I tend to not post political things, but I’ve been seeing something on those internets that has been pissing me right off for a long time. And since I just posted about governance within Gentoo, that put me in a political mood, so here I go. The Republican party has its issues. The Democratic party has its issues. By and large, I don’t see much separation between the two. Justin Raimondo said it best: they are both just two wings of the war party.
On some message boards and blog comments I see some Democrat supporters lament that had Al Gore won in 2000, a lot of the problems we currently face would not be problems for us to face. I don’t know how to even begin to gauge the veracity of such a speculation, but I will say this: do any of those lamenters even remember who Al Gore’s running mate was? There’s a certain irony there, don’t you think?
It’s that same mentality that led to the asinine “Anyone But Bush” campaign in 2004. How do you even imagine winning with such a campaign? “ABB” led Democrats to get exactly who they deserved: anyone, but Bush. Anyone even remember the guy’s name? All he had going for him was that he wasn’t Bush, for crying out loud.
There is a little bit of analogy to Gentoo here — there are people with noble goals for the project, but with little vision/direction on carrying them out. Being on the Gentoo lists is probably what it feels like to be in congress: a lot of noise over absolutely nothing.
By the way, my tone here is one of observation, not one of frustration.
Edit: linked to the irony