Fucking done.

[haruhiko]

With the lolection season already starting to take shape for 2012, I'm ALREADY getting sick of people criticizing Obama for a multitude of very real, very heinous policy decisions... and then doing a total about-face and saying, "Oh, but I'm still gonna vote for him though, you'd be stupid not to, lololololol." Sorry, what

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[doe_witch]

Excellent rant and I couldn't agree more, especially with this:

voting for a Democrat like the one currently in the White House is no less of a waste of your time than my vote for a third-party nobody is a waste of mine

THANK YOU. I think this is like the exact thing I'm going to say the next time anyone tells me I'm wasting my vote with a third party (or the next time I second-guess myself about that vote). Because indeed, maybe it IS a waste of a kind, in that the candidate will not win, but it's just as much of a waste to vote for someone who will win but not perform at least 2/3 of what you wanted and expected them to. I mean, that's what truly confirms to me that the electoral system and even the very concept of our democracy are broken as fuck, but I'm not really of the "and that's why I don't vote" mentality; I would rather take direct action (what's really needed) and simultaneously throw a vote out for the anti-establishment candidate(s) just to tell them "yes, some people here care what you say, and thank you for saying it

[haruhiko]

it's just as much of a waste to vote for someone who will win but not perform at least 2/3 of what you wanted and expected them to. I mean, that's what truly confirms to me that the electoral system and even the very concept of our democracy are broken as fuck

Exactly. I'm not arguing that third-party voting is obviously~ the better choice or that Obama voters are deluded; I just challenge the widely accepted myth that their vote is significantly more effective at bringing about change than mine is simply because their candidate won. We have seen very little change in the status quo on war, the poor, the economy, and minorities, and we are supposed to take Lily Ledbetter and several specific health care reform laws and be good little grateful libruls who are happy with those piecemeal victories and would never dare complain about the way this administration has absolutely been an active obstacle to real change on a wide variety of other fronts.

but I'm not really of the "and that's why I don't vote" mentality; I would rather take

[sarcasm_hime]

Don't get me started; I ended up yelling at my dad the other week and having to leave the room and decide never to discuss politics with him again, because he was (once again) mocking NDP voters as idiots who waste their votes, and saying that if the NDP were in power the stock market would crash, chaos in the streets, etc. etc. -_-'

CATS WANT PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION PLZ

[haruhiko]

Awww, I think you should tell your dad that if the stock market would crash with the NDP in power, that speaks worse of corporations and our economic system than it does of the NDP itself. XD *lol* I discuss politics with my mom but since she is pretty apolitical (votes Dem most of the time but doesn't really follow the news, though if she has questions about current events she generally asks me since she knows I keep up on it and she doesn't trust her Korean lady friends' judgment because they pretty much all get their news filtered down through what their local pastor tells them to think @_@) so we never get to the yelling stage. If she had more of an opinion we'd probably have some loud conversations. XD