I am voting for…
Nobody!
If you’re an American of the United States variety you may have noticed there’s an election going on, and on, and on, and on. It’s been a long standing tradition amongst our culture in this great nation to stretch out events as long as possible, if you’re not picking out presents in August you might as well end it all now because god knows your grandchildren need new socks at the ready for that special day oh so many months away.
You might be shaking your head, asking “What’s with this guy? Of course it means something, it means everything!” But does it really? When was the last time you were directly affected by a new president? You might be saying “My brother is in a foreign country because of war!” or “I’m in the poor house because our president ruined the economy!”. Well I have a secret for you, economic turns and wars happen regardless of who is in office!
We had a VERY prosperous 10 years or so during the Clinton era, what else happened during that time? The dot com boom, and what happened around 9/11? The dot com bubble burst! Several new jobs were created and just as quickly several jobs were just as quickly dissipated. Same with wars and threats, we have Vietnam, Iraq v1, Kosovo, Cuban missle crisis hell every little skirmish in the middle east ties up our military for decades. Do you think it really makes that much of a difference who is in office?
I grew up in Arizona and McCain has always been great he’s changed in his political views a lot during this campaign. Obama is a great charismatic person who has a lot of views that fall in line with my own, but how can we really know who he is? In the end what is the difference between the candidates? Race? Age? Tax plans that have a history of not being enacted and even so are different by mere fractions? It’s always going to be the same, the rich people will always be taxed more, the poor people will always want more social services.
Nothing will change and we will always progress regardless of who’s in theoretical charge. I say we vote, vote for apathy, don’t vote at all who cares in the end anyway? If you decide to vote anyway, vote for progress, progress for progress sake is better than doing nothing regardless of the outcome.
edit: Vote Stephen Baldwin
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