God help me in this time of trouble...
Here's the scenario:
- You are presented with a blue-clothed table on which sit three bowls
- Each bowl is filled with shit
- Every bowl has a different type of shit, each with its own undesirable characteristic at the forefront: one has a horrific smell, another steams, the third has an appearance that makes you physically sick just looking at it
- A lunch lady stands behind the table, soup ladle in hand
- She offers you the choice of which of the three bowls of shit you would like
- ... and, should you abstain, one will be chosen WITHOUT your consent and then force-fed to you for lunch
- In the end, the lunch lady will say that all this was "for your own good."
Now, let us look at the current presidential election, and tell me if there is ANY difference between this scenario and current events. I've been listening to people for EIGHT FRAKKING YEARS keep saying, "I don't like Bush; I don't like Bush." That's fine. But, when you get down to it, in BOTH of the elections he ran in, he was actually the LESS terrifying of the two main choices. (Don't even TRY to back off from that one. Gore and Kerry's post-election actions - both political and otherwise - PROVE my point.) We all knew he was going to cheat us, especially the second time around, and so he was - in a sick sort of way - a known quantity; ergo, he was the logical choice. Now, we have a set of choices that are so terrifying, its hard to tell which is better than which. AND!!! You must realize that THIS is the best set of candidates our political system can come up with. That, more than anything, scares the living shit out of me.
- You are presented with a blue-clothed table on which sit three bowls
- Each bowl is filled with shit
- Every bowl has a different type of shit, each with its own undesirable characteristic at the forefront: one has a horrific smell, another steams, the third has an appearance that makes you physically sick just looking at it
- A lunch lady stands behind the table, soup ladle in hand
- She offers you the choice of which of the three bowls of shit you would like
- ... and, should you abstain, one will be chosen WITHOUT your consent and then force-fed to you for lunch
- In the end, the lunch lady will say that all this was "for your own good."
Now, let us look at the current presidential election, and tell me if there is ANY difference between this scenario and current events. I've been listening to people for EIGHT FRAKKING YEARS keep saying, "I don't like Bush; I don't like Bush." That's fine. But, when you get down to it, in BOTH of the elections he ran in, he was actually the LESS terrifying of the two main choices. (Don't even TRY to back off from that one. Gore and Kerry's post-election actions - both political and otherwise - PROVE my point.) We all knew he was going to cheat us, especially the second time around, and so he was - in a sick sort of way - a known quantity; ergo, he was the logical choice. Now, we have a set of choices that are so terrifying, its hard to tell which is better than which. AND!!! You must realize that THIS is the best set of candidates our political system can come up with. That, more than anything, scares the living shit out of me.