don’t want my son to grow up to be another GWB).
So yeah, this is not an election I feel very good about voting in. Electrons, on the other hand, I am all for. Long live electrons!
I’m really having a hard time believing that my vote makes a difference at least in my state. The alternatives to the incumbents are just as stupid and have zero chance of being elected.