Tuesday, November 04, 2008

It’s Official

My absentee ballot never arrived.  This year I will not be voting.  It’s not that big a deal, though.  If China has taught me one thing it’s how worthless voting is.

Think about it.  The Chinese have no chance to vote, they’re told beforehand who their next leader is going to be.  In America, depending on where you are registered, your candidate has no chance of winning.  When I lived in California it went for the Democrat every year.  Now I’m registered in Texas, and it goes Republican every year.  It’s been pretty apparent for the past three months or so that Obama was going to win.  Your vote, when you think about it, is functionally useless unless you happen to live in a battleground state.

I’m about 90% sure I’ll never vote again.  Every year I vote for the lesser asshole, and I’m sick of it.  Nobody I think will do a good job ever wins.  McCain is a douche and Obama is a phony.  (I mean, really.  Hopes and dreams?  Yes we can?  Who the fuck believes this crap?) Unless there’s a sea change in the political landscape after this election I think I’ll be sitting in the bleachers drinking beer, watching the monkeys on teh field thinking their vote counts for something.

Jaded?  Quote Palin, “Oh you betcha!”