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I don\u2019t think I really became that cognitive about presidential elections until 2004, when it was John Kerry versus George W. Bush. I never really cared, nor do I really have that much care today about politicians, but it\u2019s safe to say that when I turned 18 in 2000, I was still in a state of not giving a shit about the world, and didn\u2019t bother voting then.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t vote in 2004 when it was John Kerry versus George W. Bush, because I drug my feet after moving down to Atlanta and didn\u2019t bother registering to vote in the state of Georgia. I didn\u2019t vote in 2008 when it was Barack Obama versus\u00a0Sarah Palin<\/span>John McCain, because I was just plain negligent, and I was working freelance, and honestly the two hours of wages I would have lost out on to take time to vote were more important to me than voting in a state that would win red pretty much no matter what.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maybe this year will be the first year that I actually vote, since I\u2019m actually registered to vote in the state of Georgia now, after living here for nine years, I have a full-time job where now I\u2019m looking to shave hours off the clock wherever I can, and Jen and I carpool to work, so if she decides to vote, then I\u2019ll be voting as well. Whom I\u2019d vote for, I\u2019m still kind of undecided on, but even if I did know, I wouldn\u2019t make it public, because frankly there\u2019s real no point.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the fact that I hadn\u2019t voted in any of the last three elections I\u2019d been eligible to have voted in, I haven\u2019t been ambivalent to the behaviors of people all around me when it comes to politics.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s been me growing up and opening my eyes to it, or perhaps it\u2019s the collective aging and adaptation of the times.\u00a0 Probably a combination of both frankly, but opposing political views seem to have become more fervent, resentful, and more volatile over the passing of the last twelve years.<\/span><\/p>\n This has been no more prevalent anywhere than on peoples\u2019 cars.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, bumper stickers.\u00a0Vehicles have become the perfect well, vehicles, for people to passive-aggressively display the political stance without actually having to engage another human being in what would ultimately lead to a heated discussion, whether or not they were in agreement or disagreement.\u00a0 Before an election, bumper stickers have been the seemingly most used platform to push and display someone\u2019s agenda.\u00a0 And after an election, bumper stickers became the platform in which supporters of the winner would gloat over \u201ctheir\u201d victory, and where those who oppose would slap bumper stickers of disapproval for the next four-to-eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t vote in 2000, but I was still well aware of who the candidates were, because cars all around Virginia wore either \u201cBUSH\/CHENEY\u201d or \u201cGORE\/LIEBERMAN\u201d stickers on them.\u00a0 But that was really it; after the election, peoples\u2019 cars either still had Bush\/Cheney on it, and those who leaned to the left quietly removed their Al Gore stickers.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2004, it was more of the same; BUSH\/CHENEY versus KERRY\/EDWARDS.\u00a0 Being the font savant I am\/was, I remember like it was yesterday, the fact that Bush\u2019s stickers were in all caps like a militant luddite sitting at a computer for the first time, screaming, while John Kerry\u2019s stickers were more relaxed, and sophisticated looking with a serif font.\u00a0 No matter, we all know what happened, and Bush won his second term.\u00a0 But this apparently was the year that I noticed that where there were no acceptant winners or losers.\u00a0 Proud Bush supporters naturally kept their stickers on their cars, but this was when I noticed that people started putting those \u201cW \u2013 THE PRESIDENT\u201d black stickers on their cars.\u00a0 It kind of came off as arrogant and gloating in my opinion, as if it were like a sticky piece of vinyl saying \u201cfuck you, my guy is the winner.\u201d\u00a0 But the thing is that those who opposed Bush didn\u2019t take it laying down either, and it wasn\u2019t long before F THE PRESDIENT spoof stickers, and other anti-Bush propaganda stickers seemed to emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n Somewhere along the line, I\u2019m guessing around this time, presidential elections stopped being about people really caring about the state of the country, and having legitimate concerns about the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s turned more into a MY GUY, NOT YOUR GUY mentality, and I really question the basis of peoples\u2019 decisions when making their votes.\u00a0 Yes, this is presumptuous of me to say, but it\u2019s how I feel, silly as it sounds.\u00a0 But it really does feel like people care more about their choice \u201cwinning,\u201d versus someone else\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a lot like a sports mentality; when the Super Bowl comes around, you have fans of the Patriots, and you have fans of the Giants.\u00a0 And lots of people who simply don\u2019t care.\u00a0 But there are large contingents of each teams\u2019 fanbase that aren\u2019t rooting so much for their team\u2019s victory because it would make them happy, but so that they could gloat and rub it into the faces of the losing side.<\/span><\/p>\n 2008 was the most fascinating year, with the long and short of it being because the fact that Barack Obama is a black man.\u00a0 Racist America emerged its ugly head during this time, and propaganda may as well have had stickers just saying \u201cTHE BLACK GUY\u201d or \u201cTHE WHITE GUY.\u201d\u00a0 From an artistic standpoint, Obama blew McCain away with his litany of stickers and propaganda that promised changes and hope, and all these other false promises, while McCain went with the tried and true boring vanilla rectangular stickers.<\/span><\/p>\n But 2008 wasn\u2019t really so much the election where people supported whom they preferred, it seemed so much more like people slandered whom they didn\u2019t like.\u00a0 It\u2019s like people didn\u2019t care if McCain won, as long as the black guy didn\u2019t get in office, and it was okay if Obama won as long as Sarah Palin didn\u2019t get to occupy the White House.\u00a0 After the election, there was hardly any delay with the anti-Obama propaganda, and to this day and the upcoming 2012 election, there\u2019s way more anti-Obama messages out there than there is any actual alternative option.<\/span><\/p>\n I touched on this not long ago<\/a>, when I saw a truck with an anti-Obama sticker on it, but the thing is that is people don\u2019t like Obama, who would they rather have?\u00a0 It\u2019s like the dilemma of having rats, and releasing snakes into your home to get rid of them all; the immediate solution is nice, but the long term repercussions of the action might not always have been well thought of.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, off the top of my head, I don\u2019t know who Mitt Romney\u2019s running mate is.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 But I can recollect at least four different anti-Obama sticker designs I\u2019ve seen on the road over the last few months.\u00a0 To a large part of America, I\u2019m pretty sure would rather vote for Zombie Adolf Hitler and reinstate the extermination of Jews, homosexuals and minorities if it meant getting Barack Obama out of office.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I think this upcoming election is kind of a wash anyway.\u00a0 I think Mitt Romney is a typical goon politician, with a long history of shady fund-raising, screwing the little guy, and hypocrisy, while Barack Obama has championed all sorts of change and optimistic rhetoric, but the fact of the matter is that life sure as shit doesn\u2019t feel any better than it did before Obama got into office; gas prices are still retarded high, my land value is a joke, and I still know way too many talented and educated people suffering joblessness and dwindling hope.<\/span><\/p>\n Putting it that way, I guess championing for the winning side so that you can gloat seems about the only thing left in these elections, after all.\u00a0 Ain\u2019t that some shit?\u00a0 Talk about talking yourself towards a conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t think I really became that cognitive about presidential elections until 2004, when it was John Kerry versus George W. 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