Who Cares Who's On the Ballot?

I began voting over 30 years ago. I talked myself into it. I said, it doesn't matter if neither are perfect, one is always worse than the other. Lately though, it is getting harder to buy into the hoax. Lately, both parties are looking pretty bad.

Tea Partyism is no choice. It is nothing more than fascism wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. It is like "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" ~ funny, until they smile and you see their pointed teeth. I have to say, though, that Political Correctism isn't any better. It is just as dogmatic and just as mind-numbing as Tea Partyism. Both groups are always predictable in an over-medicated sort of way. Both groups are corporatists. Both groups are all black or white, with no room for subtle variations. Both groups have become extremists.

I've never been an Independent. One party has always looked better than the other to me. But now, when I see one side lambaste the other in the headlines, or in an online forum, they look like dingalings to me no matter which side they're on.

I used to say, I feel sorry for the working class Republican, who believes that by identifying with wealth and power, it will rub off on him. Democrats, I thought, were the party of the working man. And they were. But when all the blue collar jobs went to Asia, they had to get a new shtick. They became the "Say yes to anything so long as it isn't a white heterosexual male" party.

I can't live in either of these dream worlds. I have too much perspective, and I read too much, and I remember too well. I may have voted for the last time. Think they'll miss me?