I live in upstate NY. Being somewhat of an activist and seeing how there are elections this year, I've been paying some attention to the political scene and I've come to the conclusion that Americans - at least in this part of the country - are completely fucking retarded. Here is why.
I see an ad in the local paper paid for by the Sheriff's Employee Association of Rensselaer County (SEARCO). They are supporting Gary Gordon, who the ad describes as the ONLY REGISTERED CONSERVATIVE. Now, am I mistaken or aren't unions perceived as the "enemy" by conservatives? To make it better, this same man is also running on the Democrats and the Working Family tickets - two parties which are generally labelled as "liberal". HOW THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN? So apparently, "Democrat", "liberal", "conservative" all have no meaning any more. Or is it that a bunch of people who are really republican or conservative at heart simply signed up as Democrats to skew the vote?
I have to wonder and be concerned now because recently some members of the Democrat party were involved in a scandal wherein they allegedly forged the signatures of voters. Now I have to wonder if they were really Democrats or simply more of these Republicans registered as democrats to commit mayhem and cast doubt and suspicion on honest Democrats?
A further example, I saw a sign in the window of what had been an empty storefront proclaiming "Democrats for Mantello". Carmella Mantello is the REPUBLICAN nominee. So why would Democrats try to get her elected? Especially since there is a Democrat also running for office? Meanwhile, a local man, Jack Knox, is running independently of both parties and was accused by the Republican party of forging signatures on his petition to run as mayor. The local court dismissed the charges as "unfounded". Apparently, dishonesty and corruption isn't the monopoly of elected officials. It is rampant among the rank-and-file as well. If we can't be honest as voters, how dare we hold our elected officials up to a higher standard than we hold ourselves? This country has become rotten and corrupt right to it's core.
The thoughts and rantings of a non-partisan human being who is sick of the stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, filth and corruption that pollutes the human species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 comments:
"Democrats for" a Republican and "Republicans for" a Democrat are as old as the hills. You just find a disgruntled partisan whose faction lost at the primaries and let him take out his grudge for your benefit. Independents will use the same tactics. There's no law -- thank goodness -- requiring a registered partisan to vote for or even support his party's nominee. But it does make you wonder why such a person stays in the old party instead of switching sides or starting a new one.
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