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Originally Posted by lisarea
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Originally Posted by Bree
Not to be morose, or anything - but were we really expecting anything different?
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Oh, my. How hip and cynical of you.
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Cool it Lisa. I didn't read the "A non-voter and proud of it" thread beyond the OP and I'm glad I didn't because that means I'm reading this in an emotionally unclouded state. Given the length of the thread (I just searched) I suspect it got to the very controversial stage.
The truth is Bree is cool. I can say this with some certainty because I've been reading her posts for about four years (since I joined IIDB). She's cool in a whole lot of ways. That she's a carrier for a single meme (voting in national elections is a waste of time) that's very not cool in your (and my) opinion doesn't make her a complete fucking asshole. Bree the person is a fuckload more than her antipathy to voting.
I'm a fucking asshole in this regard. I'm drunk, so I won't admit which very uncool memes I'm a carrier for 'cos its in my little treasure chest of the few things I'm still considering being overt about 'cos I know its not really cool but I suspect all but the most saintly of us are dickheads in one way or another.
As precious as Bree's vote is, the truth is the biggest culprits in the clusterfuck that is contemporary US politics are fundamentalists and the hatemongering fuckholes in charge of the Republican party in the USA right now, not Bree. As angry as you are about the outcome of this election, don't eat your own.
I'm convinced that your ideological enemies had as many, if not more apathy, given the dramatic registration figures for the Democrats in this election. The results of this election are a symptom of the sickness of fundamentalism, ignorance and stupidity in the US of A. Attitudes like Bree's are an exaserbating factor, not the primary cause.