Radiohead "Electioneering," live 1997 posted by thismightbewrong on YouTube.

It's a fitting song for Super Tuesday, don't you think? I saw electioneering all over the 818 today. Down on Ventura Boulevard, the Clinton and Obama camps had staked corners. They have been set up there for days now. Ron Paul stickers were plastered over the bumpers of many a car stuck in today's gridlock. It's interesting, I heard on the news that pretty much everybody except for Ron Paul has a chance to win California, but as far as election bumper stickers, posters and the like go, I have only seen Clinton, Obama and Paul around Los Angeles. Well, I noticed quite a few Giuliani stickers for a while, but since he's out of the race, it's a moot point.

I voted. Felt awkward in the booth re-reading propositions and realizing that nothing makes sense and if the City wants more money, the City can take it out of Rocky Degadillo's car allowance. I'm a frustrated citizen, angry at City and State politicians who act like teenagers with mom's credit card, infuriated with a federal government that acts like overprotective parents who feel obligated to read our diaries and who is convinced that war is definitely the answer. I'm sick of a mainstream news outfits that are so clearly in love with war that they either ignored or slaughtered the two truly anti-war candidates (Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul) and, at the same time, pumped up the drama of Britney and her ilk so as to make everyone forget that our people are dying on a daily basis for some non-existent reason that nearly everyone (most importantly, those who sent us to war in the first place) has forgotten. Oh, and top of that, our money is worthless, health insurance and pharmaceutical companies are running the world's biggest scam (really, why can't I just negotiate the price with my doctor?) and this supposedly capitalistic society we live in is just a big collusion between big government and big business.

This, dear reader, is why I voted. And considering how close the election is running this year, it looks like I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Labels: Musical Interlude, Politics