There is no sense of proportion to democracy. It is The Answer. Yet the answer it provides is bound to be disappointing to nearly everyone. For democracy works by pushing men toward political compromise, so it should be no surprise when year after year, our political leaders are, in fact, compromised.
–Peter Suderman, “The case for not voting: Why we care too much about politics.“

I’m glad it’s over.

No more stupid yard signs and obnoxious bumper stickers and yammering TV talking heads water-witching the polls and ranting poli-bloggers spewing talking points and posting links and video clips that amount to nothing. I can think of few more dreaded things than election year which makes TV unbearable and friends go off on each other, getting in verbal jabs however they can over a person they probably wouldn’t support except an either/or choice has been put before them.

In the end, no one person or party will make my taxes less, save my job, pay for my poor life decisions that resulted in high health care costs, save the environment, or make me happy and safe from pain. By the time you get to the top, you’re in someone’s pocket and it’s no longer about the mob, the hoi polloi, that you’re busy promising everything to.

I get so damn sick of this every four years.

The pandering. The idiocy of the voter.

“I like what so-and-so has to say.”

I like what a lot of people have to say. It doesn’t mean anything in the end.

There’s only one moon and you can’t promise it to everyone because that’s impossible. But I guess that’s politics.