no, i mean seriously, who voted in california? what the hell?
is there any way that manhattan can secede from the rest of the united states, cos i’m not sure if i want to share tax-revenue with people who could vote for bush and/or schwarzennegger.
my theory is that people are so consumed with their own emotional and personal issues that they can’t see politics as having any sort of broad ramifications beyond the personal and symbolic.
i.e ‘i don’t like that democrat guy so i’m gonna vote for the republican.’
i mean, who cares who americans like?
what about the idea of voting for the person who might actually be the most qualified for the job?
it’s now official: americans have lost the plot.
narcissism and pernicious self-involvement have replaced reason and logic as the motivating factors behind most peoples decision making process.
and that sucks. it would suck less if america were some tiny little country with no global influence or importance, but we are, ostensibly, the leaders of the free world.
but how can the rest of the world respect us when we treat our own electoral process like it’s a bad soap opera?
is there someone in america who can finally stand up and lead and say, ‘i’m sorry, but america has lost the plot and we need to somehow stop being violent and crazy and irrational.’?
to quote myself from earlier in this update:
what the hell?
what the hell is going on in my country?
-moby