My Thoughts On The Election
Yeah, I know. Mr. "I Don't Believe In Voting" is going to talk about the election. Skip if my lack of civic pride offends you.
As is well known, I don't believe the system works. I describe the voting process as a chess board. Half the pieces are blue, and half the pieces are red. Voters get to move their pieces around. Sometimes red takes blue, sometimes blue takes red. It's all very exciting as long as you believe that those red pieces and blue pieces are making strides in one way or another. But the secret twist ending... and not the simple "all the pieces are really the same colour" ending, that's far too Twilight Zone... the twist is the non-twist that this chess game is in fact a chess game. Just something to occupy the minds of the masses. They play a game while the real powers do whatever it is they do in the real world.
So coming out of that being my belief system, I'm still filled with a beautiful hope because Barack Obama has won the election. But not because I think the government will turn for the better because of him (it will or it won't; the person in office has no bearing on where this beast meanders). I hope that people from middle America, my homeland, will look up in a few years and say "hey, that guy's not white, and he seems to be okay. Maybe other people who aren't white are okay too." That's the win I see coming out of this election.
As is well known, I don't believe the system works. I describe the voting process as a chess board. Half the pieces are blue, and half the pieces are red. Voters get to move their pieces around. Sometimes red takes blue, sometimes blue takes red. It's all very exciting as long as you believe that those red pieces and blue pieces are making strides in one way or another. But the secret twist ending... and not the simple "all the pieces are really the same colour" ending, that's far too Twilight Zone... the twist is the non-twist that this chess game is in fact a chess game. Just something to occupy the minds of the masses. They play a game while the real powers do whatever it is they do in the real world.
So coming out of that being my belief system, I'm still filled with a beautiful hope because Barack Obama has won the election. But not because I think the government will turn for the better because of him (it will or it won't; the person in office has no bearing on where this beast meanders). I hope that people from middle America, my homeland, will look up in a few years and say "hey, that guy's not white, and he seems to be okay. Maybe other people who aren't white are okay too." That's the win I see coming out of this election.