Voting While Hating
Defending everything a politician does is as psychotic as thinking government can solve our problems, which makes it a popular hobby these enlightened days. Coercion is the key to delivering health care, housing, and a cushy retirement, according to boastful lunatics. If their ideas are this swell, they must be delightful humans. Those who suspect elections are between two toadying minions of Satan don’t vote happily, as that’d imply happiness with the process.
A true liberty fan don’t have a side, or at least not any affiliation other than with Andrew W.K.’s Party Party. Someone sick of being bothered with silly restrictions might vote for Republicans because they profess a slightly smaller desire to manage individuals’ calendars, although there’s scant evidence in practice. Either way, vote reluctantly so it’s not taken for granted. The best part about not being loyal to either of two hideous factions stocked with pompously inept wannabe tyrants is that you don’t have to defend anyone screwing up your life for your benefit.
Politicians are at fault for being their awful selves. Voters can avoid blame for the gross results by ensuring they’re unenthusiastic. Scuzzy conduct is connected to office-fillers like insults are to Don Rickles. Only a hockey puck would take representative government that literally. The easiest way to avoid being forced to defend the conduct of politicians is to hate those you support. Express contempt for those you grudgingly supported as marginally less repulsive trash piles.
Thinking someone who wants to reign over you is especially appalling with today’s particularly dim saviors. There’s never been more of a least worse option in nearly every election. Someone who feels obligated to get a politician’s back may as well defend Saved by the Bell as golden television. I hated those awful fake students when I was their age and I hate them now. A partisan can defend what a party is doing, although I’m baffled and saddened that anyone would. Standing with representatives as they lie and fail personally is a betrayal of fellow humans to the traitors amongst us.
How can you condemn ickiness when your side’s person was a scumbag, too? Whataboutism is America’s most popular hobby, as excusing bad behavior by noting other factions engage in it as well is the easiest way to avoid having to meet high standards. Some make a career out of pointing to distract from what their pals are stealing. Noting the other side is stockpiled with satanic lying gropers has kept Sean Hannity in the air in between interviews with his dreamboat.
If you need to look up to someone, find someone who can chase a ball and buy his jersey. At least a point guard or cornerback won’t tell you how to live. Hero worship is unseemly no matter the field. But the phenomenon of bowing to someone should be contained to a stadium or cinema. Unlike politicians, some actors are proficient at fooling.
Sticking up for those who stick us up on Tax Day is galling. Remember that even prominent people have to brush their teeth and get cranky if they wait too long for lunch. Flaws are especially notable for those dooming the rest to financial ruin for the privilege of having to buy crummy insurance.
Some adulate politicians, of all people. It’s natural to be ashamed of everyone involved. There’s nothing more important in a healthy republic than avoiding thinking any of them deserve you putting your integrity on the line. Admiring those who sucked up to enough voters with promises to take from the rest is as awful as thinking such plundering helped. Defend the concepts you feel are important and you’ll never be disappointed by a publicly-paid dastard out to control you.
Life is far more relaxing when you don’t feel compelled to stand up for the spineless. You don’t work for them, and in fact the reverse is true. The reflex to condemn politicians is especially natural for contemporary versions. They’re the worst humans for the job think they can do the best. Every single one possesses a tendency to think Washington can fix anything, which is like proclaiming Nutella by the spoonful can cure your hibernation weight. If you haven’t started noticing patterns yet, the next-best time is now.
A strange thing happens when you stop excusing egregious personal failings, namely the realization that the wholly flawed beings filling offices are too inept to save us with their facile plans. Elected officials are frightened that those who put them there might notice doltish arrogance can’t solve society’s issues. You mean scumbags might not keep their word? The only thing more flawed than their personalities is their belief they can fix our lives.
Keep your alleged help. We’re not even really that broken, especially by comparison. Try not to retch while picturing how Donald freaking Trump treats women as he tries to limit your ability to buy avocados easily since he’s too obtuse to understand what a trade deficit is. Presume anyone who demands your vote wants your wallet and daughter’s dress on the floor. Skepticism based in anger that these stupid jerks want to take all of what’s yours is the only thing that’ll bring down debt.