3.15: "Democracy in America"
Summary: Mayoral incumbent Holling is stung by the news that he has a formidable opponent, old friend Edna Hancock, who's got a bee in her bonnet over a promise he never kept. The election also finds Shelly testing the aphrodisiac of power, Chris waxing patriotic, Ed anticipating his first time voting, and Joel and Maggie arguing party politics.
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Awwww, yay! There are still inspiring civic politics and events somewhere in the nation!
There was a little bunting! And there was definitely a nice old lady manning a handmade cardboard ballot box. And there was fighting over whether art installations or sidewalk repairs were more important.
Awwwww!
Shake your cane! That'll scare 'em!
*shakes* *slips* *breaks hip*
Hah, she looks and sounds just like my boss (including the misanthropy), so I love her even on top of her awesomesauce hermitism. I would so vote for her!
Tehehehehehe!
Once again, Shelley makes me want to hurl! Yeah, even some flavor of election cheerleading would have been less awful.
Oh, Shelly. There was potential, but they just didn't do right by her.
It's A PARKING SPACE. In ALASKA. Alaska is ONE BIG PARKING LOT! Well, maybe it was a shoveled space...
I'm pretty sure the shoveling is key.
I can see Joel as being obstinate enough to be a New York Republican, especially since he's trying so hard to be a part of the conservative-doctor-golfer-rich-Jew clique.
Yeah, there's that. I can see him being a Republican up until the party got hijacked by the Tea Party, at which point even some conservative columnists (Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Buckley, and perhaps some others?) came out for Obama. But he'd still vote GOP for local elections, probably.
And "conservative" is pretty much Joel in a nutshell, don't you think?
In the Edmund Burke sense of respect for tradition and institution? Definitely. (Haha, he has a very impassioned speech about the sanctity of the postal service coming up soon.)
(Also a strong suit of his: denial.)
Aww.
After careful consideration of his admission of dirtying elections!
THIS is the man we want helping to run our election!
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Just nowhere near the presidential race! I think part of the greatness of the recent elections here was that we were voting directly on local issues, and not on some crooked political figure who wanted power. Even the local "pick the least crooked crook" race was a bit sad in comparison.
*shakes* *slips* *breaks hip*
Now you can shake your walker!
I can see him being a Republican up until the party got hijacked by the Tea Party
Hahaha, I can see him being contrary enough to be all, "But the Tea Party is just misunderstood!"
In the Edmund Burke sense of respect for tradition and institution? Definitely.
So much!
(Haha, he has a very impassioned speech about the sanctity of the postal service coming up soon.)
Another one??
THIS is the man we want helping to run our election!
He knows dirty politics when he sees it! Possibly after causing it!
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Ahhh, yes. That probably does help. If only we weren't a two-party state, and the parties didn't have to cater to both the fringes and the center, leaving no one happy with any one candidate...
Hahaha, I can see him being contrary enough to be all, "But the Tea Party is just misunderstood!"
Surely even Joel would realize their batshittery, though!
Another one??
Was there one already? The episode I'm thinking of actually includes no fewer than four instances of Joel pontificating on the sanctity of the US Mail.
He knows dirty politics when he sees it! Possibly after causing it!
First-hand experience!
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