Kicking the crust off

[greatbear]

I have a rather large friends list as part of my LJ Experience™. The cool part is not the number of people, but the variety. So many different talents, abilities, viewpoint, and so many expressive people. While I might not comment everywhere, I do try my best to read every post in its entirety. This includes those entries I might not agree or align with. After all, I read folks' stuff as an entire body of work, as an insight into who they are, what they like/dislike, etc. I'm sure there's quite a large pile of those who subscribe to my scribes here who don't share all of my views, hobbies, pastimes, orientations and whatnot. I run down my f-list entries and occasionally find something that might rub me the wrong way, if it looks like there might be an opportunity for a healthy debate, I might post something to that effect. Quite often, I see something and just think, "that's nice" and skip to the next entry. But every now and then, I will read a post that should not go unanswered. In rare cases, this might be a friends-only locked post with comments disabled. When it's an entry that reeks so much of fail, and it lays there like a Malamute turd on a child's birthday cake, I feel the need to drag it out into the light before the mushrooms start sprouting. Like this bon mot:

It's sad to think that as a Conservative I can only vote Once. ~Gosh~ if I was a Democrat I could vote multiple times whether I was alive/dead/registered or not!

~Beware of Voter FRAUD, People~

O rly, now? You actually believe this? You think this happens all over the place? And do you think it's only a problem with Democrats? Or are you making a joke or some sort of twisted commentary? I'm sure by the above statement you imply that Republicans are above board at all times, keepers of all that is moral, right and good.

So there you have it, folks. The political discourse of this once great nation has been reduced to noise like that up there in red text. Politicians, in their race to the bottom have reduced people to mindless thinking and parroting dimbulb personalities. I might not like the end results of some of the candidates I voted for, but I'm still willing to tough it out, fight the good fight, and hold all elected leaders' feet to the fire.

Sadly, I think after tomorrow's elections, the race to the bottom will pick up mach speed.

(Bonus points to those who know the above quoted poster's identity. I'm not revealing it, but you can. It's a free country, after all.)

Comments

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

I heard that voter fraud claims were being made again. It's just ore crap to keep peoples minds off the real issues. We have politicians getting good numbers that refuse to talk to the press. WTF! The race to the bottom is getting to be a shorter and shorter trip.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

And let's not forget that in that race to the bottom we actually HIT bottom, there is no place to go but up.

That said, I have no clue who the poster is and I don't really care who, just that it aint me. :-)

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I don't know who it is, but he's a fucking idiot. The whole "voter fraud" bit is a complete fabrication, a curtain to tart up the Repugnican voter suppression effort.

[jkusters]

If it is who I think it is, he posted the same thing on Facebook and I've been, um, interacting with him about it. It's been interesting, full of ACORN and FoxNews links. And nothing that actually shows with evidence that Democrats are actually voting multiple times. Very annoying.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The Bush administration found very few real cases of that happening, and they made every effort to find them.

[jkusters]

I'm not surprised. Yet there are quite a few examples of Republican leaders getting slapped for "irregularities". *shrug*

The user said that he'd provided plenty of links on his LJ, but they must be behind locked entries and neither of us are "friends" of each other here, so there's no way I could have seen them or responded to them. I'm happy to debate on substance and with credible sources, but I can't argue with hidden journal entries.

[tbrough.livejournal.com]

The collective amnesia the country seems to enter every election cycle always stuns me.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

"Sadly, I think after tomorrow's elections, the race to the bottom will pick up mach speed."

More like warp speed....

[cpj.livejournal.com]

The auditing of the Franken election was a pretty good indicator that no fraud was found.

[2stroker.livejournal.com]

In America the whole electoral process is a fraud.Both parties are owned by corporate amerika and democracy is nothing more than an illusion.If we really lived in a democracy we wouldn't be in the state we are in today and your vote would be meaningful but as it stands now it's all rather hollow ,why bother ,it's just a waste of time.They will get elected,democrats and republicans and tomorrow we will be seeing the same 3 ring circus with the same clowns and elephants doing the same tired bullshit routines ,the good old corporate amerika two step.It's broken beyond fixing in the voting booth.Time to wake up to this sad reality.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

They should hire him to make political tv commercials. It would be a stupid but pleasant change from the constant finger pointing. Apparently even the dog catcher sent all our jobs overseas, worked to abolish Social Security, and increased spending to record highs.

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

It frightens me that people like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell can actually achieve political legitimacy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/christine-odonnell-craziest-quotes_n_718328.html#s145720