Election

I’ve been traveling the past couple of days, and I haven’t felt up to a full-bore rant about the election results and the broken direction our country is careening. Below is my somewhat scattered set of thoughts. It contains profanity and makes no attempt at being polite. Consider yourself warned.

First off, the Democratic party must die. They’ve failed. The big “D” is just a colossal mish mash of everyone who’s not the majority in this country. I spit on the weak kneed, shotgun married, useless coalition that is the Democratic party. If the leaders of the future are currently slumming in there, please get out and form a real party that can stand up for itself. In 2008, I’m voting for Jesse Ventura. I’m not wasting my vote on a pack of losers again.

So much for “get out the vote,” eh? Turns out that for every college kid who can be convinced to put down the bong and go vote, there are 1.1 evangelical christians who are willing to take a Tuesday morning off from cross burning and child molesting. Next time, leave the stupid bastards apathetic. Trust me, thinking people already vote.

As an Op-Ed piece in the Times said today: So much for the enlightenment. This country was founded on enlightenment ideals. A dispassionate belief in reason, and a fundamental trust in the ability of humans to make good decisions about our own government. We’ve just demonstrated that when you get most of us out of vote, you find that we really do want to be a messianic theocracy.

So much for separation of powers, eh? Eh? EH???. This is the very, very worst part of the two party system: In an extreme year, it becomes the one party system. Now these ass tickling bastards have both houses, the executive, and the judiciary.

I finally understand the true, subtle shafting that Carl Rove gave us. The “fight the gays” thing was smooth. The “vietnam vet is a coward, service dodger is a hero” softened us up for the final big lie. It was so big, I didn’t see it until after it passed. Bush got us into fuckin’ Iraq and then ran an election in which one of the primary issues was who would handle the Iraq debacle better. It hurts my brain to wrap around this. We’re talking about a party with the sheer balls to start a shit-fight in the middle east and then claim that they’re the only ones qualified to manage the debacle that they started.

Here’s the core of it: We voted, my team lost. They weren’t even really my team, but I voted for Kerry and he got handled. Rove was too much for him. Bush waged the contest with such smooth, devastating violence. We all came out, we all voted, we lost. So be it,

What the hell happened with the gay marriage initiatives? Sweet Jesus, people, they’re state constitutions. You don’t put speed limits in the constitution! The constitution provides a framework on which rules are made and…oh who the hell am I talking to, anyway. You all either agree with me already or are never going to change your minds. Fuck you bastards who think that you need to legislate what happens in my basement. Fuck you, you homophobic bastards. Fuck you, you racist, bigoted, christian-without-the-christ’s-mercy imbeciles. Go die, never vote again.

I can’t wait to read the news tomorrow.

I think I’m going to chill to a friend’s techno radio show and then fall asleep.