On crawling out from under a rock
Nov. 1st, 2004 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseIn a quest to find out wtf is up with the black hoodies, I followed the link provided by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mistressrenet and watched Eminem's new video.
What's happening in Iraq is terrible and tragic and it needs to find a resolution. I don't know what that resolution is. I don't think Bush knows what the resolution is. I don't think Kerry does either. The question on everyone's mind at the polls tomorrow will be whether the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know. NO ONE KNOWS THAT YET. Maybe you think you know, but you don't, unless the American public at large has developed mass prognostication.
As far as the war goes, though, let's not forget that Vietnam was many times worse, and Nixon got elected by telling the public he had a secret plan to get us out of Vietnam. Anyone but LBJ! It ended up being expanding the war effort.
My feeling towards this election was summed up nicely by Stan Marsh and the geniuses who write South Park: it's either a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Certainly now more than ever, but the choice has always been between a turd and a douche. There have been some pitiful public servants in our #1 office. Dubya is hardly a new specimen. And please don't anyone tell me that Clinton was the second coming because he wasn't.
Bush's Christian fundamentalism and anti-abortion stance is what would keep him from getting my vote more than anything else. But I have to say - isn't it easy to get wrapped up in spin, to believe what you want to believe, to make a saint out of someone you want to believe in but who isn't necessarily worthy of your faith, if you were minded to be more objective about it?
What pisses me off most is blind adherence to dogma and orthodoxy, no matter which side it's on. I see a lot of that in this election.
So tomorrow, who will it be - the giant douche or the turd sandwich?
I'll take the cow.
mistressrenet and watched Eminem's new video.What's happening in Iraq is terrible and tragic and it needs to find a resolution. I don't know what that resolution is. I don't think Bush knows what the resolution is. I don't think Kerry does either. The question on everyone's mind at the polls tomorrow will be whether the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know. NO ONE KNOWS THAT YET. Maybe you think you know, but you don't, unless the American public at large has developed mass prognostication.
As far as the war goes, though, let's not forget that Vietnam was many times worse, and Nixon got elected by telling the public he had a secret plan to get us out of Vietnam. Anyone but LBJ! It ended up being expanding the war effort.
My feeling towards this election was summed up nicely by Stan Marsh and the geniuses who write South Park: it's either a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Certainly now more than ever, but the choice has always been between a turd and a douche. There have been some pitiful public servants in our #1 office. Dubya is hardly a new specimen. And please don't anyone tell me that Clinton was the second coming because he wasn't.
Bush's Christian fundamentalism and anti-abortion stance is what would keep him from getting my vote more than anything else. But I have to say - isn't it easy to get wrapped up in spin, to believe what you want to believe, to make a saint out of someone you want to believe in but who isn't necessarily worthy of your faith, if you were minded to be more objective about it?
What pisses me off most is blind adherence to dogma and orthodoxy, no matter which side it's on. I see a lot of that in this election.
So tomorrow, who will it be - the giant douche or the turd sandwich?
I'll take the cow.
