There’s only two weeks to go in this seemingly endless campaign that has been going on. Regardless of the outcome we will be able to wipe the slate clean, and start rebuilding our divisive animosity and disdain for one another anew.

If the Democrats win, the Republicans will continue to mask their bigotry and lies behind Fear Of A Black Planet, while Democrats, and probably the rest of global civilization, will go down in a fiery demise after McCain dies in office and Sarah Palin starts shooking nukes out of helicopters across her backyard toward Russia. Live out your own apocalypse.

It’s a lose/lose situation.

I wish my family shared the same political and social beliefs I have. I’m the one that defected from them though, so they aren’t really the ones to blame. I’m the traitor in this situation.

It would be easier, however, if we saw eye-to-eye on any one thing. The fact that we don’t puts up communication barriers to most things with the exception of light banter. I always know it’s time to end the phone conversation with the weather is brought up. In a familial gathering, I usually sit quietly, waiting for their bigotry talk to end or the departure time for my train, whichever comes first. I’ll let you speculate as to the outcome of who wins that grudge match.

We don’t discuss politics in my family, or at least we never used to. Maybe I wasn’t around during campaigns for those college + years while I lived in Texas and therefore didn’t hear them. But then Fox News didn’t exist then either, drilling it into their thinking during every waking moment.

Currently, my father actually believes that Obama is a socialist. After he said this and I told him he needed to stop watching Fox News, he said Fox didn’t influence him at all, that he came up with that observation on his own. Right. Oddly enough, the “socialist” ideas of health care proposed do not affect much of my family, for they already have their own “socialist” health care in the form of military hospitals. These two seem no different to me so what’s the big deal? Have civilians not earned it?

I’ve always though the Democrats look to what can happen and the Republicans look to what already has happened. With the Reps it’s always trying to get back to the glory years of Ronald Reagan, and looking back they don’t seem to be all that great. Look at the state we are in now and sure it’s easy to hark back to twenty-five years ago and say it was all better but maybe that’s only because we’re in the toilet right now. Sure maybe Clinton couldn’t keep his dick in his pants, but so what? Having a Vice-President President that starts two never-ending wars, COUNTLESS ethics issues within the administration and a complete moron for a leader is better than someone with infidelity issues? Pardon me, but I’d rather pay for a hotel room for the President and his staffer to have some hanky panky than killing over 4000 Americans and spending I-count-can’t-how-many-billions under the guise of righteous war to fatten the pockets of Cheney Halliburton and the oil companies? There’s your stock market money right there, folks.

So two weeks from now hopefully, hopefully Americans can see we don’t need another couple of warmongers and idiots in power. I’m not under the auspicious hope that Obama will make everything right again, but he does offer at least a vision that is not never-ending war and bigotry.