So if things really suck...
Nov. 1st, 2004 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikOkay, the election bit is almost over. In another thirty hours we should...
...uh, have a better idea what happens next. Seriously, I wonder how likely it is that we'll get a fairly clean decisive finish one way or the other. Maybe we're just all paranoid after the last election? I actually have to get up fairly early Wednesday morning, and might not be able to stay up to watch the legal proceedings begin...
In my more enlightened moments, I almost have myself convinced that if indeed we do get the highest voter turnout since WWII, and the election results themselves aren't highly tainted, then that itself is a victory, and I can accept that. Hey, at least maybe it means people are started to pay attention. Maybe after they've cast their votes they'll pay attention? Something.
But OTOH... what if we do have another clusterfuck like the last election? (There are times when it looks like almost a set up fo a political farce, what with Rheinquist home with what's looking like serious thyroid cancer, leaving us with an equally split 4/4 supreme court if he's unable to participate... And does anyone else practically fall to the floor in hysterical laughter at the thought of Sandra Day O'Connor as Chief Justice?) What if there is not only not a decisive victory, but evidence of meddling with votes, or other manipulations.
I mean, last time around, really, we were pretty patient. Really. I mean that. For all the foo-rah, people basically followed the script and gave some kind of vote of confidence for the system. At least in the abstract. And the system is supposed to be fixed now, right?
I kind of like the idea of rioting, but it's pretty hard to figure out a good local place to stage a riot. (Okay, okay, it's true, I really don't know anything about inciting riots. In fact, I find most political demonstrations actively unpleasant and unnerving examples of mob psychology. But I'm starting to think that in such a case it might be time to indulge some of those baser instincts.) Does anyone have a list of addresses of the Medina homes where Bush came for private intimate little fund raisers? Scratch that, y'know, even if at some level it seems symbolically appropriate, rioting as someones home just seems all wrong. If we were in Florida, it would be easy. I mean, the govenor's mansion is definately more a public symbol than a personal home, and it would just be the perfect site for a little civil unrest. (Well, okay, I'm not really thinking that civil.) Ideas? Messing up Seattle's downtown by conventional protests in front of government buildings just doesn't quite do it for me.
Does anyone know how much it costs to charter a bus? I do like the idea of a cross country tour to Washington DC in time for the inaugeration.
...uh, have a better idea what happens next. Seriously, I wonder how likely it is that we'll get a fairly clean decisive finish one way or the other. Maybe we're just all paranoid after the last election? I actually have to get up fairly early Wednesday morning, and might not be able to stay up to watch the legal proceedings begin...
In my more enlightened moments, I almost have myself convinced that if indeed we do get the highest voter turnout since WWII, and the election results themselves aren't highly tainted, then that itself is a victory, and I can accept that. Hey, at least maybe it means people are started to pay attention. Maybe after they've cast their votes they'll pay attention? Something.
But OTOH... what if we do have another clusterfuck like the last election? (There are times when it looks like almost a set up fo a political farce, what with Rheinquist home with what's looking like serious thyroid cancer, leaving us with an equally split 4/4 supreme court if he's unable to participate... And does anyone else practically fall to the floor in hysterical laughter at the thought of Sandra Day O'Connor as Chief Justice?) What if there is not only not a decisive victory, but evidence of meddling with votes, or other manipulations.
I mean, last time around, really, we were pretty patient. Really. I mean that. For all the foo-rah, people basically followed the script and gave some kind of vote of confidence for the system. At least in the abstract. And the system is supposed to be fixed now, right?
I kind of like the idea of rioting, but it's pretty hard to figure out a good local place to stage a riot. (Okay, okay, it's true, I really don't know anything about inciting riots. In fact, I find most political demonstrations actively unpleasant and unnerving examples of mob psychology. But I'm starting to think that in such a case it might be time to indulge some of those baser instincts.) Does anyone have a list of addresses of the Medina homes where Bush came for private intimate little fund raisers? Scratch that, y'know, even if at some level it seems symbolically appropriate, rioting as someones home just seems all wrong. If we were in Florida, it would be easy. I mean, the govenor's mansion is definately more a public symbol than a personal home, and it would just be the perfect site for a little civil unrest. (Well, okay, I'm not really thinking that civil.) Ideas? Messing up Seattle's downtown by conventional protests in front of government buildings just doesn't quite do it for me.
Does anyone know how much it costs to charter a bus? I do like the idea of a cross country tour to Washington DC in time for the inaugeration.
