Surprise surprise!!! It's been one week since you went and voted for all you favorite democratic candidates. Anything in your life changed yet? I didn't think so. Maybe we should give them another week. Maybe two. Maybe ol' Ddot is just impatient and we should give them 6 months to get things together. Or maybe folks need to wake up and realize that no matter who is in control things are never perfect and usually get worse despite good intentions by some.
Damn I'm pessimistic.
Nah I'm just realistic. This country is well over 200 years old and the change of power goes back and forth between this group and that group and yet if you ask anybody 30 plus they'll tell you that things constantly get worse despite advances in science and technology. Odd isn't it? I graduated high school in 1994. The bad kids were the dudes that smoked in the bathroom or maybe left school to get lunch from McDonalds. If there was a fight in school it was big news. Now at my old school the kids walk through metal detectors and have a police officer on duty. Same school just a little over ten years later. Amazing. My point? It doesn't really matter. The democrats will ensure you make more money per hour and then tax the crap out of you to start social programs. The republicans cut taxes(especially for the rich) so that you get more money on your check and cut programs because they believe you should do what you want with your money. Both interesting points of view and obviously neither is overwhelmingly better than the other. So keep your vote or die t-shirts. I know plenty of people who voted and died anyway. One.
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i couldn't agree with you more. politics is not my thing but the more things change the more they stay the same. its all a confusing ball of lies. if you vote for me i'll do this...then they get in office and don't change shit. so i figure whats the point. i hate it when people say that if you don't vote then you don't have the right to complain... i didn't complain to begin with so shut up. voting gives you the right to complain that no matter how much you bitch about voting even if you do vote shit still stays the same.
where you been D?
ummm who peed in your cornflakes
I wouldn't say things get worse as much as they don't change for poor folks as fast as they should/could. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, and the gap between rich and poor gets larger.
And if you don't vote, assuming that you have the right, then why should you complain? What sense does complaining make without action towards change....even if your favorite candidate loses.
I wrote about voting a few weeks ago - gave my voting advise. But it was just a joke. This time, I just voted against all incumbants on the ballot. I actually had to vote for a few libertarians, but, hey, maybe they have it right. They bitch and complain and never get elected.
pessimistic?? ya' think?
although.. you do make valid points...
First of all let me say that it blows my mind that any of yall still come here to see if I wrote something. Thanks.
Brownsoul you are absolutely right about the rich and the poor which helps to prove my point. Things have been like that forever. Governments have never solved one problem. Never. And let's not keep this just in the U.S.A. There have been all kinds of governments since the beginning of time and not one has solved man's problems. None. Sure as humans in general there have been advances but it really doesn't matter who is in office. One way or the other an overwhelming number of people either won't be happy or are ignored. As VX said it took women and other minorities years uopn years to get the right to vote. Some of those same people that didn't stand up for the rights of everybody to vote are still in charge of things. Are these the people I want to waste my tuesday afternoon voting for? Nope. So the answer is "change" right? just like in 1994 when as a collective we decided that the democrats in congress couldn't get the job done and the republicans took over. Turns out they screwed up too so now we replace them with the same folks from 12 years ago? Nah I can find better stuff to do with my time.
I feel you, everybody was running around like the democrats were the second coming or something.
It annoys me to no end, people should never vote for a party just because they thing they should.
I urge everyone to review ALL the candidates and vote each individual candidate that you think represents you best.
I voted for three republicans, five democrats and an independent in my local elections.
We get too caught up in labels sometimes I think.
oh yea -- got that new jay-z king, it's solid.
I see your point, D. If you're not pleased with the choices, then why waste your time (at least that's the approach I took) but I guess my problem is that I have accepted the system for what it is. It's not easy for "the people" to bring about change. Voting would only be step one because no matter who gets elected, you have to be on top of them to make sure the issues you're concerned about are addressed. However, most folks aren't doing that. I say if you really care about who gets elected , then you should vote...if for no other reason than to keep the guy you hate the most from winning.
On a personal note, I admit (not proudly) that I've become quite apathetic. Not that I'm happy with the way things are, but I've just become less optimistic about change. I guess as a black woman who received a degree from a historically and predominantly white male institution, I shouldn't have that attitude, but it is what it is.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Nice post.
Now we have to vote for our next Nigerian President come April 2007. Please read my post and give me your feedback. Thanks.
Brownsoul, one word: Beautiful.
D, two words: Spare me!
It has only been a week! Maybe we should give the Dems more than 12 years to see if things really turn around. Did anyone notice the gas prices go down by almost a buck just before the elections, and now, they are almost back up to the price it was at 8 weeks prior to the elections? Did anyone notice the slump in the Stock Market?
Voting may not have changed much but at least some who have loved ones in Iraq-Bush’s war to earn oil- may actually have a chance to spend New Year’s with their loved ones.
I hate to be this direct about this matter but we have to realise the power of a single voice. Without Martin Luther's single voice, we won't have some of the privileges we now enjoy, albeit limited.
Things don’t change much because of a mentality like the one expressed by Chuck Gillespie(name is made up) who would go to the polls and check all Republican or Democratic names on the ballot without even stopping to think that he has lost almost a million dollars in the stock market, the value of his house has drastically decreased, and that the USA is now more vulnerable than ever to a terrorist attack than before 9/11. But again that is democracy-government for the people, by the people and with the people.
Things don’t change either, if you would adopt the mentality being expressed in this post. Don’t get me wrong, because I do validate your logic here. But you may not have noticed that things changed for the worse because you may have actually contributed to things being that bad by not voting at all. Your high school Alma Mater may now have metal detectors because you failed to go vote on gun control years ago and maybe your vote could have swung the decision the other way.
Voting is the only human way possible for your opinion to be heard given the society in which we live nowadays. To have the right and not exercise it, I think you should be taken to the guillotine. People died to secure that right for you and me. And still, in many parts of Africa, Cameroon for instance, people don’t have the right to vote or they are allowed to vote but the elections are stolen by the incumbent, just like Bush did Florida in the yesteryears. Back there in Africa, people are dying daily fighting for the right to express their choice.
My view that not voting should be treated as a capital offence may be too fundamentalist but I see no reason to have the right to vote and not exercise that right just because you don’t think you would make a difference and then ONE WEEK-only one week- after the elections, you come out fluttering, pointing out how things haven’t changed yet. The Dems took over the House of Senate and Congress. They did not take all executive power from the Reps yet. Senate and Congress can enact laws, etc but the Head of State can veto any one of them.
One vote, one voice is a powerful tool. Had Nelson Mandela not stood up in defiance of the Apartheid system in South Africa; that country may still have been under the worse form of racial segregation ever known to mankind. Your vote may not have counted because your candidate lost, but you never really would understand what that one vote could have done had it come down to just your vote in order for your candidate to win.
As much as I hate to admit this...
Oh Great King...
You are right!!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVIN'!
I'm showing love to my fellow Gemini Genius!
I heart you KING!!
your blog is pretty! =)
you gonna go the whole month?
Hey King! Where you at??
Ok, D, now that I'm back you can commence to writing again. I know it saddened you to see me leave and you just couldn't write anymore. LOL
ok its been a month. get over yourself.
ass! i ain't checking her no more...
ddot: Wishing you a Happy New Year!
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