it would seem that whenever i find myself with time to actually sit down and type out a blog, my mind goes blank of all of the brilliant things that i find myself thinking about when i'm sitting in traffic or blow drying my hair. in fact, i've started to think that my most brilliant thoughts actually occur when i'm blow drying my hair. i'm not sure why; it's probably just because it is such a time consuming process and i can't hear anything, all i can do is think. again, keeping with my irregularity of actually posting blogs, it has been some time since i've managed to say anything. and in that time lots of things have happened. much like my last post, today i am without a boss or a co-worker and have made it to the point of the day where i am content to type up a little diddy rather than launching into a new project. i really wish i could just sneak off early but i know that as soon as i step foot outside, my boss will call my desk and when i don't answer, she will call my cell phone, wondering where i am and why i'm not sitting at my desk doing something on my task list. anyway, here i am, thinking through my fingertips and hoping to be if nothing else amusing. let's start with the election last week and just see where that goes.
the election just happened last week and i have more than a few thoughts about what went down. quite frankly, this notion of just not voting is not something that i can understand today or will understand ever. it is your right as an american, very similar to your right to be able to complain. it is my opinion if you don't participate, then you don't deserve your right to complain. just a thought. and the voters who didn't turn out this time are the voters who make up approximately 30 percent of the nation wide electorate: the 18-30 year olds. where were we, guys? it's not enough to go out and vote once every four years for the president and feel like you've done your business as a citizen.
i'm not sure if it is for some reason hard to remember basic government classes from high school but let me give you a little refresher on the three branches of governement and therefore why it is important to vote in the midterm elections (and listen 18-30 year olds, we aren't that far removed from school so this analogy should make a lot of sense. you wouldn't have blown of the midterm in college and still expected to pass the final. same thing with voting.) the president is the executive branch, and while that is sweet and pretty bad ass if you ask me, he isn't in a position to write or create laws, just approve or deny them. this is why it is important to vote for congress, those pesky folks who run every two years (in the house) and every six (in the senate). you'll notice them because they tend to have the most commercials on tv and occasionally get mocked by snl. without a congress that is willing to work, the president doesn't get anything accomplished. in case this was for some reason not clear, i am a democrat so when i say a congress willing to work, i mean a congress willing to work for what is right for the country. now we are in a position where the house is likely to be under the leadership of an oompa loompa and it was because my peers who got barack obama elected decided to sit on their thumbs on election day. thanks guys.
i did hear a lot of chatter before the election that lgbt voters shouldn't support democrats in this election because they haven't done enough for lgbt rights since taking control of the congress and the white house. yeah i understand that. and i was annoyed by this when i saw it coming up on facebook and whatever else but didn't say anything. now that i've had a proper amount of time to think, i've become even more pissed off about this notion. if you genuinely think that the republicans that were elected last week are the kind of people who are going to advance your agenda, i think you might need to take a closer look at what got elected (rand paul? come on.) also consider this whole branches of government thing. the house is now republican dominated, do you think that we are going to see any progressive pieces of legislation from that body making it to the president's desk? thanks for standing up and saying that you were tired of democrats not doing enough but in this game, no one won.
now besides my upset about the election (and it goes much further than the national stuff because i live in michigan and we got f-ed in the a and not in a positive life affirming kind of way) i have to imagine that there are other things rolling around in my mind. we are having unseasonably lovely weather in the mitten considering that it is nearly mid-november (thank you global warming) though the fall back means that it is nearly dark when i leave work at night, which is kind of a bummer.
it would appear that i've run out of things to ramble on about so i think it might be time for me to actually continue on with my work day.
from the girl who gets real pissed when people don't vote.
until next time...
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