It would be completely hypocritical of me to suggest that I have no played some part in the continuuing barrage of anti-Bush anti-Kerry smut that is circulating around JU. However, in the process I'm getting closer and closer to my boiling point. I suppose this happens nearly every election as eventually, many people throw their hands up into the air to give up, stop listening, and recall how nothing really changed last time around so why bother this time.
I've even defended the excuses that many use not to vote. I agreed that it would be irresponsible for those who don't inform themselves to vote. (but aside from the argument that it's irresponsible enough not to inform yourself) At this rate is anyone really "informed?" Each side goes back and forth, and it's like watching a tennis match serving the lies and half-truths, and we never are really trying to figure out who actually is honest, just who lied the most? This is not a fact finding process, just like our judicial system. It's not about who is lying, it's about who is getting caught.
I haven't felt to guilty about abstaining from keeping up with a majority of the bantor. Mostly because I have no intention of voting for either side of the dichotomy, and also because I'm losing nearly all patience with this process. Yes, I would tend to side with Kerry, but not because of who he is or the moral superiority of the DFL.
I'm stubborn because I'm committed to thinking there must be a better way. So I'm not apathetic. Those who are voting for Kerry and Bush because they don't believe the candidate they truly want to vote for will ever be elected are experiencing true apathy. They think their votes really don't matter, and there's no hope so why fight it? I'm coming from the mentality that they're right....if they don't vote for those who they'd much rather see elected than they probably are not going to be elected.
No, I'm not suggesting to anyone other than a republican or democrat has much of chance in the presidential election right now...But whoever one is elected don't blame me, I didn't vote for either.
Suspeckted
PS - my Grandma and Grandpa just got done lecturing me about how I shouldn't throw my vote away before I finished my last sentence.
