I am a worm. I am less than a worm, I am pond scum, toe jam, belly-button lint. I have no voice or purpose of my own. Others with voice and purpose use me, walk all over me, wipe their feet on me. I am a mere pawn in a game that I am powerless to affect in any way. Powerful forces over which I have no control have rendered me and millions like me irrelevant. We will not be counted. We are utterly meaningless. We don't matter. Why don't we just go away and die.
First they - the ones who decide, who have a voice, who are not pond scum - took away our voice. They made our election meaningless. Now one of them wants to use us because she likes the way our meaningless election is turning out. She pretends to care about us. She pretends to stand up for us. She says our voice should be heard. It's only coincidental that it works out to her advantage. Does she think we were all born yesterday? First we were reduced to irrelevancy, then we have our intelligence insulted. Just go ahead and add salt to our wounds, kick us while were down, run up the score over a beaten foe. We are nothing. We don't matter. Fuck us.
We are reduced to the role of whiners. You shouldn't have cheated, we are told. You shouldn't have moved up your primary. You shouldn't have striven for relevancy. Never mind that we were not the ones who decided that. How could we? We are mere nobodies. We didn't cheat on anything; we have no control over such matters. To be reduced to the level of meaningless bystanders was bad enough. But now we are further reduced to the level of exploited meaningless bystanders. First the results of our primary election are twisted by the fact of our irrelevancy, then she wants to use those twisted results to her advantage. Is there no end to our debasement? Is there no end to our humiliation? Just use us, abuse us, walk all over us, make us write bad checks.
What are we to do, we the 4 million voiceless nobodies, the meaningless ones, the dirt of all voters? Are we to stumble along to the polls and cast our either totally meaningless or shamelessly exploited votes on January 29? Are we to stay home and sit this one out since obviously no one cares about our participation except the one who wants to exploit us? Are we to boycott since that at least would give voice to our anger? What now are we to do? If we participate at all we only add legitimacy to a system that has already thoroughly screwed us and wants to screw us even more. Do we want to assist in our own screwdom?
Tell me, why should I participate in this travesty of bastardized democracy. Lay on with your arguments heaped in self-righteous scorn, you who are not meaningless, who still have a voice. Pile on with your guilt trips and your demands for loyalty. Castigate me for thinking the unthinkable, that I may sit this one out. Go ahead, throw your mud. Unleash you attack dogs. Rip my unloyal ass to pieces. Feel free to abuse me and the 4 million like me. For who are we? We are nothing. We are the lowest of the low. We are dirt, pond scum, toe nail clippings. We are boogers plucked from the nose of the American electorate and flung to a corner of the room. We are Florida Democrats. We are nothing.