Final Debate

I’ll be honest, I did not watch the debate last night. I’ve since read about it and it was basically what I thought it would be.

“I’m better, he’s awful.”
“No, I’m better, he’s the one who’s awful.”

I don’t know how many “nuh-uh’s” were worked in over the evening. But, altogether it was pointless.

I would like to see some data on how many people watch the debates to actually choose who they’ll vote for, rather than watching to cheer on who they’ve already decided on. I’ll bet it’s not as many as we’d all like to think.

Our system is, while acceptable and useful, overrated to say the least. Where is the democracy really? There are two candidates. Yes, of course I can write in and there is typically at least one independent but these guy s have no shot. To believe that they do is naïve and foolish. It’s going to be one of two people.

What kind of choice is that? I don’t consider myself Democrat or Republican because they’re both poor choices. But I have to choose one. I align myself with Barack Obama, not because he has some brilliant new insight or because I actually believe he’s going to change the world, but because he’s not John McCain.

Republicans have had their chances, and they blew it, big time. Now it’s the Dems turn to ruin the nation. Fair is fair after all.

What’s worse, is that these two choices are mainly solidified by the “go team” aspect of most voters. People are voting straight party lines and they believe who they believe not because of what the candidate does, but what they say, how they pander.

On top of that you have 90% of churches in America pushing McCain or whoever the republican candidate is. Okay, I don’t know how many churches actually are, but I’m fairly confident it’s over 50%. I’ve never understood it since I began to understand politics, who in their right mind would think that Jesus “Turn the other cheek” Christ would vote republican? Then again who thinks he’d go to half the churches talking about him either.

The point is, we’re not voting on issues or even personalities which do have an effect. We’re voting because that’s what preacher/hubby/pastor/mommy said to. We’re voting so that our team can win, so that in our mundane and boring lives we can say “I’m with the winners” even though we all lose.

We need to change government, we need to stop worrying about what faith a candidate has or whether or not they agree with gay marriage. I can think of no bigger waste of American time and resources than another abortion debate.

We need more choices, a labor party perhaps. We need something, and I don’t know how to change it or what to do. Any suggestions would be more than welcome though.