would anybody something about the protest march next saturday in Amsterdam. I guess it is time that I join something. Not just talk politics once in a while, but actually do something!
*sigh* There are no protests near me that I can get to. I thought about trying to set something up here, but my town is ultra-conservative Republican, and I'd probably get lynched. There's a large amount of people here who think that creationism should be taught in our schools as scientific theory.
Which makes you stand out big time and must have it's charm as well. Still, I can understand your frustation a bit. I teach politics to some 16 years old who come up with some sick ideas sometimes and won't listen to reason either..
Yup. And I run into all sorts of idiots in my restaurant, where I work. People who don't even qualify as "Democrats" or "Republicans" or any sort of political bend. They're just mouthing back to me what they see on the American media, without thinking about it, and it drives me nuts.
And all those nutters last year in my country voted for a man who had been shot a week and a half earlier. However bad murder is, however much I disliked his political views, all unimportant points. What remains is: why vote for a corpse?
Nope, you can't. But the rest of us can sit back and find it vastly amusing that someone lost to a dead guy. In Ashcroft's case, I believe they gave the Senate seat to the dead fellow's wife.
Y'know, now that you mention it, I'm not sure how it happened that she got awarded the seat. It's definately out of the norm. I think they weren't quite sure what to do when her husband won -- and he won by quite a landslide, I believe.
Must be devastating to your self esteem, losing to a corpse. It will remain with you for the rest of your life. By the time you start considering suicide, you realise that it would also mean that you might win the next election, but you will never know if it's true. The next blow: the insecurity of becoming the first corpse to actually lose an election. Decisions, decisions. Life is full of them.
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Date: 2003-02-22 10:09 am (UTC)I like that!