Came home last night to this poorly photocopied double-sided convoluted directive on how to vote. It was bundled with campaign propaganda (I’ll give a 20 dollar prize to anyone who truly can’t guess which candidate’s).
I wish that campaign would be honest about what it’s doing: insultingly pandering to a working class demographic by exaggerating feelings of empowerment. Any person who can’t face the low difficulty level of voting probably shouldn’t. Any person who didn’t want to register when they were 17 years and six months old but now has a sudden urgency should ask themselves a few serious questions.
This is the double standard that transcends politics and separates humans. It’s the group that wants to be spoon fed the fruit of knowledge in a little cobbler dish versus the group that bakes a new pie while one is still cooling on the windowsill.
It’s the public library model. Those who weren’t GIVEN a proper education have the same access to the same books in the same public libraries as those who GIVE themselves a proper education. But as more people are conditioned to laziness and entropy, the library becomes less crowded for the willing.
There are people who always need to complain shortsightedly about their opposition and circumstances rather than blaming themselves for everything wrong in their lives. Forever on the frontlines, doing battle against the affirmative. A million meek, whining masses will never be as strong as a handful of people who don’t need an instruction manual on living.
In a couple weeks I won’t be bothered if the entire country still feels disenfranchised; at least they won’t wake me up at nine am or put trash on my doorknob.
