11.06.12
Taibbi whines
“Can’t we all just get along?” whines Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone:
We should be confident that whoever wins has our collective best interests at heart, even if we don’t agree with his or her ideology, the same way we reflexively assume that the pilot of any plane we board doesn’t want to fly us into a mountain.
But we don’t make that assumption about our politicians anymore. We don’t believe the other side would have our backs even in an emergency. People today on both sides are genuinely terrified of a wrong outcome in this election. They’ve been whipped into a state of panic – people everywhere are freaking out and muttering to themselves and firing off vitriolic emails. That’s incredibly sad. As a member of the media, I feel sick about it. I think all of us in this business owe America a hug, or something . . . All of this has gone too far, and man, we’d better pray this doesn’t end in a 2000-style mess tonight. Year 2000 America seems like a veritable Buddha of perfect composure compared to the already-terminally-pissed, stress-crazed populace that has been dragged to the final lap of this terrible contest. Like crime victims, we deserve closure. Can we at least have that?
No. Shove it. Never been quite up to it after the high point of describing Goldman Sachs as a giant vampire squid poking its blood funnel into the face of humanity.
Christoph Hechl said,
November 6, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Your country has been polarized and an incredible amount of arms is in private hands.
These two facts alone are enough to do everything one can to deescalate.
In my opinion the quote “elections don’t change anything, otherwise they’d be forbidden” holds true.
The US is reigned by capitalism and Obamas reelection doesn’t change that.
You yourself have on this blog never even mentioned, that other parties exist in your country, probably for fear that democrat voters are more likely to think about their choice and thus would weaken Obamas chances.
But a two party system imho doesn’t offer a real choice if it exists for a longer period of time. Even less so if it gets trampled on:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/06/roundup-voter-irregularities-2/
http://www.gregpalast.com/democracy-now-ohio-wrong-ballots-for-black-voters-investigation-uncovers-thousands-at-risk-of-ballot-loss/
I think Taibbi is right, when he thinks about conciliation rather than fighting it to the grave. Especially when you remind yourself, that you would have to fight against intellectually challenged white supremacists who live in selfmade bunkers.