Revisionism Watch 2008: Progress Report
By Ravenhawk | February 12, 2008
For those missing the purpose of the Revisionism Watch, check the Intro. With Super Tuesday and a majority of the state’s primaries already held, many are looking ahead to November, unsure who will be on the ballot. While it has indeed been a cut-throat battle, the main-stream media wants to paint a picture of an epic tie between two equals.
It has been somewhat hard, through all the battle over-hype to track down the actual numbers behind the potential nominees. The best play-by-play I’ve found so far is The Blog From Another Dimension. They have a good overview of the way things have been playing out so far.
Overall the media has like to portray Obama as being the underdog, who is barely fighting against Clinton’s experienced hand. In reality, his charisma and strong call for a change in the corrupt government as it stands has brought quite the uprising since his campaign began. While at the beginning he was an underdog, for sure, since then his campaign has battered and surpassed that of the Clinton camp. Now, with Obama ahead in states and delegates, Clinton is panicking. She’s fired her campaign manager, trying new blood to revitalize her campaign.
I applaud the turn-over. The idea of Clinton is the white house I find a rather disturbing one. A democrat though she may be, no one who would actually compare themselves to Harry Truman is someone I would ever want to see in the white house. She represents staying with the same old political ambiguousness that we’ve been dealing with for years. There is no difference between people like her in the democrats and many of the same in the republicans.
I’ve heard far too much political doublespeak from Clinton to ever cast my vote towards her. Add to this her strong anti-gaming stance over the years and no politically-minded gamer could support her in good conscience.
Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Clinton, Democracy, Democrats, Elections, Obama, Primaries, Revisionism, Revisionism Watch 2008
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Ignorance and Democracy
By Ravenhawk | November 15, 2007
Last week there was a local election for three positions on the city council. The signs had been up around town “Vote for this person!” “This person is the best!”
However, besides seeing names on yardsigns, people-standing-on-corners signs, and the occassional scarf, I really knew absolutely nothing about the candidates. Which in other words means I knew nothing about the candidates; City council elections are non-partisan, so you don’t even have lame, uninformative party names to judge the value of a candidate by.
And yet I still voted. As opposed to the last election i voted in, (which was the first I was able to) this election did not leave me with a sense of pride. In fact, voting in this one, I felt rather ashamed. For, with my lack of knowledge about the candidates, my voting was almost random.
I felt almost relief at the fact that none of the people I voted for won.
Representitive Democracy is supposed to be a system of government where the people elect people to make their laws who represent the views of the people. However, voting responsibly requires you to know about the views of the person you’re voting for, to know if they really match yours. If you don’t know enough about who you’re voting for, you might as well not be voting.
I’ve always paid very close attention to the people who were running in national elections. My excuse for this local election would probably be something along the lines that I did not have time, what with school and work. But I’d be pathetically lying.
In the information age, it does not take any extensive amount of time at all to find out what the views are of those on the ballot. And if any representative democracy wants to survive, it’s citizens better take that time and know what they’re voting for… ….
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