A Small Digression on "Politics?"

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You know what really grinds my cogs?
When people call the circumlocutions politicians do, "politics".
"They never answered the question! They just talked around it!"
"Oh, well that's politics"
This kind of complacency is pathetic.

Sure, we attempt to rectify these prevarications by picking/concatenating to one short gem out of hours of speeches and superimpose them in impact font on an innocuous, high quality picture, but this does nothing; it may appear to have an effect, since they're capitalizing on it, but again, it does nothing. "Politicians" don't browse Memebase, DamnLoL, Funnyjunk, or any websites like that all day, or possibly ever. (What the fuck do they do all day?)
No.

"Vanus", am I right?

No.
NO.
NO.
This is not politics! This is being afraid!
Being afraid, to tell the truth.

As much as I'd love to say politicians should simply resort to one-worded answers, politics and things beyond politics are not that simple. You know this, I know this, the aliens hiding on the obverse side of Venus know this.
Now, as an upstanding member of society, subscribed to a rather steadfast oath of veracity for multiple reasons, I can assure you that I am an expert on tergiversation and prevarication, and also public gesticulation. But come on, this has just gotten ridiculous. Asking any legitimate question now automatically warrants a lugubrious and arduously scripted response filled with irrelevant trivialities and impertinent superficialities. Am I saying that politicians should simply cut down their answers into soundbites as to save that guy at CNN's workload every other day? No. Fuck that guy, he owes me 20 bucks.

What are we to do?

Fuck if I know. I get multitudes of emails and Facebook posts daily claiming signing something will procure some result desired of some asshole in Washington. Of these updates, I'm typically only told of one or two successes. I don't know, I'm rather pessimistic about the whole thing, I feel like the protagonist of The Great Gatsby sometimes when it comes to the issue of (at least) American politics. I don't know how well your countries can handle it, I've not all the time in the world to read the few resources I'm capable of accessing (Le Monde, Sveriges Radio, Dradio, NRK, СИТИ-FM), but I'm sure you've your share of somnambulist-engendering "speeches" for simple questions that any average person can answer in one word. I ate a booger thinking it was a chip once. Politicians now, in America, simply aren't what they used to be. The multitude of them are anachronisms from an era they weren't even born in. And now the political spectrum has become so discombobulated and stratified, that if there is a crossover in ideology, members of these sides will intentionally sabotage and capitulate their ideologies simply in order to remain whatever political affiliation they ascribe to. People have become so polarized in general that it's quite nearly impossible to forge a common ground, let alone meet on it.

Now, believe me (DO IT) when I say, I've heard some stupid ideological principles and ideas, but the real stupidity regarding holding these ideals is holding them with some sort of iron vice likable to a jealous anaconda's date. People change, societies evolve, dogs shit on your carpet, cats sit on your keyboard, and ideas are fluid waiting to be molded into something. I know there are things I believed when I was 14 that I no longer believe, and promulgate (I wrote a decree) it embarrassing to even be associated with ever believing such nonsense. (I used to believe the light in the refrigerator turned off after you closed the door, I've recently discovered that there was no light, it's all in your head.) There are things we look back on that are simply cringe-worthy. Most atheist's/atheists' coming-of-age is typically rife with "righteous" indignation and "imposed" angst. I know mine was. God never answered my prayers for snow-days. Fuck You. And there are some ideas I held throughout my middle and high school (Primary and Secondary) years that are simply repugnant to me now. (One of them is more of a lexical discrepancy.)
Most conservatives claim that being liberal is only a phase, that erodes away after more (extensive) experience(s) with the "lower classes" (actual quote I've seen). Albeit this is true for some people, it holds not for all. I wouldn't say I've become more conservative in my ideologies, I don't prefer to interpose myself in the spectrums we've now for such affairs, but I can attest to my disillusionments being more aimed to (not at) the "liberal" side of things.

My Major "Gripe" with Contemporary Political Commentary and Discourse

We can't agree on jack shit.

The news networks, the "talking heads", the inferior-to-mine blogs, your parents, your friends, even your pet salamander, no one is safe from our indelible arrogances and belief systems. Especially with religion, but that's for another digression. So why should I care about another's beliefs? "To each their own, right?" No, fuck you, you imbecilic apologist. "To each their own" is just a euphemistic way of saying, "I think your likes are shit/beliefs are stupid and am not willing to argue further on the matter in case I secretly agree with you or vice versa. Dick." You see, they're isn't any "moderation" or "middle-ground" anymore. You're either a "Socialist Commie Muslim" or a "White Christian Upstanding Citizen" now. You can't agree with a point a conservative makes without being an "idiot" or agree with one point a liberal makes without being called a "socialist". There are points raised by both sides that are legitimate and worth considering (and we all know which side has more), but it's impossible to hold onto these points without having someone completely disregard your opinion for having some slice of one ideology's pie and having another. Fatass.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go masturbate to pictures of shemales and convincing crossdressers.

120 out of 535 arbitrary old fucks.

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