halmark has done a very evil thing to america. while i'm glad for the made up holidays that lead to a paid day off from work, i am always troubled by how easy it is to create bullshit holidays, such as sweetest day. there isn't any kind of false pretense that this holiday exists for any reason beyond getting people to spend money to prove to their significant other that they love them. oh and problem to cause fights, that ultimately end with spending more money, when half of the couple forgets that this made up holiday exists. i am of the mind set that if you are in a relationship with someone, you should probably be able to figure out how to express those feelings on your own without the mandatory feeling that holidays create. and more importantly, it serves as probably an even worse reminder to all single people that they are single. in case there weren't enough reminders in the first place (middle aged prying women, i'm looking at you. just because i'm standing near you in line at starbucks, doesn't make it ok to ask me why i've made it to 26 without committing myself to someone else.) that aside, well done halmark. you have done a truly excellent job at making a crap load of money capitalizing on love and lust.
at the start of writing this blog, i kind of thought that i was going to continue ranting about valentine's day and taking this time to complain generally about being single on such an absurd holiday. then a thought occurred to me. i'm not annoyed about being single today, not any more than i am any other day. truth be told, i like that the pressure isn't on me to have to pretend like i care about today. my ex used to like to make a big deal about valentine's day, anniversaries and the like. he was the romantic part of our relationship and any excuse was a good one in his book. i ultimately felt guilty because i'm pretty bad at faking things and i'm not excessively expressive so i always felt like i was kind of faking it through. anyway, as far as i am concerned, today is monday and the next idiot who posts their facebook status as something about how much their love their significant other, they are getting hidden. i can only be a good sport for so long.
this past weekend was the michigan democratic convention and as if i am not usually hopped up on politics, this was like an injection right into my veins. i always dread going because there is so much hubub, which i don't enjoy but once i'm there i always enjoy myself. i love seeing the friends that i don't get to spend that much time with and chatting (particularly when we are supposed to be listening to a speaker). so there was a lot of rah-rahing going on. trying to rally the dems into believing that we can work together and come back in 2012 from the loses in 2010. fired up and ready to go was the phrase they wanted us to internalize. i'm always excited for what's coming next and the potential that each election brings, if for no other reason than i really like voting. the message was clear on saturday and we all need to remember it. it's not going to be an easy road, but it's up to us to make it. we are democrats, after all. hard work is what we do and that is how we will win.
so on my democratic high, i found myself catching up on the news and things sunday afternoon and read an article about what the "original intent" would look like in regards to the tea party. i was reminded something upon reading that article which quickly lead me to getting really pissed off. michelle bachmann is the ringleader of the tea party idiots and any minority republican really confuses me so for a woman to be in charge of this extreme group is exceptionally unsettling. what i think she fails to realize is that if this country was to return to the days of "freedom" that the tea party spews on about, ms. bachmann would likely just be a wife to some likely abusive man. she wouldn't have the ability to vote or own property, let alone run for office. far be it for logic to be interjected in her opinions. it's probably just my liberal education that has ruined my mind and made me think that the constitution had to be amended several times to be inclusive, and we still have a way to go. meanwhile, congress is talking about taking dangerous steps to roll back women's rights to a time when we couldn't even make such basic decisions as what to do with our own bodies. it is 2011 and there are "leaders" in the US House that would have us go backwards because policies in place to jive with their narrow minded beliefs.
this is america. we still repress full groups of people because some feel as though it is their place to judge what love is, to the point that rights are restricted. and yet, members of the lgbt community identify as republicans. the republicans want to restrict the rights that were hard fought for women. and yet, there are women who are republicans. how is it possible to look at this party and think "they are looking out for my best interest?" when they couldn't more blatantly be looking out for their wallet's best interest? they want to roll our country backwards, into the early 20th century where it was the best time to be a straight, white male. this should alarm the rest of us.
it would seem i have reached the end of my rant, mostly because i need to attend to some actual work now due to a series of cranky emails from my boss after four work days of silence on her end.
from the girl who will be a democrat until i die
until next time...
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