Once again we find ourselves deep in election year bullshit. No, not the typical every year bullshit as in politicians fucking over the average person and pretending they didn't do it. Not to be confused with some Lifetime Network movie about date rape at a frat house kegger. Nope, we are in the Presidential Election bullshit. Once again our country has been given the chance to pretend it is a democracy rather then a Republic. To pretend that we are actually getting a say in how our nation is run. We will get the attack ads, the outright false vote for me ads and we will get the groups putting out all sorts of crap ads well outside the control of our election rules thanks to the US Supreme Court. A Supreme Court nominated by and approved by the very politicians that they ruled in favor on when it comes to further perverting our election system with greed.
Now you have to admit that our stunningly ineffective two party system and the primary system is a bit like Speed Dating. We are all a bunch of blonde women with daddy and self esteem issues after a few drinks. We aren't exactly super excited about any of the potential candidates. Regardless after a rather short period of time of being given nothing but sound bites, controlled information and a regimented schedule we are expected to choose one of those people to take us home and fuck the shit out of us for the next four damn years. Not sure if the four years is ironic or intentional anymore given that is also likely the average length of a marriage in the US currently. We just hope the motherfucker doesn't leave us with some sort of disease like an unwarranted war or new government program.
Recently I saw an article about the percentage of time that the candidate who raised the most money (only counting their direct contributions and not outside groups) ended up winning the election. It was actually a very surprising amount of time. Surprising enough that it makes our system seem less like a psuedo democracy and more like we are no more then employees of a massive multi-national corporation. We don't elect a President as much as the corporations acting as a Board of Directors appoints a CEO that we all pretend to agree on. Much like in large corporations today the President/CEO is not required to take any responsibility for the success or failures of the company. The CEO is there as a figure head for the Board of Directors. They announce the decisions of the Board of Directors and lavish pay and praise is put upon all those in charge even as the entire thing is crashing to the ground like the housing market. Yep, United States of Enron.
Remember vote early, vote often and don't blame anyone but yourselves. They say people in large groups can change the world. In our case every four years we make a change but it certainly isn't progress. You all talk about 'change and making a statement". You want to make a "statement" then go down to the voting booths and take a large odor rich dump in the fucking voting booths. I'm serious, go down there, show them you are registered to vote, take a step into that booth and shit on the electoral system in America in a nice and blunt literal sense. Shit on it the way it has shit on us taxpayers for decades. There has been an Arab Spring now let there be an American Fall. I hope that gets some tractions and takes off faster then the Occupy movement. We don't need flashy commercials or cool slogans. Fuck it, if you need a good slogan then call it Take A Dump for True Democracy Day. Fuck yes, I gave a shit and I did it at the ballot box, how about you?