Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Music: Dropkick Murphys - Time to Go
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Since this is the 150th post, I guess I'll act like a normal blogger and talk about friggin' politics.

Don't expect to get mad. I'm not going to argue any kind of case for anyone involved in the upcoming election. Just about everyone's made up their minds based on their set of life circumstances and personal experiences that I can never understand. In my mind, that's that. You're all figuring things out based on your own perceptions of right or wrong. Go for it. As a unique person who has led a unique life, I can't think the same way you do.I may have come to the same conclusion, but I guarentee that it didn't come from the exact same place yours did. We all have a lense of experience that colors our decisions, and I won't insult these experiences by trying to "convert" anyone. Run with what you know and feel confident.

I just have an observation. I did my daily swing by the Electoral Vote Predictor (it's over in the sidebar) and noticed something rather odd. Take a look at it. Check out that swath of red going across the country. Looks like Bush has it locked, doesn't it? Not really. We're still operating in the post-convention bounce period. Give it time to settle out and for the absentee ballots to come in and things will look much more evenly matched. But even in the current situation, take a look at the electoral vote numbers. Kerry's got 19 states as opposed to Bush's 31, and yet he's only, like, 50 electoral votes behind Bush.

Here's my point. I think that, on election day, the United States of America will be lost in a black hole of irony.

After the bouce has worn off, Kerry will probably re-take some more states with big cities. Let's say he takes the electoral college. But wait! Bush could still win the popular vote! The Republicans will begin to argue that the popular vote is what actually matters! The Kerry camp will counter with the supremecy of the Electoral College. Each side will call out the other, thus forcing themselves on the reversed sides of the Goddamned 2000 election. The sheer irony and patheticness of this situation will cause a black hole to open up above North America and suck the US in. Mexico and Canada will be spared. It wasn't their fault hypocracy is such a driving force in the universe.

That is my prediction for the 2004 election. Even if we are all destoryed in a vortex of contradiction, at least the fuckin' election will be over. Maybe in whatever is on the other side of a black hole we'll start treating eachother like human beings again.

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