Pyat makes a political prediction!

[pyat]

I predict John McCain will probably win the election down south, though perhaps by an inconcievably narrow margin. It strikes me that both sides draw support from very stratified classes of voters, and the numbers don't change much. (I ignore, for now, the possibility of coordinated voting fraud, though I do not think it a zany conspiracy theory. That sort of thing happens around the world, all the time.)

That said, choosing Palin as a veep will at least make the shallower sort of Republican happier about voting for McCain, because she's young(ish) and personable, and has never, ever sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann".

Comments

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

First and foremost, anarchism means ownership of one's own political responsibility and effect, on all scales. Choosing to ignore the situation because it's hard to see clearly doesn't help anyone.

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

I choose to ignore the situation because it's something that I can afford to ignore. As far as it relates to me, the big picture is this: Either way the voting goes, it doesn't matter. Neither candidate is different enough to actually change anything, or "make things better." About the only thing that would change things "make things better" would be something that most Americans aren't willing to do. So, then, either way, it doesn't matter who's voted in.

As far as ownership and political responsibility of cause and effect, I have that. It's just that I'm not a humanitarian, and my voicing the opinions that I have is far more likely to spur aggressive conversation (ie drama) in a journal that isn't my own, and that's not fair to anyone.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

"Making things better," for most people, is the kind of small details that administrators and beaurocrats actually can change. Public funded healthcare, for example. Or investing in public works. It's not like we're blatantly ignoring some other utopian system lurking at the bottom of a revolutionary precipice; close up on any governmental body and you'll find the same petty corruption and favour-brokering economy. The details of those senate meetings and the transcripts of those question periods hold the reality of who gets what when and why. I mean, seriously, where do you get your food?