CJ's idea: Vote for yourSELF...

I found this over at Universal Plume, CJ's blog and asked for permission to repost it. I just don't know what to do about all the really wonderful amerikkkan bloggers I've met who are otherwise fairly sane folks who seem to be completely taken in by these upcoming elections. It's hard to have conversation about either Obama or McCain or Hilary or Palin - real woman mother of the nation - with a straight face. They're all so conniving and laughable.

I don't think that people are willing to admit that making a choice when the choices are so stink isn't really any sort of choice at all.
sigh...
in any case...
this is what CJ wrote:



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Vote for Yourself.
That's what I'll be doing.

It's my big, sloppy, drunken, naked, genital waving FUCK YOU to a system that doesn't represent me or anyone else that isn't rich, white, male, hetero, and so fucking masturbatoriarly high on their own power that they are literally willing to kill every single fucking being on the planet to prove it.

I'm going to make t-shirts. I'm going to post flyers. I'm going to blog it again and again and again.
Vote for Yourself. This is supposed to be the people's country. Take it back. Tell the motherfuckers you'd rather have a regular shmoe like you in office instead of their pasty, prissy, patriarchal, power-hungry, piss-poor, shitty, stupid butts.

The popular vote (the PEOPLE'S vote) counts for dick, of course. If you didn't know that, welcome to the knowledge that in a supposedly citizen-run government, a 'democracy', you have absolutely no say about not only who is elected, but the decisions they make on YOUR 'behalf' once they get there.

Democracy my fucking hairy clit.

I am sick of hearing people yell at each other over which 'candidate' will more gently and lovingly fuck them in the ass. These people can not get to the positions they do without being deeply, deeply invested in a system that FUCKS US ALL IN THE ASS WITHOUT OUR EXPRESS AND HEARTFELT AND SINCERE PERMISSION. It is a non-consensual fucking, a blind, bad, raping fuck that is hurting and killing and psychically maiming generations of people.

Vote for Yourself. Think about it...even though our vote counts for precisely squat (which it absolutely does), a nation of people who refuse to buy into the fucking puppetry any more will surely scare the living fucking shit out of the power/fear mongers. Right? It would be a radical departure from the stick-your-head-in-the-sand-and-pretend-it's-all-okay tactic we've been employing for several decades, right?

Will somebody please stand up? Will somebody please DO SOMETHING with me? Make it stop. Just make it fucking STOP.

I can't handle the apathy any more. The ignorance. The uncaring, inattentive, habitually distracted mob of people thoroughly unwilling to lift a fucking finger to save themselves (me too). We'd rather DIE...literally...have all of our freedoms and rights jacked from right under our noses...than give up one second of our 'free' time or one ounce of convenience.

We are addicted to distraction. To leisure. To giving up. It's become 'cool' to not give a fuck about anyone but yourself and those closest to you. We have been sedated, neutered by television and radio and toilet humor. We are primed for the kill. We are on the conveyor belt headed for the blades. We're already half-dead.

The other half is so filled with fear and a need to conform and a need to OBEY that we can't even breathe. We lay still and hope they won't taser us. Won't slit our throats out of the goodness of their fucking hearts. We snicker, hiss and boo at anyone who has any courage or strength to say anything unscripted, step anywhere outside the lines, do anything not on the approved 'To Do' list.

And that's why we're in this mess. And that's why if a large group of people doesn't say something/do something, quick, it's all going to be over. All the stupid, petty, pointless, unimportant SHIT we think is so fucking important, more important than our freedom, our rights, our autonomy, our liberty, will be gone. Forever. We have gift-wrapped it and handed it gleefully over to those who would enslave and torture us for their own benefit.

And this is totally fucking okay with just about everyone I meet. Nobody talks about it. Nobody fucking gives a shit. Paychecks and rent and Saturday night bingo games are all more important. Don't want to be a downer, after all. Reality is so depressing, let's Talk About Something Else.

Anything but what's important. What matters.

I can't stand it. I can't fucking STAND IT.

LET'S DO SOMETHING, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THIS. THIS COUNTRY CAN BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. WE JUST HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STAND UP AND TAKE BACK WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE OURS (though really, never was).

Open your mouths. Open your eyes. Unplug and detach.

Vote For Yourself. Talk to your friends, talk to your family. Talk to yourself. But for the love of Pam, don't fucking lie down and take it.

No Way. No How. No McCain.

BEFORE:

Clinton takes spotlight at convention

Clinton Supporters Discuss Supporting Obama

Clinton fans deaf to words of healing

As Clinton backers steer toward apparent nominee, a few signal problems

Hillary supporters still lagging

Bill Clinton Undercuts Barack Obama

O'Reilly: Danger in Denver

Democrats set for Clinton moment

AFTER:

Clinton makes strong case for Obama

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton urges party to back Obama

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton delivers ringing call for Democratic unity

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Gee… The headlines sure look different than before Hillary’s speech, huh, Wally?

What did we expect, a bar fight, a WWF smack down, a Jerry Springer moment?

The obvious underpinning of all the negative pontificating before she spoke was pure, adulterated hype meant to sell newspapers and get the advertisers to line up and maybe help Ann Coulter write another useless book. With the MSM going all apeshit over the Clintons, go figure, one might have thought that Bill and Hillary were actually thinking what the mainstream media and the RNC and Rove wanted us to think they were thinking. Hmmm? As it turns out, however, they weren't.

Hillary gave a very powerful speech tonight; a resounding message of we are united. A call to hold hands and sing Kumbaya…

Yes. In some way I meant that last line in a patronizing, smart-assery sort of way, but, in another part of my brain, I truly think that that is, metaphorically speaking, what took place during her speech. Not because the Democratic party and the country were fragmented, but because the American people, despite the last eight years, see through the bullshit that is tossed around and recycled into what is essentially pandering and they choose their own moments. You’d think that after all these years the powers that be would have learned this lesson? I suppose they have their noses too far up the money changer’s asses to grasp the not so subtle message.

“No Way. No How. No McCain.” It’ll fit on a t-shirt and it’s rather idiomatic, if you live in the US of A! Can’t beat that…

With that said… We urgently need to change this countries political thinking. It is not a two party system. It is a United Constitutional Democratic Republic- for the people, by the people and of the people. There are more viewpoints than conservative and liberal. Than conservative and progressive. There are more diversities. There are other parties. Other ideas and ideals. Other considerations besides Republican and Democrat.

Corporations are not a people. The Military Industrial Complex, aside from the men and women in uniform, are not a people. Big Pharma is not a people. Big Oil is not a people.

On the other hand… Teachers, Brick Layers, Fire Fighters, Engineers, Factory Workers, Nurses, Doctors, Lawyers, Coaches, Actors, Writers, Retirees, Athletes, Hair Dressers, Farmers, Dental Assistants, Restaurant Workers, Pilots, Military Enlistees, Homemakers, Clerks, Telemarketers, Artists, Singers, Dancers, Scientists, Preachers, Pianists, Violinists, Conductors, Surgeons, Bankers, Landscapers, Builders, Judges, Taxi Drivers, Disk Jockeys, Professors, Students, Architects, Street Walkers, Homeless, Jobless, Brown, White, Red, Yellow, Tan, Black, Gay, Straight, Bi, High, Low, Tall, Short, Skinny, Fat, Redheaded, Blonde, Brunette, Grey, Male, Female, Transgendered, Indian, African, Asian, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, and yes, even Politicians, are the people… These are the people(s) who, quite evidently, need to be represented by more than only two parties. Right?

Well come two thousand and nine I suggest that we begin to make that happen…for the good of our country and its peoples.

And, with that said, let me reiterate that I think Hillary gave a magnificently powerful and moving speech, and proved, yet again, that she has the skills, the intellect, and the grace to lead... I just don't want to be led...