My Cynical Bliss. Please, honestly, talk me down from the "meh" tower...

[Javaman]

I look upon all the bullshit that is being passed off as elections in this nation and it exhausts me.

Electronic voting, whatever.

Ever since 2000 and 2004, I don't believe any election, unless there is a reasonable margin. 2008 brought me back from the brink of total and complete cynical nirvana.

But then I look at the WI election. Some posters with IT experience, cut through that repuke election workers bullshit like a hot knife through butter.

While others pointed out that she found just enough votes for that repuke judge to win without a recount.

And still others post info about people who actually worked with this woman and pointed out her history of fraud.

Any ordinary person would say, "What the hell! Something fishy is going on here!"

But in my cynical bliss, I shrug and say, "so what else is new?", however, and this is were I need help, because my very dear fellow DU'ers, I'm really tired of being the cynic. It hurts me, makes me really sad and frankly, I'm in a deficit of hope. No, not the marketing slogan of HOPE, but the basic part of life that makes us all get up in the morning, go to work and do our jobs type of hope.

I sit at my keyboard and gaze around me and I try to convince myself that if I just write one more letter to the editor or one more letter to my halfwit repuke senator, something anything will change.

But as I look at this recent development in WI, I can't help but think, from past experience (Florida 2000 or Ohio 2004), even if there is blinding evidence of fraud in the WI ballot, that no one will be prosecuted or held accountable. There will be no real investigation. It will be allowed to "slide".

I get sick to my stomach with my "meh" attitude. My cynical bliss solves nothing and only further pushes up my disgust in the process.

I'm so tired, so very tired.

[blondeatlast]

1. That's exactly what the corrupt are counting on. they want us to

see this stuff as "business as usual."

I'm not a conspiracy type--but every "little (7000?)" inconsistency--about fucking ELECTIONS--makes it all the more believable that it is deliberate.

[PeaceNikki]

2. You know that this election is not the totality of the fight in WI and we've just started, right?

Please stop acting like "it's over" based on the outcome of this race. If there's one thing you guys should know after the last 8 weeks, Wisconsin Dems will not give up. If there was fraud, we'll find it. If there was incompetence, we'll expose it to the light of day.

And if in the end Klopp loses, we fucked some shit up. This was a non-partisan spring election with ONE statewide race. We We lifted Kloppenburg up from a THIRTY POINT DEFICIT she held 8 weeks ago. To get it CLOSE to 50/50 is a fucking miracle.

We have 8 recalls in the works, 2 filed. We're not done and this election was not the totality of our fight. It is one piece.

[Javaman]

3. Okay...

You have talked me down a step.

And no, I'm not seeing this as the end all be all, I'm just talking about elections via electronic means and how they are fixed.

If however, this happens again with this situation in WI, then I will be done. I will be off to cynical nirvana. Right now, I'm still only contemplating my political belly button.

If after all the hard work the good folks of WI put in is defeated via crooked elections and other crooked ballot measures, then, I'm done with the whole process.

However, I will hold out until then.

Thanks for your tough love. :) Cheers!

[PeaceNikki]

6. One of the WI "Fab 14" just said: "This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon."

Hang in there. :)

[Wait Wut]

4. Excellent points.

No one had even heard of her. That's a damned good turnout for an unknown.

Everyone needs to keep fighting. Like I said in another similar thread, we all get tired. Take a break. Don't read, listen or talk politics. It will still be here when you've taken a mental vacation.

[marmar]

5. I let go of the illusion of American "democracy" a long time ago......

...... that's why my focus is on localized activism. I vote, but with little faith in the process.