Time to Vote!
Dr. X posts this from the Ohio Board of Ballot Equalization (Florida Liaison Office):
"I sent out my absentee ballot tonight. It was remarkably easy - you see, the ballot clearly identifies which political party the candidates belong to. So you can tell at a glance if you are voting for some crank (Libertarian), oddball (Peace and Freedom), or dictatorial lie-spouting hypocritical murdering asswipe fuckwad (Republican). I chose to vote for vaguely competent people who appear less-inclined to totalitarianism (Democrats). I suggest you do the same.
"I did so reluctantly, however. Certainly there are times when it makes a lot of sense to just vote for the 'best person' for each office. It makes sense, for example, when you live in a free Republic where both parties are equally committed to the survival of human rights and civil society. This is not one of those times, however. It's time to take down The Man.
"A kind word for Arnold, however - I could not find fault with his judical appointments."
posted by Latouche at Large at 8:10 PM
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Dr. X has really rather nailed the moment. This isn't ideology, it's a street brawl. There are bad guys with Rs after their names, their assorted dupes, occasionally interesting goofballs on the sidelines, and everyone else from disappointed anarchists to businessmen with anything more than a one-year growth plan - called the Democratic party.
Sure the Democratic party has no coherent ideology. Most people don't, and with any luck, we're most people, only with more bike chains, going by almost all the polls.
I find myself in a distant disbelief recalling fairly decent chaps like Goldwater, Hatfield, Hammond and in retrospect even Hickel, who were Republicans I had no personal animosity toward, I simply disagreed with them most of the time.
But this, this is a pie fight with pie knives, and pie guns, and pie-based cruise missles, with the future of America as the prize, and about the only thing that matters, like some Tammany Hall koan, is what team you're on.
In this climate, noting decency among Republicans is like pointing out the one slacker in the local biker gang who isn't gang-raping the Ewok in the alley behind Appleby's.
(An Ewok, by the way, named "America.")
Which is an unfair similie - to the biker gangs, the Jedi, and of course the Ewoks, who, I note, were not asking for it.
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