Well, tell me why I'm wrong. "Way to throw your vote away, Jenn." Look, I was really looking forward to electing a new, humanoid President. After eight years of George Bush, you'd have to be a heartless, self-absorbed amoeba-brain or Ann Coulter (wow, there's a redundancy, I really must strive for more economical sentences) to not ache to oust the Republican Party from the highest office in the nation.
The thought of kicking the elephant out of the room made some delirious, I guess; assuming that after nearly a decade of a bumbling, stumbling, shoot-first-ask-never Bible boy, the middle of the country would instantly gravitate towards the Democratic Party, and sweep the lucky nominee into the office of Commander in Chief, to begin a first term of progress, with a mind towards prosperity and peace, valuing the tenets of humanism above all.
As it stands, the Democratic side of the primaries has now been reduced to "the chick vs. the black guy", with the issues of either candidate playing second chair sax to their immediate distinguishing features. Whoever wins the nod will have gone through such a needlessly arduous media-fueled clusterbang that the fence-dwelling among the voting public will decide to play it "safe" and go with God, ie, the Republican nominee. Which could be either John "Lighten Up and Get a Life" McCain or Mike "I'd Rather Fuck a Tree Than Vote For" Huckabee. So you remember.
I could be off-base (like Tim Raines), or I could be totally on base (also like Tim Raines), but we aren't even done the South Carolina primaries and already I get this feeling of sinking stones in my guts. The mortgage crisis, health care, the war in Iraq...and now go back four years and fill in some more problems. And the four years before that, and before....Who do you believe in and why? The candidate who looks like you, or has the same reproductive system you do? Are you an automatic party pusher? Is having a president all about saying "my guy is in", and then that's enough?
Do you still think the system can work? Do you think change can be affected? Can an entire nation lead a world that distrusts it at best and despises it at worst? Should an entire nation lead a world?
I shouldn't be this way, ending all my sentences with question marks, but goddamnit, all I have is questions. I'm a waffler, then, a citizen without solid answers, lacking the fiber to say what I believe and that's that, damn the torn Speedos.
Why can't I just believe in my uncertainty? When did questions that can't be answered by Google or Wikipedia become so verboten?
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