Rampant Exclamations

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Being only recently inducted into the hallowed halls of Responsible Adulthood, I’ve only just begun my missions to Become Informed about Real Issues. This includes, of course, politics and its subsequent mullarkey, a subject I am not well-versed in. Having said that, and with full awareness that I am not a man that one might go to for in-depth political analysis..(are those enough ass-covering caveats?)..I must say that our political process seems frakked to hell.

When I hear from older people that our generation doesn’t care about what’s going on in the world, that we are content to coast along not paying attention while Important Issues are happening all around us, I usually take offense. But come on, could you blame us if it were true?! Every time we start to think we can make a difference, that we can count for something, we bear witness to another situation that shows us, clearly, we do not. At this moment I’m referring to the situation Democrats find themselves in, where it is a near certainty that, instead of every American’s vote counting, only a few hundred “superdelegate” votes will decide the nominee. Not only that, but they don’t even have to stick with how their respective states voted, or how Americans in general voted! Nay! Even if, say, Obama went to the convention with more popular votes and more delegates, as seems likely, the “superdelegates” can decide to say, “Screw what the majority of American Democrats want in a leader, us few prefer Hillary!” And we’re kicked in the balls.

Again, I am not hip to what I am sure are the very complicated reasons for such a system, but to the layman it seems like a really stupid and completely un-democratic solution, and makes this young whippersnapper feel less and less like the power is in my hands. This is but the latest example for my theory that American politics is one big clusterfrak..(hence the “pt.1″ in the title, “pt.2″ is next week)..and is another reason why, if our generation really is looking apathetic, you can’t necessarily blame us for it. If I went to a restaurant and ordered Chicken Parmesan, it would be hard to get excited when I knew that, without warning, I could be given Sauerkraut instead.

And if I’m allergic to cabbage? Well that’s all right; I’ll only have it force fed to me for 4-8 years.

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