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[rivka]

I don't even want to look at the news today.

I am burned out. I am tired of being a member of a party that is so totally fucking incompetent at standing up for itself. We pissed away the opportunity handed us in the 2008 election. We were unable or unwilling to make use of the mandate we had. We spent two years bending over backward trying not to offend anyone, knuckling under to the fake offense generated by the right-wing media, and utterly failing to make our case, in anything approaching a compelling way, to the American people.

I. Am. Tired.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people who are saying, "I was here when Jerry Brown was last governor, and he was awful! We lost jobs!" Um, I was also here when he was governor, and there was, like now, a national recession, and jobs were lost everywhere. Governors can't fix recessions.

What I did do, this time, and haven't before, was to vote more third-party. I tend not to do so when I'm afraid it'll help someone I don't like, but this time, I definitely said, "Oh, screw it."