I’ve seen variations of this meme over and over and I can’t believe this scenario is even up for comparison but, what’s worse, is many who attempt to validate this meme don’t even care that the voting system is a total cluster fuck in the first place. Let’s talk about the meme but before I begin, I want to make it perfectly clear how important I think voting is (in a fair system) but I also want to make it clear that I don’t think voting is as important as food; unless you are voting which tastes better: Pepsi or Coke…that vote was critically important to society when I was a kid. But I digress. I hear it over and over, if they can go to the store, they can go vote. Well yeah, they can, but should they you moron? Many of the same blowhards who make this argument also refuse to wear a mask and tell those who are afraid to “just stay home!” (Insert thinking emoji) Let’s go back to the crux of the meme: voting or food…is this really up for discussion? I mean, seriously…we are doing this? A 80-year-old woman who doesn’t have anyone to help her and is scared to death must go out and vote because she grabbed a basket of food at 6am during “vulnerable population” hours? Are you fucking kidding me? I can’t even speak about this idiotic equivalency anymore.
Now, for the real problem; we let mail-in voting draw our attention from the real issues with voting: the electoral college, gerrymandering, and a lack of campaign finance reform. Until we can fix those, nothing else really matters because our “democracy” is already at a disadvantage. Forget about ever having a 3rd party win if we maintain the status-quo. It seems like the vast majority of us are perfectly fine watching the Red Sox play the Yankees year after year…and that’s all you get…forever. Now, I am a Yankee fan but even I get a little tired of it by 18th game of the regular season. Many of us are at that point; the point of “who is the least worst?” If you watched the Yankees and Red Sox play over and over…and over, you’ll get to the point of saying, “I hope the Red Sox win tonight because the bat boy looks like he did a really nice job ironing his jersey.” Is that what we want? Trump is a dangerous man and total embarrassment and Biden is a career politician who is also a total embarrassment. There’s your choices…have fun? I can’t in good conscience vote for either of these imbeciles. Ah, but I don’t have to. Why is that, you say? Because I live in a safe State where my vote doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. The same goes for you if you live in about 40 select States and it’s all due to the electoral college. Oh, you are worried about some ballots which may change the popular vote by .0001%? What about the millions of votes that don’t count; the actual votes of legitimate voters? Oh, I’ve heard it before…”My vote won’t be worth as much if the electoral college is removed.” What about my vote? Worth as much? How about fucking ZERO?! That’s what my vote is worth. At least the Presidential election isn’t cherry picked from voters in a redrawn voting district that benefits the incumbent in most cases. Just take a quick look at this congressional district from the most highly functioning state in the union:
This makes total sense, right? This voting district was drawn totally arbitrarily. You have a problem with mail in voting? Let’s shake up this whole system to make it fair and truly democratic and if you have a problem with mail in voting after that, we’ll talk. My guess is you won’t. Politicians…and I mean all of them…will be scrambling for their political lives once they know they can truly be held accountable. Money shouldn’t vote, geography shouldn’t vote…but actual people should…and be counted!
Electoral Shock 