I’m not sure how to feel this morning other than bad. The prospect of four more years of Bush makes me physically ill. I wish I could be more like my loser peers and bask in apathetic ignorance. I have yet to hear a single person give an ethical reason to vote for Bush. Some vote because of their pocketbook, they like tax cuts. That equals greed. Others vote because they feel they will be “safer.” That equals ignorance, how can you feel safer with someone that let the attacks happen in the first place. Look at it this way: if Lego makes a new product line and 3000 children die when they touch it….would anybody give the president of the Lego company a second chance (even if the president had nothing to do with the development of the new toy)? Even Osama Bin Ladin told the world that he didn’t care who was in the white house, they would attack us anyway. Some people vote for Bush because they don’t like the idea that Kerry “betrayed” his fellow servicemen in Vietnam. Kerry went to Vietnam…Bush didn’t. Which is worse, speaking your mind about something you were going to give your life for…or using your daddy’s connections to get out of it in the first place? I love how four years ago the republican mantra was “the past doesn’t mean a thing”….. If it didn’t matter that George got a DUI (when he was NOT still a young man) with his wife in the car why does it matter that Kerry was a war protester when he WAS a young man? And if you think Kerry had less than genuine reasons for protesting that is fine too…I suppose you are going to tell me Bush was drinking that night (of his arrest) “for a good cause,” and when he sold all his stock right before his oil company ran into the ground I suppose he was helping out the other investors somehow… Another reason to vote for Bush is because he represents the christian ideology (if we just overlook that arcane “thou shalt not kill” commandment…I guess these people think god was a little iffy when he decided that one…). This thinking is wrong too. True, Bush will represent that idea of morality (outlawing abortion, stem cell research, etc.), but the whole concept of saying that a whole country should be run with the laws of one specific religion is wrong. After all, wasn’t that another excuse for us invading Afganistan…the Taliban kept women out of school and out of sight in accordance with their religious beliefs. If we are behind giving people the freedom of religion, why are we willingly taking it away from ourselves in our own country? Oh right, I forgot, because OUR religion is the RIGHT one!
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Chill, dude. Toke a spliff and catch fat bastards ‘911 agin. listen to jay-z. Us ‘oldins will continue to supply you ‘youngns with the best God, the best video games, and the best form of gov. in the universe. All you have to do is survive until you become an ‘oldin. If you be riding in a Lexus don’t bitch about the color less you makin’ the payments.
I hate Jay-Z, if this were a different climate (non-political) I would probably be bitching about the entertainment industry and how mindless that has become.. For example, Ass-lee Simpson’s lip synch incident coverup (“she was just sick, she usually doesn’t do that”) is spawned from (and believed by) the same mindset that thinks that we went to Iraq for something other than oil. I guess it shouldn’t be suprising that Bush can win by 3 million votes…when that is less than the amount of people that bought the last 50 Cent album…
Don’t get me started on the ClearChannel connection…
By the way, I am makin’ the payments on the “Lexus”…and just barely. I didn’t tell you guys this, but the real reason I don’t think I should come home for christmas is that I can’t afford it. I’m basically breaking even every month…that doesn’t leave 300-500 left over for a plane ticket. I know you’d probably offer to pay for it, but I took advantage of that generosity once this year. Now, granted, I’m not pleading poor, I live in a decent neighborhood and drive a nice car… But the great new Bush economy where everyone has a job and gets paid a good wage isn’t here yet…not even in California.
If I can’t find a way to bring in more money by August 2005, I won’t be able to pay for car insurance anymore. Nevermind the fact that I have to hope I don’t get sick or even get another cavity for who knows how long.
I believe that if Kerry had been elected, employers would be more optimistic about the future. I hadn’t even talked about that…but that is another reason, a very personal one, for me to mope this morning. Obviously the hope (however unrealistic it may have been) that the health care system could be improved in this country has an impact on me. So now instead of hoping for a better financial situation and getting healthcare… I have to hope I won’t get drafted and die.
The “lexus” was a metaphor for the world that the older generation gives the younger, not something we (your parents) gave you (andrew). However crazy this may sound-you will never be drafted-if there is one-because of your medical condition. If you were drafted you would not see combat (because of your condition) and you would get free medical. Crazy world, ain’t it? At this point the draft should be the least of your worries. And as for California dreamin’–there are always other options. No matter what happens (in Calif.) use it as a learning experience-one that a lot of people never get to even try. As to Kerrys promise-it was just a scam for votes. Nothing is free. Health care, just like food, has to be paid for out of excess production not “the rich’s” pocket. As to Jay-z—that was irony,son. Hang in there-the economic cycle will improve.
I know the Lexus was a metaphor.
I also know that there are several ways I could probably sneak my way out of draft eligibility. However, I was not just simply thinking of myself in my concern over the draft issue.
I’d rather pay for health care with excess production than war(s). Hmm…we have this money…we could help our own people, or kill some other people (and some of our own at the same time)….tough call…
I know the Jay-Z was irony, but the ultimate irony is that a lot of those kids who didn’t vote are the same ones that think Jay-Z is a “musical genius.”