It is amazing how constant and unrelenting ire, argument, bickering, mud-slinging, misinformation, and dirty pool can make a person honestly uncaring. Months ago I was excited about the Obama campaign, I felt that the focus upon middle-to-lower income families as the stable foundation of sound economic policy was the right approach. Now that he's won, I honestly don't care. I'm more happy that it's finally over and everyone will be shutting up about it soon.
It's abnormally quiet in the office this morning. It's like everyone *knows* what the topic is, they all want to talk about it, but no one wants to be the first to speak. It's like two armies across a battlefield pointing muskets at one another. Every soldier on both sides knows that if he is the first to fire, he will be the one to signal the commencement of death and destruction. What is more, the *tension* is just that thick in here.
God, give me strength for today. It's going to be a long one.
05 November 2008
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No frikkin' kidding.
By Tuesday, I didn't care if they elected a stapler in a suit with google-eyes glued to the front.
I didn't even follow the election too closely. You couldn't escape the automated bashing or praise. It wasn't just the unmitigated ire that was annoying. Both sides seemed to have a hypnotic grip on their supporters.
Stupid polarized government. :(
I don't think Obama is going to be the messiah a lot of people are hoping him to be. We'll see how many of his big promises of change he actually enacts. At least he has a fairly blue field to paint his ideas on.
If he succeeds, awesome. If he fails, I'll be there with all the eeeeevil malcontents saying, "Told ya so!" XD
I suppose I'm not feeling the tension here. Perhaps that's the difference in work atmosphere? Things at work are rarely politically charged. I am glad about the outcome, not just at who won but at the numbers of people voting. The masses are starting to emerge from their complacentcy.
I am relieved it is over, it's been the same thing for the past 22 months. There is only so much of it a person can take. Now that it's over, all the political comentators will analyze where McCain went wrong, yadda yadda. I'll just tune it out like I did most of the past 22 months.
In time, things will settle down, however I think in the next decade or so we'll see more involvement in politics from the general public. In a way it's exciting to see people become more involved in how their government is run.
I think that in either outcome, the president would be making changes. It will be slow, but there is change coming. It seems like all parties are disappointed in how things are run right now.
I'm a little bit concerned that the Democratic Party is in complete control of the government. I've always been in favor of a more bipartisan split. There was always big talk during campaigning about who was most bipartisan, but is there really a point to that if one party has majority in both houses as well as the presidency? They are meant to balance each other out.
If you have a chance to catch McCain's consession speech on YouTube, I highly recommend giving it your time. He's very well spoken and sincere.
How'd the work day go? Did it get any better as the day went on?
Yeah, the overcharge wore off a bit after lunch. People I think remembered that there was still work to be done and went back to thinking about that. :)
I'm infinitely glad my mother didn't start up today. I was so paranoid she was going to start her anti-Obama rap again. Or getting the faux-pagan feminist going on the matter of abortion. Or talking about one of our rare black employees being silly for thinking Barack is black and blah blah blah ad nauseam.
I was asked what I thought of the outcome at lunch. I said what I've been saying: I'll wait and see.
Mr. Metz said something pretty funny.
"Hey, you know how I kept saying the I.R.S is evil? Apparently I'm wrong! The US public thinks giving a lot of your money to them is GOOD!"
He's snarky. *grin*
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