Things will not be ruined forever.
Riding your hopes and fears for America on the back of the President is like hoping the next issue of People Magazine will be a life changing experience because Bono is on the cover.
There is no need to freak-out or whine about the past eight years, and four more years of Republican dominance will not destroy us. It will likely just annoy people like myself with more status-quo, and one old guy talking in absolutes about very dynamic things.
Likewise, there is nothing to fear about Obama for Republicans. If he wins, Congress will likely become Republican in a couple of years. This country will have what it really needs if the election goes either way, which is a cooperation between the parties. Extremists lose when the government works for its people instead of some party agenda.
I just want to remind my friends and family that it is alright to not freak-out, and to realize that as much as you don’t agree with certain policies that certain people believe in, you are getting played if you drink all of this flesh-burning political Kool-Aid. These candidates and our media have the most to gain when you freak-the-fuck-out over the election. You have very little to gain.
Taxes will rise and fall and still suck. Abortions will continue to happen. Wars will be had. Terrorism will occur. Our government will spend more than it takes in. The poor will get help from the wealthy. Guns will be legal. We will continue to eat the Earth at an alarming rate. No President will change these things, because they are American realities.
Where we should be most invested is our local elections, and our level of community service. Presidents do not run our life or our community. They do not come into our houses and force us to live a certain way. We will continue to run our own lives and determine our own level of prosperity.
I smoked pot daily for years, and no President came into my house and told me to stop. I was the one that had to figure out my head was oatmeal, and it’s the same way for other drug abusing Americans.
We are in control of the future. We are the people who build a better country by donating time and/or money to kids or the arts or the disabled, by working stupid jobs we hate, and being examples for our kids. And our local officials, they actually have an interest in those retards/kids/bad jobs succeeding. Look at their policies as much as the Presidential policies.
Bono isn’t going to shape us into a better People Magazine. His music sucks shit, and he annoys the fuck out of me. Especially the Alaskan Bono.