pre-D-day

...and here we roll around to November.  Time keeps rolling by and I'm still sitting here in mostly the same spot.

Election day is tomorrow and I still haven't even made up my mind if I'm going to bother voting this year; I imagine that I will, but I'm pretty unenthusiastic about the whole thing since I'm in such a thoroughly red state and my vote counts for exactly zilch (especially in my new county).  To be honest, I'm not convinced that Romney might not actually be a little better off on America as a whole than another 4 years of Obama.  I support him, I think his overall platform is far superior to that of Romney ...but perhaps a single-term black president might not be so bad for a start since (at least here in Texas) what would have been considered tinfoil-hat wearing nuttery ten years ago is actually mainstream and an Obama win would likely throw gasoline on that fire.  A Romney win would at least force people to step back and look at how fucking nutty they've let themselves become.

What's going to happen is going to happen no matter who wins.  We have a pretty huge segment of the population that actually seems to think the world ended four years ago and the Democrats simply haven't noticed.  THAT PERCEPTION is one of the main things keeping the economy from righting itself, and a Romney win would at least assuage that.  If Obama wins again, I figure things will work out then as well ...a screaming tantrum can only last for so long.  I'm simply dumbfounded that even though effectively nothing of what the far right predicted an Obama win in 2008 would lead to has actually happened, they still stubbornly cling to the fantasy that he's a closet terrorist and he only needs a second term for his nefarious plans to come to fruition.  I don't think the tantrum can last another four years before it finally just implodes under the weight of it's own dire predictions that simply aren't happening.

Either way, I think recovery will happen (...or total collapse; I guess it could go either way).  I sincerely doubt which side wins will make much difference in the long run.  If Romney wins, it'll "prove" that Obama policies were a failure (even though they set a framework for what was going to happen regardless).  If Obama wins, the recovery will only be because the Republicans were able to thwart his evil master plan.  Whomever wins this go-round will probably win 2016.

I don't have a horse in the race concerning Roe v Wade; ethically I'm pro-life but realistically pro-choice.  The only thing I know for sure is that if it ever gets reversed, it'll be the Democrats who do it; loss of that wedge-issue would be the death of the GOP.  Women's rights are a non-issue; nothing's going to change no matter who wins.

Since I'm permanently disabled, I guess I'm one of the 47% of the "leeches" that the more hateful elements of the right-wing talk about.  Ironic that it was my work that told me I didn't have any business working first, and it just took the gov't 5 years to agree with them.  I DO have a horse in that race ...finding a job would probably be pretty easy with my knowledge and background; keeping it would be next to impossible.  I tried for three years and was thanked for the effort by shafting me.  Excuse me for having the first hand experience of Uncle Sam being more helpful than the private sector in that matter.  Since there still wasn't any new funding in the programs to help out people like me under Obama, I can hardly sing praises to him on that front.  Living in Texas, I can't fault him for it either though.

Foreign policy is mostly identical with the exception that Romney is slightly more likely to get us into another war.  We'll get through that too.

I just know I'm ready for it to be over with.