Voting used to be something I looked forward to. Now, since NC took straight party voting off the ballot and you have to mark each individual politician's name, it feels like I am punching a goddamn time clock...and I'm not that enthused about having only conservadems ever running in my state. So, not only do I have shit choices, but I gotta show ID then mark each one of their right wing fucking names and fill in the bubble. To be honest, I hate voting now. I still do it because I was raised with a sense of duty to dammit vote against the Republicans at every opportunity INCLUDING extra elections for things like bonds for parks for rugrats to play in and votes for liquor by the drink at bars in my county. That happened in the late 1990s. That's how shitty and backasswards this supposedly solid Democratic (Dixiecrats really) county is.
With some Democrats though, I have to honestly ask, am I really voting against the Republicans? The conservadems make damn sure the Republicans get exactly what they want. So, it feels like I gotta not only show ID and mark each individual name now, but I do it begrudgingly. I wish a good solid Democrat would come along and not be a goddamn pro Republican asshole. In my state, that ain't happening. The absolute closest I ever got was Elaine Marshall. I like her. That's it. They rest are Conservadems or are in elections in other cities where I can't vote for them.
I don't even bother to put my I Voted stickers on my guitar cases any more. I used to be so excited to put those on my guitar cases. Now, I'm thinking about all the Goof Off I am going to have to use to get the gummy crap off of the cases, because I've voted for far to many jackasses with a D behind their name. I have quite a lot of stickers on eight guitar cases (well, really 7, because I haven't stickered up the case for my Jackson at all yet) from voting straight party D in every single election since I turned 18 back in 1988, until they changed the law to make it even harder to hold my nose. I might pass out holding my nose that damn long, then there are the supposed "nonpartisan" races for various judges and other wastes of money I have to research only to find they ALL campaigned on how devout anti abortion pro death penalty Christian they are. 
Now, I have to mark each of these right wing assholes' names and it feels worse each and every time.
The more I think about it, the more I realize I may end up being one of those people who falls by the wayside and says fuck it. I'm not really voting against the Republicans, am I? Conservative Democrats make damn sure the Republicans get EXACTLY what they want. I'm really voting for Democrats who won't just do the right thing and join the damn Republicans they agree with so much. And I despise it. The country has already gone so far off the deep end, to hell in a hand basket, by now, that it cannot be saved from itself. It's fourth world. It's not even good enough to be third world. It's retail hell with all the jobs everywhere else in the world...and we are supposed to smile and tell customers to have a nice day and because it's the stupid fucking Bible Belt, tell them Merry CHRISTmas because they are so goddamn oppressed that they got to vote to make sure I never got rights when I was young enough to still look for Mrs. Right (she'd have to be Left for me, but still, the woman I could talk into spending her life with me, maybe, she'd have to be mighty damn special and have the patience of a saint). But THEY are so goddamn oppressed.
Yes, my breaking point is well on its way. Fuck it. We'll end up with the same damn thing no matter which way we vote. The Democratic Party can't wait to belly up and piss a beta dog submissive puddle of obedient servitude to the worst of the worst right wing moneyed interests. We don't fucking matter. That is the truth. It's all a popularity contest between people who don't even have a clue what it is like in the real world known as this declining America that doesn't even bother to fucking follow the Constitution any more. Cruz should never have been allowed to run. All we have fucking heard for 7 fucking years so far is Kenya Kenya Kenya. Yet, we aren't supposed to complain about Cruz and the Democratic Party leadership will NOT press the issue at all. They will roll over like always looking to get their bellies rubbed by the richest of the rich, trying their best to please those right wing lunatics. I don't get it. I can't pretend I'm ok with that. I can't pretend I believe any of the bullshit nonsense I get told on this site every time I mention the truth. If you lay down with nasty ass Republicans, you are going to wake up in a shitty Vitter diaper in a public restroom covered in elephant shit your own piss. Don't expect the rest of us to pretend it doesn't stink and don't expect me to forgive assholes who hate gay people all day long and inspire others to hate gay people even more, which is what the Democratic Party has done for ages now. Until they licked their fingers and stuck them in the air and saw it was "safe" to say they don't think gay people should be outright tortured, but still shouldn't have real equal rights, then later realized they could say they don't agree with it, but we should have rights, which is still two faced bullshit, the Democratic Party told us to STFU for ages. I'm sick of the whole damn thing. I'm supposed to vote for those two faced fair weather assholes? I might do it, but for how much longer I don't know. I feel like I am voting against myself. And I hate it more every goddamn time.
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