So which team are you playing for? What position are you playing? What do I mean by all of this? Politics! The ultimate team sport. The big game comes around every four years with a few smaller games played in between. So who do you play for? Democrats? Republicans? Libertarians? Green Party? We all have a team, whether you like it or not you have a team. Even so called independents choose sides and have a tendency to lean more one way than the other and in cases cases a lot more . Sometimes to the point that you can't even really tell they don't have a team.
So here is the question I ask of you, how do you choose your team? Is it really based on our morals? Whats good for the rest of the country? What's best for us personally? Do you base it on what team you grew up "cheering for" as your parents diligently voted for their respective squads? Do you base it on what mainstream media tells us, whether it be ultra right wing Fox, ultra left wing
MSNBC, or the buffet table of all CNN? Print news?
Bloggers?
candidates themselves, who by the way have been lying to get their votes since dare I say our founding fathers. Do you vote based on how much money they have? How many houses they have?What their sex is? Their sexual orientation? Their religion? Their race? If you answered yes to any of those questions other than the first two (yourself, family, or country), then save gas and don't go vote. Not only will your carbon footprint be smaller, but so to will your idiot footprint.
I remember sitting in a classroom four years ago with Amy, my roomate at the time, listening to the ditziest girls talk about John Kerry. They could only tell you though to vote for him. They couldn't tell you the reasons to vote for him, what he stood for, or anything the man had done previous to running for president. What could they tell you though? He was better than Bush? No matter your personal opinion if you can not seperate whats wrong with one candidate fromt he other, again keep your idiot footprint small by not voting. Yes you have every right to vote, it's in the constitution, but how can you honestly feel good about doing your "civic duty" if you have no clue as to whats going on. It would be like me going in and judging ice skating, yes I knowwhat a triple toe loop is, but could i distinguish it from a double toe loop enough to make a concious decision on scoring the winter olympics? Nah, but what the hell I'll do it anyway! I'm american so I'm sure the American skaters are doing just a fine job and even though they have fallen, I believe they are still doing an excellent job. I know some of you won't get the analogy of team sports, and again smaller carbon footprint, smaller idiot footprint, for the love of god, please.
So why am I writing this? I have seen way too many people, heard to many people, and witnessing too many people, being idiots over this political stuff and its just team sports related.
Without getting into a much deeper rant about, how impeechments are stupid, by the way when was the last time we had a President in office that someone didn't want to impeech? Check the person you support see how they stretch the truth for your votes. They all do, from the smallest to the largest politicians. It's their job. The one lesson I have learned over the last four years is voting for the lesser of two evils, is still voting for evil.
Wanna check facts? Look here
http://www.factcheck.org/ and dont be a douche and just look at what your opposing party has messed up on. Take some initiative and look up where you candidate has fucked up. If not your destined to leave an idiot footprint for the next four years.
