bleh

[rone]

Didn't vote. Don't care about the results. Don't wanna know. I should be disgusted with myself, but i'm not.

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The guy I wanted to vote for dropped out before the primary, so there wasn't much point. I went anyway because I think I may be the most active voter in my precinct and I think there is an absurd charm to this. I don't know if anyone else showed up all day. And I wouldn't have blamed anyone for not showing up; in this sort of situation there's not even a much of a theoretical statistical advantage to voting.

Anyway, I voted for John Edwards sort of by default, and he's dropped out now anyway. Maybe I should have registered a protest vote for Clark or Dean instead. It hardly mattered.

Rest assured, I'll vote in the general election, undoubtedly for Kerry; the system may have its problems, but I'm basically thinking of the current campaign in stark apocalyptic terms. Bush's people, as far as I can tell, are attempting to break the United States, whether they realize it or not. There's a kind of worse-is-better thinking that invites this in order to hasten the revolution, but I don't believe that, because the revolution would probably kill several million people, myself included, and it's questionable that it would lead to anything better, there having been few angelic governments in human history. A gridlocked government with a somewhat sleazy Democratic executive is far preferable.