Yes, Dear Readers, it's been a long eighteen months or so of endless debates, mind-numbing statistics, distortions (and outright lies), quotes taken out of context, accusations of horrifying levels of voter fraud, vast amounts of money wasted on air time (most of it just hot air), leaflets, roadside signs, robo calls, and all the other physical and moral detritus of a political campaign.
Now it's up to us.
I'll be going to the polls on the way to work to vote in the most depressing and disheartening election since I cast my first vote for president in 1972 (I voted for Richard Nixon). The Republican Party has driven me away and the Democrats have nothing to offer. The election offers a stark choice between two fundamentally different views not only of the nation's problems, but of reality itself. Rabid partisans of both sides predict a horrifying apocalypse if the other guy is elected, which doesn't bode well for their ability to work together after the electoral dust settles ...
REM has the right idea ...
It's going to be tough to vote, but you've got to do it.
Good luck.
Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
I agree -- it's a disheartening set of choices! Oh well, maybe in 2016 they will be better.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that the Democratic party has nothing to offer. When you have 2 sides that are working against each other totally you can't get anything done.
ReplyDeleteI think we might be thinking differently about Obama if the midterm elections hadn't turned into a teaparty.
Vote with a clothes pin on your nose.
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