I want some music or some list or some fucking squirrel-ghost to land on my shoulder and to tell me that everything is going to be all right. I want Jack Black to appear on my side and yell in my ear that LOOK WE ALL DID THE RIGHT THING AND VOTED BIDEN just like we did in our Rocky Horror homage. I know my Dad voted Biden. I know my Mom voted Biden. I know I voted Biden. I know if you're reading this you may have voted Biden too.
But I'm still listening to Starcrawler at the top of Arrow de Wilde's lungs. And I still keep burying my forehead into my palms.
Why does the future seem so bleak? Why as I type this do I feel like I'm tossing pizza crust? Why is it so difficult to feel okay about this vote? It not only feels defeating despite all the numbers indicating that Biden and Harris are kicking this idiot's ass.
They have worked so hard to make good policy seem awful.
They have demonized Obamacare. They have put false fangs on Social Security and Medicare. They call them "entitlements" even though you have already bought them with your money.
I see this meme sometimes that says something about "two wings of the same bird." Before you post this meme you might google it. This is a specific reference to Cuba and Puerto Rico and does not from its origin refer to our politics on the mainland. But it's stupid regardless. As Steve Benen documents in his fine book The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics America is made up of one party who still cares about public policy and one who does not.
Guess which is which.
They are not the same. There is one party in the United States that stands for decency and good things, and wholesome American values. That party is the Democratic party, and it is now led by the presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.
I so adore her. I mean, I like Joe, but I crush on Kamala so hard. Right?
The other party is the Republicans. And they subvert democracy. They withhold U.S. Justice appointments for ten months and then act like it's normal. They tear nursing babies from their mamas tits and expect you to think it's okay. They support a preznit who actively spreads COVID wherever he goes and doesn't care.
I could write so much more but I'm getting tired.
But let me offer some perspective as a man who has lived so far to be 52 years old, which means that Richard Nixon was made preznit just four years after I was born. In my early years Nixon was the most corrupt preznit we've ever seen, then came Reagan, then came GHW Bush, then came his son.
Why do Republicans keep presenting us with more and more trash? And why does it get worse and worse and more horrifying? Until now they just said HERE'S THE WORST PERSON IN AMERICA. LET'S MAKE HIM THE PREZNIT OF THE UNTIED STATES.
Both parties are not the same. And if you vote for Howie Hawkins or Daffy Duck or some shit, you are voting for Donald Trump.
Thank you for bearing with my nonsense but please please vote Biden/Harris.
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