Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY?!
What's wrong with the country was obvious long before any election results came in.
Citizens of the nation that fancies itself an exporter of democracy were waiting 5, 6, 7 hours to vote. To vote.
No media panic about this.
No pundit outrage.
No public outcry.
Because, after all, few or none of those people drove up to the voting station in a Lincoln Navigator.
If you saw it happening in Albania, its significance would be obvious: This is a country in which the grasp of and commitment to democracy is so thin that the basic procedures look like they were designed by Bozo the Clown.
If you have to wait three minutes at the video rental store, you get antsy. If you see people forced to wait hours to vote, and wait days or weeks for their votes to be counted...
...pass me the hickory sticks, Survivor's coming on...
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