Archive for October 27th, 2008
“Gentlemen, if we do not hang together, then we shall surely hang apart.”
That was Ben Franklin, some 300 years ago, give or take some change. Still pretty apt today. The man was wise, verily.
I’m putting a moratorium on any political posts on my blog at least until after Election Day, possibly until after Inauguration Day. I seriously can’t handle the misinformation, the misrepresentation, the whining, the shit-talking, the lies, damn lies, and statistics, and just the general idiocy and inanity of both sides.
I think law school has made me more prone to considering both sides of something, and I can see the merit in the general arguments from both sides. You can only get to that nougaty center when you drill down past all the bullshit rhetoric and generalized asshattery/dicketry of the supporters. And I’m seriously tired of it. Stop putting up tweets about it, stop putting up facebook statuses about it, just stop! Please. We don’t care for whom you’re voting, or why. We just don’t. Just go vote and shut up.
Everything about this election has been divisive and severing. There needs to be bipartisan commitment to fixing things, not petty squabbling among factions. This annoys me to no end.
Phew. I feel better now, in some small way.
