I've never claimed to be the hippest kid on the block. Infact, there's bout a 83% chance I'm whiter than Michael Steele. But even I know what it means not to care. Especially when it comes to presidencies, and crazy people. And for some reason it's evil to have a president speak to kids on TV but it's perfectly okay to read them "My Pet Goat" during a national crisis.


So, My question is. Why do I not care? I'll be honest. One of the reasons I'm not here anymore is cause the daily rig-amoral of this is tiring. I view it as pointless. We're in September, the next elections is in November of next year, that is of course on a national level, when plenty of local and primary elections can occur between now and then. So why is it important what the opinion polls say? Tell me this, what was Bush's opinion polls in August 01? Pretty damn low. How the hell then did republicans, and Bush win the subsequent two elections? Oh that's right, something unforeseeable (maybe) happened which turned public opinion in their favor radically.

So who says this won't happen now? Well We have 13 long months to go. And it seems that we've stirred up a hornets nest of crazy. Anything can go down. all it takes is a botched assassination attempt, and I'll guarantee the independents will rally behind Obama. key-word botched. though a successful one will do basically the same thing, but in a much much more depressing way.

So back to my point, why don't I care? cause I spent two years watching this crap, when I had the same level of control. Maybe it's Apathy. Maybe it's "My guys in, and i trust an at least basic level of competency". Maybe it's loosing progressive Radio in South Florida. Maybe it's the fact that I've got several hard classes that demand a lot of my free time and energy. Or maybe it's like most things in my life, I get interested in it, play around for a year or two, before it disappears into the back of my mind to resurface in a day or so.

I don't really know what the point of this post is. It's strange in a lot of ways. between justify why I'm apathetic, to providing reasons as to my apathy. (two different things) I wonder what this means. Do i honestly not care about the country. I consider myself a progressive liberal. I like social progress, equality and all that jazz. but i despise most left wing activist groups. Where the right uses fear and hate, the left uses quilt and shame. Maybe that's my ultimate source of Apathy in politics. It all just rings the same and hollow to me. The twisting of facts into propaganda to suit a political ideology instead of trying to find a better solution for tomorrow.