The College Connoisseur

Why I Voted Independent

My fear is our entire political system will inevitably fall into a never ending death spiral – denoted by the constant banter of problems with exclusion of answers or solutions. While my tendencies of elections past lean Democratic – or the new Socialist Party of America, I’m open to frank discussion removed from Jesus or Mohammad.

Green technology is a drain on national resources? How about retooling our beleaguered auto and manufacturing industries to service wind towers and electric cars? The thought that green ideas should be relegated to leftist, Marxist psychos with a pension for social reform and free money is incredibly stupid.

Likewise, wanton spending of public money on poorly defined projects and partisan politics does not seem to be in our best interest. Granted, FDR was, in my opinion, successful with his massive public works programs of the 1940’s. However, I feel those programs were based in the realm of hard work under efficient systems to further our nation’s infrastructure and not placed with lexicon like “pork barrels.”

Could it all simply be solved with a renewed sense of purpose? If we don’t get our kicks from oil, would it not be sensible to invent another industry for us to tax the fuck out of? I feel as though we could benefit from less Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly and instead meet locally to discuss the issue that involve ourselves.

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”

George Washington
Washington’s Farewell Address 1796

Now, here’s a sophomoric and irrelevant political cartoon:

We're screwed.