{"id":535,"date":"2004-10-07T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T19:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T22:23:33","slug":"boredom-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/boredom-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Boredom and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Over the past month, I started a few posts, all of which are still in vestigal form, waiting the day when I grow inspired enough to finish them.  And I will, eventually. It&#8217;s just not right this minute.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been growing more and more tense over the upcoming election, but I&#8217;m still hopeful because to me, the mood feels akin to 1992 rather than 2000.  Right up until the election it wasn&#8217;t clear whether Bush Sr would manage to pull a victory off, but he didn&#8217;t.  I hope his son repeats the feat.<\/p>\n<p>It boggles my mind that there are still so many people in this country who intend to vote for him.  The country is in vastly worse shape than it was 4 years ago, and much of the chaos is directly attributable to him and his administration.  There are more terrorists in the world; there are more people who hate the United States, and those people now have real atrocities to point to in their recruitment.  The government is now massively in debt and teeters on the brink of financial disaster.  He has lied.  His minions have lied.  They have purposely misled the citizens of this country and the world with their statements.  Companies are outsourcing jobs at a high rate, and he and his Republican controlled congress have no interest in trying to at least make it less financially attractive for them to do it.<\/p>\n<p>And people want to vote for him&#8230; why?  Because they&#8217;re afraid the gay men down the street getting a piece of paper to validate the relationship they&#8217;ve had for years will somehow cause hellfire to rain down on <i>them<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people, when asked why they&#8217;re voting for Bush, will say &#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with him very much, but at least he stands for something.&#8221;  He certainly does. He stands for imperialism, arrogance, pig-headedness, blind stupidity, willful ignorance, bigotry and prejudice.  Having an opinion and sticking to it is not a reason to give a man unfettered power.  Captain Ahab stood for something, but he would have made a pretty crappy president.  (Though in spite of the whaling, I imagine his environmental policies couldn&#8217;t be any WORSE than Dubya&#8217;s&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, I started a few posts, all of which are still in vestigal form, waiting the day when I grow inspired enough to finish them. And I will, eventually. It&#8217;s just not right this minute. I&#8217;ve been growing more and more tense over the upcoming election, but I&#8217;m still hopeful because to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}