after work today i planned to catch news headlines on the radio, then switch to the tape player for my hour long drive home. unfortunately, the news was preempted by a speech featuring yet another plea for war from president bush, continually sounding like the boy who cried wolf. i didn't need to hear more than a couple sentences of his war mongering doubletalk before i flipped off the radio and cursed the insanity of bush's misguided slippery slope foreign policy. if i weren't already so cynical about politics in general i would be more upset with this intolerable situation. unfortuantely i am pragmatic enough to recognise, after 30 years of voting for or against this or that fool on the ballot, that our governance options are constrained by the disgraceful corruption of the powerful and by the apalling ignorance of the masses who fall for what is little more than political marketing. true, this president achieves new lows for misleading people, abusing power and crying war while the economy, as trashed by his henchmen, is in shambles. i hope the democrats do well in the upcoming election so we can return to complete legislative gridlock, disempowering either party from their self-enriching agendas. i'd rather see our government incapacitated than see the republican agenda advance. i don't mind if the democrats attempt to advance their agenda because they are generally incompetant and rarely accomplish much so they can't really hurt anything. but the republicans are cold hearted and steely eyed thieves with unbounded arrogance and negative ethics. they need to be stopped, hence my willingness to vote for democrats in spite of generally disagreeing with their hand wringing platform. in the absence of true options for a reasonable government, i'll continue, with clear eyes and a guilt free conscience, to vote intentionally for inertia.
posted by Will Ross at 22:33