Land of Oz

Nov. 4

In many ways, it's pretty amazing that the USofA manages to stumble along seeing how we are stuck what happens every four years on November 4. Honestly, how many people today actually know enough to make an educated guess about which candidate to vote for? Have you read any of the comment blogs that accompany many of the news stories about the election? The amount of misinformation is mind-boggling. And have you noticed how much of it IS ALWAYS IN CAPS? As if capital letters will make it true. I normally don't even try to read comments that have all those capital letters.

I'm pretty well-read and not a total moron, but I really haven't a clue about which candidate is truly best for the nation. I'm going to make my best guess in a couple of hours, but what is it that makes me responsible enough to choose the leader for this country? I try to look at everything and toss whatever seems to be on either extreme. Both Obama and McCain have published or uttered their share of bullshit and lies. What I did was pick a couple of important topics and try to figure out which one of the liars will best support it.

Do I think my vote makes a difference? Not really. If after work, I was to stop at Macdonald's instead of the polls, I don't think anything would be politically different tomorrow morning. At least not for the president. My vote isn't even for him. It's for somebody, who I don't know, who may or may not cast his vote for the person I think I'm voting for. How can you even be sure your vote is physically counted? That machine I slip my ballot into could just as well count my vote towards the socialist party for all I know.

Someone, I forget who, once said, "the power isn't with the voters, it's with the vote counters."

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