I promised a prick of the week entry, did I not? I could say the Cruz camp qualifies for it, maybe Joni Ernst, or Gordon Klingenschmitt for his exorcising Obama and homosexual causing demons. I could focus on Andy Harris (R-MD) who wants to overturn the will of the people of Washington DC to have their weed. Oh, it is a long list, and there is no shortage of people I can pick on for it. However, I have someone in mind, well more than I have somebodies in mind. If you are easily offended, I would say close this page now, because from here on, it is my declaration, and it is time to start calling people out.
So, the pricks of the previous week, and henceforth are you,
the people who ignorantly cast your votes for the GOP, and those of you who
were able to vote, but through pure stupidity elected not to. I am not talking about people whose names
were purged from the rolls, those who were unable to acquire adequate ID,
people who could not get away from work, or were not allowed to vote
absentee. I am talking about you jokers
who just said screw it, other people will vote, those of you who said my vote
does not matter. It is those of you who
shoved a big middle finger into the face of everyone else in this country who
was not allowed to vote, could not vote, or was doing what they could to ensure
that we the people were protected. You
not being bothered to vote, and that is what it really is, just put the screws
to children, the poor, the elderly, the gays, and yourselves.
If you voted for the GOP/Tea Party candidates, or you simple
said screw it, congratulations, you have screwed us all, and you can wear the
mantel of prick of the week for the next two years. As I have said repeatedly, you need to go
vote. Failure to vote harms our country
in many different ways. We will now be
subjected to fewer regulations that are meant to protect us from environmental
damage. We will not see a minimum wage
increase on a federal level. We will
encounter even more attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. We will once again see a tax decrease among
those who are already wealthy enough to own large portions of the country. We will see more calls for war, and more
calls for discrimination against those who are gay. We will see more calls for immigration reform
that will amount to securing our borders, and doing little else.
So what brought this on?
36%. Yeah, 64% of the people did
not vote this past election. How many
were voter purges, how many were unable to get proper ID, how many people were
forced to work, or otherwise disallowed because they did not have adequate time
to reregister to vote because of a move?
Unknown, but those people are not the problem. It is those who voted for the GOP, and those
who simply could not be bothered. Those
are the people who are the problem.
It has been said that when you vote for a Republican, you
vote against your self-interest, that you shoot yourself in the foot, and that
is the truth. That brings me to the end
of this entry, and I said at the beginning I had a declaration to make. Each time I am forced to call out a
conservative politician, I am going to call out all the people who could have,
should have voted and failed to do so. I
am going to beat it into the mind of every single person who graces this blog
with his or her presence, when a vote comes up, you go vote. You find a way to cast your vote. If you believe that both parties are the
same, I will berate you as ignorant, because we cannot say that at this
time. If you think the conservatives or
libertarians have the answers you are just stupid.
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