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Hillary won Pennsylvania tonight. Which, from what the people who know these things have said, make the race viable again.
Hooray. More time spent on things I don't care about.
I'll just come out and say it. I don't care about the election. I don't care about the candidates. And, to be honest, I don't care about the system anymore. It's not a red vs. blue thing. It's not a liberal vs. conservative thing. I've come to this realization lately. The system is broken beyond repair. So whomever wins, whether it's Hillary, Obama, McCain, or Burt Reynolds, is just perpetuating the same BS that we've been force-fed since...well...as long as I can remember.
For those of you who care to expand your historical knowledge, I recommend the book Everything You Know Is Wrong, edited by Russ Kick. It's quite the eye opener. Now granted, I've always loved to read and learn about the other side of things. History, sports, life in general. Because as we all know, history is written by the winners. But I'd like to know what the losers had to say.
We're all playing with a stacked deck. The machine, as Abby Hoffman so eloquently put it, moves on regardless of who's in charge. Parties no longer matter. Ideals no longer matter. Too much is at stake, too many people have a vested interest in things staying as-is. Do you know that many large corporations pay little or no taxes? That the "activist" shareholders of Washington Mutual had to fight to have the recent sub-prime write downs factored into the executive bonuses? Or that Merrill Lynch paid out more in bonuses ($37 billion) than they did in profits last year, even when they had to adjust down billions upon billions of bad debt? What's wrong with this picture? And why aren't people upset?
More people care about abortion than they do about healthcare. About immigration than government spending. About the price of fuel than the fractured education system.
I know I sound bitter and angry about the whole thing. You'd be right. But the thing that I'm most upset about? That I'm in the minority.
Hooray. More time spent on things I don't care about.
I'll just come out and say it. I don't care about the election. I don't care about the candidates. And, to be honest, I don't care about the system anymore. It's not a red vs. blue thing. It's not a liberal vs. conservative thing. I've come to this realization lately. The system is broken beyond repair. So whomever wins, whether it's Hillary, Obama, McCain, or Burt Reynolds, is just perpetuating the same BS that we've been force-fed since...well...as long as I can remember.
For those of you who care to expand your historical knowledge, I recommend the book Everything You Know Is Wrong, edited by Russ Kick. It's quite the eye opener. Now granted, I've always loved to read and learn about the other side of things. History, sports, life in general. Because as we all know, history is written by the winners. But I'd like to know what the losers had to say.
We're all playing with a stacked deck. The machine, as Abby Hoffman so eloquently put it, moves on regardless of who's in charge. Parties no longer matter. Ideals no longer matter. Too much is at stake, too many people have a vested interest in things staying as-is. Do you know that many large corporations pay little or no taxes? That the "activist" shareholders of Washington Mutual had to fight to have the recent sub-prime write downs factored into the executive bonuses? Or that Merrill Lynch paid out more in bonuses ($37 billion) than they did in profits last year, even when they had to adjust down billions upon billions of bad debt? What's wrong with this picture? And why aren't people upset?
More people care about abortion than they do about healthcare. About immigration than government spending. About the price of fuel than the fractured education system.
I know I sound bitter and angry about the whole thing. You'd be right. But the thing that I'm most upset about? That I'm in the minority.
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