So I voted today, proudly. While I was standing in line to get my newfangled, but not improved ballot, there was a girl in front of me wearing the standard avante garde uniform. Black hair, peasant dress, multicolored bohemian purse with buttons for obscure bands affixed to the strap. You know, dressed just the same as all the other non-conformists her age. It was her first time voting, so the elderly gentleman handing out ballots said, "congratulations."
I was curious about her party affiliation. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I was. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, since I used to look just like her, actually.* You can't judge a book by its cover. I want to know a person's politics before I judge them.
However, I had to stifle a snicker when the kindly gentleman handed her the ballot and announced, "Green." A bolder person than I might have said this:
Luckily, I am not a bold person, so I continued on my merry way, and voted against 81 and 82. Perhaps I'm a little too unfair to this first time voter girl. She actually deserved her congratulations. She managed to drag her ass down to the polls, when
couldn't be bothered with it.
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Good for you, Annie.
However, once you become the successful yuppie that I am predicting, you'll probably opt for permanent absentee ballot status. It is so much easier and less demanding to just have them mail it to you and be able to thiink about it in the quiet of your own surroundings, than stand in line and do it in the polling place.
Plus, where I live, it is too depressing to see all the Dem's lined up to vote as they drive up in their SUV's and wear their earth sandals.
Posted by: shelly at June 07, 2006 01:05 AM (BJYNn)
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"In the meantime keep voting Green. I'd much rather you waste your vote come November than have you vote Democrat, so thanks."
I'm not sure about the whole "wasted vote" thing. If you vote your conscience, however correct or misguided your conscience might be, then I'd argue the vote's not been wasted. To me, a wasted vote is one that's been cast without any thought. Better to avoid voting at all than to vote mindlessly. Jefferson's nightmare, right? The unedumacated, boorish, and irrational?
[NB:
"Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1817. ME 15:116; found
here.]
Just my opinion.
Too bad you don't follow Korean politics. The conservatives won big here in local elections, totally routing the party of lefty Noh Mu Hyon. People are wondering, though, whether the conservatives will still have momentum come the big presidential election next year. The major parties are scandal-prone, and Korean citizens become cynical about their leaders far faster than we Amurricans do about ours.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at June 07, 2006 02:56 AM (TDwc6)
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Hilarious Annika,
I know I've suffered from 'rescue complex' a time or two. An easily identifiable young lefty, brains a smorgasbord of tainted you know what, better to let nature take it's course- they've been warned against us and effort is futile.
Perhaps she'll grow out of it in time to make her first house payment, meanwhile our best hope is David Horowitz.
Posted by: Mike C. at June 07, 2006 03:36 AM (y6n8O)
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There is nothing as grindingly banal than the non-conformist. I on the other hand, even at my worst am totally original.
My uniform of the day? Glad you asked. Motorcycle dome helmet, heavy duty wrap arounds with goggle foam, Columbia OD hiking shorts, topped with a yellow North Shore Brewery T. Yep, I scared the tellers at the bank too.
Posted by: Casca at June 07, 2006 06:25 AM (rEC2k)
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The best thing about the election was the Democrats handing us Phil Angelides. Steve Westley would have been a much tougher challenge for Arnold. As usual, though, the Dems extreme Left prevailed and gave us the first choice of the unions. A special thanks to all those public sector union thugs who rarely work but usually remember to vote.
Posted by: Blu at June 07, 2006 08:07 AM (j8oa6)
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"...people must have thought I got lost on my way to Newport Beach."
Nah. They were just staring because you looked hot.
Posted by: physics geek at June 07, 2006 11:34 AM (Xvrs7)
Posted by: annika at June 07, 2006 05:52 PM (fxTDF)
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My pleasure. Being married doesn't mean that you don't notice.
Posted by: physics geek at June 08, 2006 07:34 AM (Xvrs7)
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