Is that a shrub in your pocket...
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Evil of Two Lessers
I mostly agree with the point that if you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still get something evil, except that I think it kind of makes a difference just how evil the greater evil is, and also the aggregate evil (in isolation, these people are bad enough, but lump 'em together and give them power, and the next thing you know they're invading Poland and building concentration camps). This bunch running the show right now are truly evil, I think, and their enablers have no shame, and no sense of what's right. We need some Mugwumps. I have no illusions that if the Democrats control one or both Houses of Congress, then suddenly things will all be OK again, but I think John Conyers as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is more than enough to motivation to hope that the Democrats take the House. I sure hope our Bush rubber stamp has a rude awakening on November 7th.
After that, well, I don't know. I've gone out and hooted and hollered at these weekend afternoon protests, and while it feels good to be around like-minded people (you start to wonder if you’re the one that's nuts after a while), and while I think it's important to try and show the rest of the world that, hey, we're not all on board with the master plan here, I can't help but wonder if it really does any good. The thugs running the show leave town for the weekend, and the media barely mentions any of it, and then it's back to work or school or whatever on Monday morning. The only way to really get their attention is to fill the streets and not leave. Disrupt their precious commerce. Of course, then you're also screwing over the little folks who are just trying to go to work and feed their families. It's very sad, and disheartening, and, well, tiring. And then the US - which at least used to pretend e to stand for something (even it never quite lived up to it) - makes it legal to haul you away in the middle of the night, and lock you up and torture you forever.
Being a dirty, godless heathen, I wonder how long it’ll be before they come and take me away. I started out as a Catholic, but it didn’t really take. In fact, I was even married by a "fallen" Catholic priest (who quit the church to marry a nun). I'm pretty sure it's eternal damnation for me (so maybe some time being tortured in the gulag at Gitmo will help prepare me for hell). Hey, I knew there was a bright side to all this.
