The media tries to shove a lot of bullshit down your throat. They tell you that you should vote because you have the right, the freedom, to vote and that makes it a responsibility. That logic also would lead me to believe that since I have the right, the freedom, to bear arms I have the responsibility to go out and buy a glock. The whole “you have to vote because you can” line is absolute bullshit. I don’t want you to vote if you don’t care or you are uninformed about what you are voting for. Today I knew that I had to vote, not because Puff Daddy told me to (Vote or Die? please…if Poppa Diddy Pop threatened me I’d knock the Mohawk right off his poser head for ruining Kashmir), but because I felt a strong dislike for a presidential candidate.
I am not a voting virgin. I voted in ’98 and in 2000, and both were pleasant experiences. People in Ohio, however, are a bit more…uhm….what is the word I am looking for? Ah!... psychotic than my fellow Carolinians.
When I arrived at my designated polling place I was instantly accosted by a band of Kerry fanatics. I guess I misled them by being young. Their ring leader came up to me, gave me a button, and thanked me for coming and supporting Kerry. I replied by telling him that only the first part of the “assumption” saying is true, in other words to assume makes an ass out of u. I should have kept my yapper shut.
The Kerry cronies surrounded me and attempted to engage me in a spirited debate. By spirited I mean they accused me of supporting a murdering war monger and blocked me from entering my polling place. Obviously I told them that they were hypocritical fucks spawned by the antichrist and if America meant anything to them they wouldn’t try to bar people’s access to the voting booth. Then I walked through them…roughly.
After I signed in at the voting booth my identity was challenged by a republican challenger person. I had to flash two forms of identification, however, in his defense, he was very polite.
Anyway, I did my democratic duty, not because Puff Daddy told me so mind you, but because I felt I had to. I also felt I had to go give some final advice to the Kerry cronies before I headed home…after all speech is a right, a freedom, and that would cause me to infer that cussing out those fuckers was my responsibility.
