I received a text message yesterday morning reminding me that there was a special election and that I needed to go vote.
I didn't.
I didn't even consider it. Because I don't see our side fighting hard enough to make any serious changes to the way things work/don't work in the country.
They talk a lot, but when it comes down to it, they don't fight...so why bother?
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I don't know that that is the reason why the R got elected in a Democratic area where the R's haven't held a seat in ages, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I doubt I'll vote in 2012 either.
Our guys are just so pathetic.
Obama gives this big speech about jobs, and everyone applauds that he sounds like he has some fight in him now.
And then the very next day, the headlines are...Obama will sign parts of the bill he can get (instead of fighting to get the whole thing passed).
It just reinforced what I've been seeing for the last two years.
He defines the argument, picks the middle, jumps right to it, and then gives in over and over and over as the R's pull him to the right.
In the process, the actual parts of whatever he should have been fightiing for, the parts that would have provided a benefit to the middle class and the lower class, are left out.
All I see day after day is a passionate conservative party that sticks to their guns, and ad wishy washy progressive party that won't fight for anything..or at least not till the end.
There is plenty of posturing at first, for about a day, and then the caving begins.
I'm so sick of it, that now I follow politics about 1/2 half as much as I did. I read stuff here, but more out of morbid curiousity than anything else.
I don't know how the people here who still care, manage to maintain their optimism or their fight. It just seems like a lost cause to me.
Let the R's have the next election. The economy is going to suck anyway. Why not let them take the blame for it, instead of fight tooth and nail to elect D's that are going end up caving to the elected R's anyway?
I've lost all but a passing interest in all of this now. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck.
Sorry, but that is how I feel, and why I didn't vote, and why I probably won't vote in 2012.