Look, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. We all know that. I have been brought around. Not, mind you, by Obama himself. He's the same as he ever was, a rather opportunistic shredder of the Bill of Rights who can claim, along with George W. Bush, that he was there when the Constitutional lights went out. The NDAA-driven indefinite detention, deprivation of counsel, even murder of American citizens by Presidential fiat? Drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan with a 2% accuracy and effectiveness in killing the terrorists we're mass producing by....drone strikes?
Voting your conscience in modern America is terribly self-indulgent, however. It's kind of intellectually fussy. In a country which has fundamentally lost its mind (as this one certainly has), one must vote for the candidates of the psychopathic party which is closer to the psychopathology you favor. I know, in my heart of hearts, that the good and noble Barack Obama only engages in systematic unconstitutional and even illegal acts (of war, of violations of civil rights) simply because he needs to convince a sufficient number of uninformed and deranged fellow Americans that he has what it takes to be the leader of an insane country. I think he's done that.
Right Wing lunacy, on the other hand, guided mostly by an obese and moronic monstrosity whose cerebrum was turned to lemon-flavored Jell-O long ago by chronic, massive Oxycontin abuse, is way too dangerous. Voting for Romney increases the chances that a Republican mob will seize total power and institute a kind of American Fourth Reich.
The Republicans have become completely, freaking nuts, their ideology shaped by vast conspiracy-theory nonsense, theocratic yearning, anti-scientific obscurantism, and racial and misogynistic hatreds. Nothing whatsoever should be done to help them. In such circumstances, consistency doesn't matter. Only survival does.
Four more years! Of something or other.
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