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November 03, 2004

Dealing With That Special Post-Election Hangover

...and I'm not talking about the bottle of vodka I polished off last night to cope with, and now we arrive at the subject of the post, my post-polling malaise. In speaking with Mesh last night, we realized that the choice between the lesser of two weevils unsettled us much more deeply than we thought. I spent my morning like I had my last month: vacillating between anger at that-hideous-callous-liar and his children-killing crew; disgust at the featherweighted-morality of tweedledum-and-tweedledee. By ten I had decided to stick it to Cheney and vote Kerry; by noon I needed to stand up to the terrorists and give Bush a mandate to continue the reconstruction of Iraq with minimum interruption. As I drove to the polling place I flip-flopped again. When all along I should have listened to my heart.

My old roommate had an apt poster for this moment: "Cthulu in '96: Why choose the lesser evil?"

Shakespeare, as a high school lit teacher burned into me, stated, "To thine own self be true."

I should not have voted for the best of the popular choices. I should have voted Badnarik. He best (and that's a stretch) matches my personal views. Never again will I sacrifice personal convictions to a desire to be relevant.

As a bonus discussion, is anyone else weirded out over which world leaders have expressed congrats to Bush? We've got Allawi, of course, but also Putin and Berlusconi. Yes, that's Putin of the "Russian people are weak" responses to terrorism. When did the Poles, Italians and Mother Russia become bff with us? The article also goes on to note my chief reason for choosing who to root for last night.

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