[gmku]

Christ, I am. This is going to be a long year. More accurately, I'm tired of the news coverage. It's too much.

I hate feeling this way because I like to think of myself as an informed and interested voter. But fuck this is boring the shit out of me.

[gmku]

Ha ha ha.

[sonicl]

You think you've got it bad? We have massive coverage of the US elections and we're not even the US!

[gmku]

Wot?! What is that about, mate?

[sonicl]

Dunno geezer.

But I suppose the US elections are important to us in the UK, seeing as they're the election for the next person to whom our prime minister is going to toady.

[RdTv]

Don't blame a superior new network (BBC) on the U.S.' circle jerk of a political frenzy. hahah

[gmku]

Geezer!

I insist we cease with the age-ism.

Bad form, old chap.

[gmku]

Originally Posted by sonicl

Dunno geezer.

But I suppose the US elections are important to us in the UK, seeing as they're the election for the next person to whom our prime minister is going to toady.

It could also be that there's just not that much other news of y'all's own to cover on an island.

[sonicl]

Originally Posted by gmku

Geezer!

I insist we cease with the age-ism.

Bad form, old chap.

There's nothing ageist about geezer. Old geezer, yes, but not just geezer. Look at Geezer Butler, he never minded being called geezer when he wasn't old. And he was in Black Sabbath.

Originally Posted by gmku

It could also be that there's just not that much other news of y'all's own to cover on an island.

I resent that remark! We have news. Cats stuck up trees, old ladies losing slippers...

[RdTv]

To all the presidential hopefuls:

 

(I'm actually quite aware of most of the candidates educational levels and reasoning ability,but, the graphic was really too warm and fuzzy not to post.)

[gmku]

Well, it's a pretty meaningless word, but if you feel like throwing it around, hey, I can respeck that. Jerk.

[pbradley]

And I still don't have any cable/television. Last of the election I heard my parents have started supporting Edwards and I'm still favoring Obama. However, I don't feel uninformed as I'm a regular wikipedia crawler and the online encyclopedia is perfect for high-traffic information such as political positions.

[Kloriel]

election campaigns & coverage are/is like the NFL for people with diabetes

[m1rr0r dash]

i will be in two weeks after i vote in the florida primary.

[Cantankerous]

it doesnt affect me because
a. i dont pay any attn whatsoever to coverage etc
b. i am so politically apathetic (our situation can't really get any worse) that i don't really give a fuck who becomes president

[phoenix]

I cant even escape it and I dont think I could live any further away.

It makes our first five pages weekly.

[Kloriel]

Originally Posted by pbradley

I heard my parents have started supporting Edwards and I'm still favoring Obama.

I thought Edwards did well in the Nevada thing. And watching that gave me a really really good idea for a political cartoon. Unfortunately I cannot draw. I'd use stick figures, but no, I won't. Maybe I'll try and contact someone in the Edwards campaign and tell them.

[m1rr0r dash]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

it doesnt affect me because
a. i dont pay any attn whatsoever to coverage etc
b. i am so politically apathetic (our situation can't really get any worse) that i don't really give a fuck who becomes president

1) apathy got us where we are.

2) it could get worse.

[Cantankerous]

1) i don't care
2) i don't care

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by gmku

Christ, I am. This is going to be a long year. More accurately, I'm tired of the news coverage. It's too much.

I hate feeling this way because I like to think of myself as an informed and interested voter. But fuck this is boring the shit out of me.

it is because you are informed and interested that you have become tired, simply because the more you examine the facade, the more it reveals itself to be so. myself, I am a monarchist. representative democracy is an illusion, and once you become honest with yourself and accept the farce, then you can make more progressive moves in your own life for yourself. point to me a true democracy, that is a democratic success? it does not exist, its like the holy grail. it never worked back in greece, and that is why it was replaced, and supposedly resurrected in this time, and yet it does not work, because it does not actually exist. I am not here to offer the solution, just to point out the shit on the rhetorical shoe of our society. The solution gets exponentially more complicated, ever since the world population broke one billion, and as it presently approached seven billion (put that in prespective, there have been about seven billion dead folk in the past 300,000 years of our history, and so counting them and us today there have been as many humans on earth as there are years in the universe) I say giving into the illusion is the failure, because true democracy lies in the hands of the people. In the 1960s progressive change didn't come about in the united states because of well elected leadership, quite the contrary. the badly chosen leadership reacted to the violence on the US streets, burning in the hearts of Americans outraged and dissillusioned with the state of America at the time. The power does in fact lie in the people, but democracy is willingly giving that up to a representative, and accepting his own failures as inevitable, but at the same time saying 'oh well' because you supposedly tried by voting to begin with. look at the history of any monarchy, and you will not find blind tyranny, but in fact leadership which was highly subjective the the whims of the people, who could have their heads at the slightest outrages, even in feudal Ethiopia, where today democracy is being introduced for the first time in three thousand years, and it very contrary to the customs of the people, who do not understand the concept, because it truly makes no sense. the reason why we have a 'representative democracy' to begin with is because both the people and the system mutually accept that it is impossible to have an actual democracy in a world of millions and billions of people. representatives are necessary. however, supposedly democratic politics make it a popularity contest, and personal political battles between politicians begging for power. at least under monarchies, the representative of the people, the leadership did not necessarily have to compete for popularity and could instead focus on actual needs and interests of the community, because a happy community is a happy empire, and a hungry mob is an angry mob.