Why I’m About To Lose My Mind

Crystal Mind by Nevit DilmenLike many people, I’ve got a lot of feelings about this election cycle. I have wanted to contribute a post or some links to major media stories about everything leading up to the events of November 6, 2012, but instead of being productive, I have been seriously wigging out.

I thought, if I wrote a post, maybe I would call it “Why I’m Ready To Lose My Shit, For Reals.” Why? Although the early vote returns are strongly in favor of four more years, the votes received so far (according to ABC News) are maybe 10% of the total predicted votes to be placed today. Several prominent media outlets have predicted our President will have a second term, but we can’t take that for granted.

And why? Why can’t we simply say to all and sundry, look at how far we’ve come since January of 2009. We have a long ways to go yet, but that’s no reason to quit now. We need to keep pushing forward to fix all of the problems caused by eight years of Bush The Lesser.

I spent some time today scouting around, looking for some good news to hang on to. I wanted to find a story that told me, look, the majority of American citizens are basically good at heart. They know what’s at stake here and they’ll make sure that we don’t throw away all the progress made in the last four years.

Instead, I found that there are far too many American citizens who think having a psychopathic liar / bully as a president is acceptable. These same people think that his European Vacation this summer, where he basically pissed everybody off in every country he visited, was A-OK groovie ghoulie by them. They think it’s fine that he lies about his income. They’re cool with his astounding more-than-a-lie-a-minute performance in each presidential debate. It doesn’t bother them that he basically says whatever he thinks people want to hear. His lack of a moral center or compass doesn’t concern them.

I bet they think it’s awesome that the current meningitis outbreak (caused by tainted steroids produced by a company in Massachusetts) is basically due to his weakening of regulations when he was governor, and the hits should just keep on coming.

These people think that our President should have “reached across the aisle more” because the Republicans, in their cynical block-every-Obama-initiative strategy, would have let the auto industry crash and burn rather than save it, and they really, REALLY wanted to double down and have our country default on its debt. Yes, of course, we should be encouraging the oligarchs of the wrong wing to screw us, the 99 percent, over even more, we should “reach across the aisle” so they can tell us what we can and cannot do in our homes and do away with women’s reproductive rights and basically throw us right into a 21st century version of “The Help.”

And now I need a nerve pill. The final count cannot come quickly enough to suit me.

Image credit: Crystal Mind by Nevit Dilmen via Wikimedia Commons

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