Dr. Toughlove or: How I tought Patrick to stop worrying and love the Obama.

[darkmattr]

I have a coworker named Patrick, he is a loveable doofus, a 30 something who lives at home with his parents. Every day Patrick comes in to work, tells me how many video games he's bought, and then after discussing his love for first person shooters for about an hour, the talk always goes to politics

Comments

[geekyerin]

What's wrong with not voting for someone who won't win? You maybe be standing up for your ideals, but the truth of the matter is there are nly 2, 3 candidates, tops, who ever have a chance, so why waste your vote? Just do what I do, and choose the most attractive one. ;) I used to care about this bullshit when I was 18, but this country has done quite enough to prove to me that it doesn't work, it's doesn't change, and it doesn't matter.

[darkmattr]

Voter Apathy is so 2000.

[geekyerin]

Nah, I actually voted in 2000. ;)

[kai_ta_loipa]

i gave my mom a very similar lecture a while back.

[lunameow]

The British husband is absolutely convinced the Republicans chose Palin deliberately as a calculated move to lose the election. He figures eight years of Bush have screwed us far beyond anything four years of ANYONE else is going to be able to fix, and they'd rather have the nation looking back in 2012 and blaming Barack Obama and the Democratic Party for not fixing it than have us be blaming Republicans for making it even worse than they already did.

If that's true, though, I think they're underestimating the voting power of a whole bunch of redneck folks who are scared to death by a black man, especially one with a Muslim name.

[ohinternets]

I'm a registered Libertarian (I bristle a little at the term "fiscal republican" even as I acknowledge it's probably accurate). What's interesting is that the defection seems to run both ways. The Libertarian party is falling apart from within. Bob Barr certainly doesn't represent any sort of Libertarian tradition. He just seems to be a Democrat with some sound economic policy ideas than most. I voted for Michael Badnarik in '04, quite happily, even as 90% of my fellow Libertarians did not, but Barr outright sucks. I know a great many of us are defecting to the Republican Liberty Caucus.

[polychrome_baby]

Prescient.