Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of Transmetropolitan, has an interesting perspective on voting. This is another one unsuitable for all those teeny-tots reading my livejournal. But there are a couple of points where I disagree with him.
In general, I’m fine with whores, sinners, and freaks, most of them at least have some humility or alot of pragmatism. It’s self-righteous authoritarian majorities who wish to reshape the world into some autocratically constructed, idealized image that worry me, particularly because autocratically constructed images are rarely implementable.
You have to page down a bit to get to the cartoon. But once you see the guy with the tattooed bald head, jacket, and no shirt, you’ve got it. http://edge.cow-dog.net/archives/2004/10/12/on-voting-and-elections-in-general/
That’s pretty much what the election results felt like to alot of us. Probably the most polarizing election of my lifetime. And they haven’t been getting any more uniting as time goes by. I really hope my misgivings are wrong.
Warren Ellis
Just so you know, Warren Ellis (The man behind Spider Jerusalem and many other creations) has his own livejournal at mistersleepless.livejournal.com
Spider Jerusalem and His creator share almost identical philosophies (give or take a century or two).
Personally I think I this century the Republicans got together to vote-in-majority to knife-f*ck the other half of humanity, but that is just one guys opinion.
Re: Warren Ellis
I would agree with that, if there were another planet approximately as full of people as this one. My opinion is that they, the bush voters, voted to screw pretty much the entire planet’s population, including the majority of themselves.