This Election is Killing Me

I can’t stop.

I can’t stop reading infuriating stories, which are repudiated by other infuriating stories. I can’t stop leaving heroically asinine comments in responses to other people’s controverted heroically asinine comments. I find myself almost unable to read a “news” article without bias, and what’s far worse than that, I seem almost unable to find a news article written without bias. It seems like absolutely everyone in the media has taken sides. There is no longer any moderator in this debate, it’s about who can lie better and faster and louder to the most receptive audience. I was really hoping that the debates might bring some sanity and apply the coherent balm of reality to the debate. But now I’m pretty sure it will just add a whole lot more shit to the shit storm, even more crap to the pick and choose politics of eulogizing anything that makes your side sound good and ignoring anything that doesn’t. Maybe that’s where we have to be at now. The stakes have become far too high. All in. Total war. At least the framers saw to it that we don’t have to use guns to fight this out (at least not on each other)

Edit: I think I wrote this right after having engorged myself on a bit too much political junk-food. Standing a bit further back it now seems a little over the top, and kind of funy; In a – laughing at me, not with me – sort of way.