Election Day Is Finally Here: Tonight Is Going to Suck No Matter What
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/election-day-is-finally-here-tonight-is-going-to-suck-no-matter-what-20121106
As usual, Matt is entertaining and has an excellent point. Can any rational person (are there any rational people left?) think that either candidate is going to dramatically change the way things are done in the US? Even when the Dems had a lock on the House and Senate and Obama in the White House for two full years they couldn’t get a damn thing done. In the unlikely event (based on my reading of poll analysis) that the GOP wins the Senate and Romney gets the win, can anyone seriously think that there will be wholesale changes to the way things are done? Wall Street will continue to get favorable treatment, the poor will continue to be poor and, almost certainly, the middle class will continue to be eroded and the rich will get richer. Except in the highly unlikely scenario that a GOP sweep leads to extreme austerity measures (they talk a ‘good’ story but I clearly remember how ‘austere’ Bush Jr. was when he was in office, _with_, btw, GOP control of the House and Senate for several years), the economy will continue its gradual climb (we are deleveraging as a nation (well, not at the top, but such is life) and that necessitates a long and slow recovery, anything faster means a shorter window before the next collapse) things will gradually get better for the majority of the nation and we will go to war with Iran.
This election is _not_ a choice between good and evil (in my mind it is a choice between evils, but ‘evil’ is relative, I am not expecting anyone to roast in hell based on the outcome of this (or any other) election), it is a choice between incremental shifts on the steering wheel of the Titanic. Yes, the ship could have avoided the ice berg with tiny course changes, if done soon enough, but had the ship been built just a wee bit better it wouldn’t have sunk. Our economy (on the whole) is very well built and quite robust, even the massive shock of the housing market crash wasn’t enough to bring us down. We have lots of ‘water tight compartments’ and are in the process of pumping them out and will soon pick up speed and be on our way no matter who wins. I think more people need to understand this.
This country really needs a hug!
BTW, in case anyone cares, I think I will be pulling the lever for Jill Stein, that is, if I get off my lazy ass and actually vote. Yes the Greens are totally unrealistic, but I think I prefer their unrealism to the other candidates (including the two front runners).
