Fear and Loathing on the MIDTERM ELECTIONS
Prologue
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As the title clearly suggests, this is about the mid-term elections that are happening today in the USA. Some of my co-workers have relatives on the other side of the great body of water that protects us from such great freedoms as The Second Amendment, Affirmative Action, Obesity, Red Lobster Restaurant Chains, Fox News and the G.O.P. (typing this from my flat located in South East London's commuter belt, I am of course talking about the Atlantic) and my boss even spent part of his youth growing up in Brooklyn NYC, all making this a potentially interesting intra-office debate.
It of course wasn't as any debate where no-one seems to hold any strong mindsets. My boss, despite spending part of his time in the US, is of Grenadian descent, while me as a Russian-BritChav dual national one day hope to go to New York to walk around 5th street to shop for sneakers and get wasted in Manhattan and pretend i'm a 23 year old version of Gordon Gekko (or shed a tear in New Jersey outside Princeton thinking "if things were different, i could have gone to OXFORD and spent 6 months here during my master's on an exchange program c:"), but whether the Democrats or the Republicans win, neither one of us is affected in any major way or form.
US Politics were climaxing 2 years ago, when everyone seemed to be cheering CHANGE! CHANGE CHANGE! only to not see any change or progress (yet being oblivious to the fact that should the outcome of the presidential election have been any different, we would have seen a potential change for the worse).
Getting a flashback to 2 years ago, if I recall correctly, this was a contest of a young charismatic presidential hopeful (and a potential first black president) very narrowly defeating the Senator (of arguably the most powerful state in the US (and a potential first woman president) while the <3Bill embers were still burning hot) in the Democratic primaries, then choosing a (also very charismatic and on top of that, a very experienced senator with pretty much his name emboided on the Delaware seat) running mate, to go ahead a 73 year old senile womanizer allegedly unable to use e-mail without assistance, a promise of continuing dubya-style template of policies, and on top of all choosing the ex-prom queen (Xd plz) Governor (Xd plz x2 COMBO) of Alaska (zlq bX) that additionally made a public spectacle of both herself and Mr McCain in the heavily analysed series of debates and media events (Xp dlz), and taking all of this into consideration, the election results were 52.9% to Obama, 45.7% to McCain.
Which brings me to this point: objective US elections aren't very be objective. One could get endorsed by the trio of Joseph Stalin, RIchard Nixon and Ayatollah Khamenei and still get ahead after a quick airbrush TV session, make some bold sounding yet vague statements involving midway opinions on mildly contraversial topics and recover, as Media Appearence is what matters more than experience in (well, any country not just the USA). (at the fear of summoning Richard Nixon from hell by using him twice in one sentence, I will only briefly mention the 1960 presidential debate of smiling and suntanned Jack Kennedy versus a drowsy and sick from flu Dick Nxn (perhaps while the first spent 2 weeks in Hawaii, the second spent it at a boot camp with Satan, learning the valuable skills which made him such a lovely and popular personality) and for those of us too young to remember the outcome of 1960 elections, JFK won C: )
I will attempt to quickly wrap this up by using the final word: MEDIA! even though the 06 and 08 house of commons, senator, etc elections were somewhat damaged by 8 years of DUBBYA-WISION))) and the democratic party STILL had visible problems overcoming some states and in the presidentials, after those 2 years of butthurt republican media comletely disintegrading (somehow unfairly imo c:) both Obama, and the entire democratic party with some nice claims of being a Socialist (THEM COMMIES HAD FREE HEALTHCARE TOO, OBAMA IS EVIL), Radical Muslim (LOL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, ALSO HUSSAIN MIDDLE NAME!! WE TOOK DOWN A HUSSAIN IN 2003 NOW U BRING ANOTHER), ass-slave of oil companies and BP in particular (footage not found due to allegedly Senator Prescott Bush (G.W.'s father, W's gradnfather) being wery rich through a lot of Texan and Middle Eastern Oil (and a touch of Nazi Gold c: )) as well as Obama the Pirate (LOL HIS FATHER IS KENYAN, THAT HAS TO BE SOMEWHAT CLOSE TO SOMALIA, THEY BOTH IN AFRICA AMIRITE) will be somewhat damaging to the Democrats (to put lightly). At least California's Proposition 19 will be a humourous edge.
Epilogue
This will not be as interesting or as touching as the UK elections for me at least, and even in the US, no real opinions and large amounts #care will be shown by everyone apart from the people directly involved (and let's not forget their trustfund kiddies who actually do get to go to Ivy League Establishment unlike me who just has to go to the park and sit near an Ivy as a substitute (being on the commuter green belt of london, this is fairly easy to do), as this is just another flipside of a long history of any 2-party system in the World, where a lot is exchanged between parties and parties promising a lot to the public during pre-election followed by fluctation of government with no potential changes offered. I will go to work in a blue tie tomorrow. But only cos I feel like it, nothing to do with Democrats or Rednecks and their consequent results in the polls.
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It all boggles down to who the Illuminati (THEY HAVE THE EYE OF PROVIDENCE ON THEIR MONIES LOL!!!) endorse. c:
also admin ban plz trol politiks
Seriously though, USA cannot into non-stereotyping, as usual the Gun Toting Murderous Rapist Conservative Rednecks vs Crying Heart Hippie Commie Liberal Commando of Freedom is all a media spectacle to get high poll frequencies rolling and nothing will really change, especially considering that just now THE AMERIKA ))) is clawing it's way out of the financial crisis (HEY YOU KNOW WHAT HELPS? SELLING EXCESS FIREARMS TO AFRICAN NATIONS TORN APART BY CIVIL WARS (>-.-)>$$$$$<(-.-<) ) and they won't risk even a slight destabilisation. AFAIK Obama ain't too hot lately but he still has the HOPE thing somewhat going for him and i doubt dubya's republican reign will be soon forgotten so there you go, it's gonna be a show of recycling the same faces on teh screen and play-pretend that anyone gives a shit. Hogwash.
ctrl + f, search for skull, not found, you didn't pun me, not relevant reading, kthxbye.
Sorry, to long for me
omg omg omg, politics on e- forum + you not even American, wtf wtf wtf
p.s. I just commented cause of what you said on irc about -5
Shady can you add a little resume somewhere too?
i don't wanna read it cause politics for me is "movies about dieing dinosaurs" Speaking of that .. i like more those documentaries on Discovery about dinos .. last ones are quite impressive.. you can see the modern era of graphics embeded in your HD tv. And the 3d tvs i dont think they are good now rly .. maybe in about 100 years if there will be at least 1 human left on this earth .. cause till then probably something have to happen to us .. if you see the ones that rule the world today ... ah politics again, you see ? Dinosaurs what've told ya about?
I'll push this button
and close the T.V.
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Skully, cmt n1!
sNeAkY or alienM nowhere here so, same answer by me...
I think this midterm was just a symptom of the same disease HST saw, nine years ago during the Bush-Gore elections, and the very same malaise that caused him to descend into despair in 2004 during the Bush-Kerry elections. This is what drove Dr. Thompson to suicide: there is no hope for this nation. Mavericks like Paine, Jefferson, Hancock and Adams would be laughed out of Washington in this day and age (if not ostracized and sent to prison - which happened to Paine in his home of England before he came to the Colonies to try his hand at a new world) and those whose modern-day philosophies might be said to somewhat resemble, in their own ham-fisted... albeit slightly dumbed-down ways... the philosophies of old. But I digress.
This midterm was so lackluster, so unenthusiastic, so... pedestrian. In so many ways. What we have to consider is not what the nature of American politics might be but instead why we should even care when, in the current socio-political climate of our world, people don't even care about politics. The replies to this thread are proof enough that most people are so far-removed from the political arena that the world of government doesn't seem to affect them all that much.
Is the average Joe apathetic towards politics because the specifics of government don't affect him, or do the specifics of government not affect the average Joe because he remains apathetic towards politics? This is a question of our era, one that deserves consideration before the next generation of lackeys and ultra-privledges socialites begins to take control of the seats of power in the UN and beyond, because so long as the "common man" remains ignorant of the machinery of politics...
politics will remain firmly beyond his grasp, and thus the power to shape and forge the future of his nation, whatever it may be, will be seized by those who were simply in the right place at the right time.
Are we ignorant of politics because the government is a power beyond our control, or is the government a power beyond our control because we remain ignorant of politics?
Ooooh shiiiiit, should have acknowledged it. WP Necro, WP.
WP indeed.... ha
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ps. actually both Necro's and Tem's posts are one hell of a read, i would encourage anyone with the attention span bigger than that necessary to count to one to read them carefully. :salute:
pps. While i agree with you, Matt, on most points, you were the first US citizen to reply to this thread. Can't blame foreigners to be detached from and disinterested with the USA political scene. People like Wonko or Joey would probably be able to provide an elaborate and insightful post on the subject at hand.
ppps. Also, i am quite shocked that the democrats did so poorly. They got decimated. This can't be good for The Amerika ))), especially since from what i've seen, Obama is already switching into the apologist Clinton/Nixon-esque rhethoric mode (let's work together, we've opened channels of communications, BLAh blah blah). The good people of US of A have a really short memory.
Hi Matthew I'm real happy for you and Ima let you finish, but the same Journal with same content (!) brought over one hundred responses on ESR C: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1982256
The real conclusion is that the nice people of eksessiwe cannot keep their eyes on a piece of text longer than 3 lines without drooling all over the keyboard, forcing their PC to short curcuit, and you only needed to check this place out once in a while to come to that (and wouldn't need to write 7 paragraphs nitpicking at US Politics history of the last 50 years while I'm at it c: )
Hats off to you Sir for being the first to acknowledge the Hunter S. Thompson-esque influence of this article. I was going for it with the title, the feel for politics, metaphors (i wanted to use "mad beasts" there too but it could not fit within the current structure) and the Nixon-put downs. 110 replies before yours and still no1 paid attention to that. Heh.
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