Why vote?

Finally, I have accessed the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report here in Iceland. Every episode is available online and I love it! Maybe that is why I am getting a little more concerned with the reasons for people over in the US are voting for each candidate. Larry Miller said he was voting for McCain because anyone who is a prisoner of war for 5 years deserves to be president. Idiot! There was a woman on BBC World Service saying she was voting Republican to support Palin but she was going to vote Hillary if she would have won the nomination on the Democratic side. She said it straight out that she was supporting the women!!! What a bunch of bullshit. The politics of a whole country should not be controlled by sex!

And the video on the daily show and all over YouTube of McCain putting the brakes on several deleriously ignorant people at his rallies is a very alarming sight. "I´m afraid of an Obama White House", "I´m afraid, he´s an ARAAAB" etc. Props to the old guy for putting the brakes on as Sarah Palin sure isn´t. Sad, sad state of affairs in America that people are so mislead and can really be manipulated to believe something wrong so strongly.

I am really concerned that if Obama indeed gets awarded the presidency, and he will be voted president, it´s just a matter of whether Bush and his pals manipulate the results (a la Zimbabwe) again, he might be assasinated soon after that. I can´t begin to imagine what would happen to America then but it is a sad state of affairs when that is a real possibility in 2008!

Unfortunately, despite the US being a melting pot of cultures, the racism and segregation most countries have gotten over is still rampant in the US. Just like I mentioned in the last post, there are people devoting a lot of their free time in fighting causes like being against gay marriage and against abortion and against black people when these issues just don´t concern these people. They are forcing their values on others.

It´s also very clear that minorities, especially large groups of African Americans, are superaware of it and call people out on the slightest remark they make. This makes for a tense atmosphere between everyone. Nowhere was that displayed better than in the movie Crash. It was just an accurate account of how things are in many places over there. Even me accusing African Americans of being supersensitive is off limits by most standards in the states. But from my time in the US, I noticed that the only thing that was absolutely, postitively off limits was talking negatively about Jewish people. It´s like the insanity that ensued Mel Gibson´s drunk driving arrest. It seems that the Holocaust gave them immunity from any criticism (not that Gibson was right or anything. He was just drunk for God´s sake)until the end of times. Political correctness has become some bullshit where nothing is allowed.