"Welcome back," I say to myself as I sit down to write my first post in a few months. The reason for my absence is that the US election has been dominating the news for so long that there hasn't been much substantive news for me to be angry about. See, when I need inspiration for posting here, I go to my favorite news sites and wait for the idiocy and pig-ignorance to wash over me until I'm hopping mad about something. It usually takes the form of some article pontificating on a problem whose solution or answer seems obvious to me. Favorites have been why birthrates have been falling, why our economies have been stagnating and similar topics. The problem I have during an election cycle is that there is so much low hanging fruit (of the ignorance and stupidity variety) and so much hyperbole and histrionics that it isn't fun to point out how dumb most of it is. In case you haven't noticed, politicians lie, cheat and steal in order to get into office and then ignore all the promises they made (at least to the voting public, if not their donors list) while trying to get into office. This makes every debate, every speech and all that political spectacle pointless. Your best bet, as a voter, is to do a little research ahead of time about party affiliation and candidates' stated positions on the issues and then hope for the best. But watching the two year presidential election cycle like some sort of god-awful reality tv show is just an exercise in masochism. So, now that it's over, I will try to find more substantive stories in the news to be angry about so that I can write illuminating posts.
If you are at all wondering about my personal politics, I didn't like either of the two mainstream candidates and didn't vote for either of them. If it wasn't for my state and local elections, I wouldn't have bothered going to the polls. But state and local elections matter and have far greater impact on our daily lives than their low voter turnout implies they do, so I felt it was important to put in my two cents despite the garbage headliners. But beyond that, I wont waste any space on the internet adding to the plethora of articles pooping on Hillary and the Donald. It's been done to absolute death and at this point I'm not sure there's much more to say. I'll leave the continuing idiocy to other news sources who are far more experienced with histrionics than yours truly.
I don't know about you, but I am truly looking forward to the day that I open the front page of a newspaper and see that it contains no new stories about either of the candidates for president. It will be a small breath of fresh air in a stale and tired news cycle.
