I am sick of hearing about respecting the other side, and about people being tired of hearing about the election. Fuck that. When the other side is actively working to take away rights from families like mine, that is a fucking attack. It's not politics for some of us. It hurts to know that my own parents, aunts, uncles, cousins are voting for someone who'd love to wipe our families off the map. We are having a hard time keeping the peace. It may be "one issue" for some people, but I'd be hard pressed to find one that is more important than basic fucking rights. How they can look at my kid's face and go in and vote for Romney. It just makes my blood boil. And they wonder why we won't move to the South. BECAUSE OF YOU, FOOLS! And I haven't even mentioned the anti-woman shit.
Sorry, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but there are few places I can say it without causing a family war so...
Asteroidist!
It ain't racist if its's true! They come to our planet and steal our jobs! And Sunlight!
Someone replied to a post of his saying that if Obama wins these will be the last free elections we have. I cannot even.
I think it's large with the hysteria; but I do recall people on the left saying much the same thing while Bush Jr was in power.
I think it's large with the hysteria; but I do recall people on the left saying much the same thing while Bush Jr was in power.
Yeah. But I think this kind of thinking is much more prevalent on the right this time.
I didn't *engage* with my conservative relatives, but I did tell them they were wrong in re: drug testing the poor being an excellent, and cost-saving project.
And, Defense cuts ONOZ!1.
a. In the first case, I didn't so much win the argument as know him for years and know tons of stuff that would blow his HardWorking FamilyMan avatar all to hell(like, him being a good reason for drug tests)
I am sick of hearing about respecting the other side,
I don't believe in respecting the other side when the other side is batshit crazy.
And right now I feel attacked by the whole "Victims who don't pay taxes" thing. I want to go all Phyllis LeBlanc on them and say they could come to my house any time in the last month and see how easy living on benefits is.
"I got my cellphone turned back on now."
And somehow, "Oh, dear, I didn't mean *you*," means less every cycle.
VOTED! Took 10 minutes including the drive. The advantage of seeing the parking lot from your patio. "Now! Lot's almost empty! GOGOGO"
The lady ahead of me in line was an election official. She said the lines had been out the door and around the parking lot for most of the morning, and she was only now getting a chance to vote herself. As I was leaving, the line was starting to back up to the door again. She said she'd been working the polls in this district for decades and she'd never seen such turnout before.
(sits with Ginger).
I've not been exactly avoidy, but I haven't pursued news, either. It's an uneasy hidey-hole, under the bed. I remember the five hours I stood in line in 2004 and the wonderful observations and impromptu friendships as the sun went down and the temperature lowered from late-summer to mid-fall, for which few of us were prepared. (Space blankets in our purses and pockets would have helped!) I remember the 20 minutes in line in 2008 and the goddam couldn't-cut-it-with-a-knife positivity in the room--you could tell the Republicans by the tight-pinched mouths and rigid body language. Mailing in the ballot this year gave me lots of time to investigate and research, and gave me a distinct feeling of accomplishment, pleasure, and hope as I dropped the ballot in the box. But I did miss the comaraderie at the polls.
(One typo I can let go, more? Gotta edit)
I read that we won't see any exit polls until the polls start closing on the East coast.
I already told you the results of my own personal exit poll. Ohio: 1 for Obama!
