Election Fatigue
Originally published at thoughts from an empty head. You can comment here or there.
I've had enough.
There are 432 days until a new boss takes over, and I have had it. I'm tired of the incessant nitpicking of insignificant foibles, the fluffing of stupid stories that have no bearing on the job at hand, the stupidity of various pundits passing themselves as "serious" people while peddling their idiot talking points, the spinelessness of politicians in general, the idiocy of the system that I find myself in - all of it, really. More and more every day, I find myself hitting the "Mark All Items As Read" button on my feed reader, and not simply because I want to talk to Rebecca (which is still a pretty good reason, truth be told). I've pretty much had it up to here with the whole circus.
You know what my favorite movie is right now, especially whenever I see yet another freaking campaign ad?
Understand, now: I'm a news junkie. I can spend hours doing nothing more than dissecting stories and finding connections in everyday happenings. That's what used to be considered, at least by me, a "good time". But I can't take it anymore. I really can't. CNN has been off my radar for months now. FOX is a joke. MSNBC would be regularly confused by me with CNBC (which itself is a pretty useless network to anyone not married to their jobs) if it wasn't for Olbermann, and even his show is beginning to lose its luster. The Republicans seem to love playing "Who Wants to Have a Gay Sex Scandal?" when they're not busy ripping apart everything they claim to love, and the Democrats seem only too happy to bend over at every chance for the most hated president in recent memory.
I realize that I'm not the first to note that this election "year" seems to have begin a tad early, but really, I can't take it anymore. I honestly don't want to see one more story or article about this stupid excuse of an exercise in "representative democracy".
Count me out.
UPDATE: I for one welcome our new robot overlords. :lol:
