Thursday, April 5, 2012

Does this election even matter?

The election in November is getting hyped and sold more than most products on the market.  To be honest, Obama is not as progressive/liberal/socialist as the right wing pundits portray him.  He is rather conservative actually.  His political compass is similar to George Herbert Walker Bush.  He is right of center on a lot of issues, especially social issues, especially those concerning the LGBT community.

Mitt Romney actually did in Massachusetts almost every single thing Obama proposed on the federal level.  He flip flops so often, Heisenberg would have to do a special study on him.  Does anyone believe he would actually do anything different than the president who succeeded in taking out Osama Bin Ladin when it comes to foreign policy?

The other alternatives get worse.  Rick Santorum has the same doctrine for political compass as the Holy See, or maybe the College of Cardinals.  Rick Santorum is evidence that it was a mistake to restore diplomatic relations with the Vatican.  If he actually had more than a Seahawks winning the Super Bowl chance of actually gaining the Oval Office, he would turn the US over to Canon law (just like Sharia law, but out of the Vatican rather than from the Imams out of the Middle East).  That would include forcing Jewish people to wear yellow stars and women who owned property would be burned at the stake.  His mentality is stuck pre-1215 when that minor inconvenience known as the Magna Carta got signed ending Santorum's utopia.

Newt Gingrich, unless your memory fails to go back before 1994, is an obvious lol.  He couldn't win a good deal with Clinton during his time as Speaker of the House.  What makes you think he would be able to not get the US fucked over by Russia and China?  Might have brains, but his inability to use discretion --- just no.

Ron Paul, a better choice possibly.  We won't see him in the White House.

Basically Romney or Obama?  Time to emigrate to the UK.

Update: 2019

With Brexit, and Trump and obvious Russian stirring of the shit pot we call our sorry excuse of a voting system, things went from bad in 2012 to orders of magnitude worse.

We went from Obama, a pragmatic rightish centrist to Trump, a solipsist criminal without a shred of conscience or humanity in him.  With Obama, our objections were about the degree of progress.  With Trump, human survival is possibly going to go bye-bye with an extinction event either by a wag the dog nuclear war or simple acceleration of climate change.

Unless Trump is brought to heel forcefully in a coerced manner (since he never does what is right voluntarily), there really may not be an election in 2020.  President-for-life Trump ruling over the ashes of a once wonderful nation.

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