Post-election-day bullspunk

[feren]

You know, I don't expect everyone to be happy about the results, but I do expect people to buckle down and cope.

Waaah, the Republicans are in power. Waaaah! It's a conspiracy! Waaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaah, I should move to Canada!

Yes, yes you should. Please move to Canada. Move there and spare me your noise.

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[yakko.livejournal.com]

Maybe that IS their "coping mechanism."

I think it sucks, truthfully. I mean, how do you cope constructively with this? "Gee, I voted against you, but your asstastic presence disgraces me still. Won't you just hurry up and die?" :o)

[feren.livejournal.com]

[I mean, how do you cope constructively with this?]

1. If you don't like the decisions they're making, tell them. A polite, well-written letter is one of the most powerful things a voter can use to make his or her opinion known to their representative. One party is not inherently against the other, they just have a different way of looking at things. Just because the party line isn't your own doesn't mean you can't sway your representative.
   
2. Use this to get shit in order for the next election. One of two things occured here: People decided they agreed more with the Republicans than they did the Democrats (or anyone else) or the Republicans came out and voted and simply overwhelmed the Democrats by turning up at the polls. Somehow I really doubt the former is at fault, so that tells me that Democrats simply didn't exercise their power. Rectify this.
   
3. Organize car pools to the elections.
   
4. Put up signs.
   
5. Attend rallies.
   
6. Donate.
   
7. Volunteer your time to the campaign to get your party's word out.
   

Exercise your strength as a voter in the next election and while doing so make people aware of the issues, the candidates and their own strength so that they vote too. It cascades.

I could go on, but it's not my problem. Above all I'm making the point that I'm fucking tired of hearing people bitch, and I'm particulary sick of the old whinge about moving to Canada. It's tired and it's lamer than a 34-year-old nag with founder standing in the rain. It's like listening to one kid threatening another with "Give me your candy money or I'll... I'll... I'll do something you won't like!" As a threat or a promise it has absolutely no force to it -- it's just something people say when they can't come up with anything really meaningful to say when they're faced with the fact their team lost, pure and simple.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say "team" at the end there. Politics resembles nothing so much as sports these days.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Complete with the riots and drunks urinating in sinks?

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah!