Je Suis Fatigue de ma Vie
I’m incredibly tired of my life right now. I want out of Philadelphia so badly I dream about it. As a musician especially, I have come to loathe this place like no other. By staying here as long as I have, I’ve robbed myself of a decade in which I could have been playing more music and doing so with more success.
Currently, I’m debating not so much whether to move, but where, when, and how to do so.
I’m also incredibly disheartened, to the point of giving up, on politics. Nothing changes here in the United States, as most of us know, except that the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. we’ve come to expect that kind of shit from the GOP, but it’s sad to see that the Democrats are incapable of doing anything that helps the poor or middle class either. And despite protestations by booman that “the Republicans adopted a no-holds-barred oppositional stance on every piece of Obama’s agenda”, I think it’s obvious that, without help from Democrats, the Senate Republicans can’t sustain a filibuster. I think it’s obvious that the no-strings bailout for Wall Street was a bipartisan effort, and that on pretty much every issue, the Democrats are as much to blame as anyone else for what’s wrong with the country. David Faris, a Penn political science Ph.D. candidate who writes for the City Paper put it like this:
As esteemed political scientist Robert Dahl pointed out, the Senate is already one of the most undemocratic institutions this side of the Chinese politburo, endowing the 1.78 million citizens of Nebraska with the same effective voting power as more than 36 million Californians. The pivotal voices in the health-care debate — Maine’s Olympia Snowe, Montana’s Max Baucus and Nebraska’s Ben Nelson — collectively represent about 1.4 percent of the population. Elsewhere, this isn’t so. The British have a system wherein the party that wins the election gets to actually enact the platform they placed before the voters, rather than having party leaders prostrate themselves before the opposition’s moderates or their own party’s most craven opportunists (ahem, Joe Lieberman).
it sure makes it hard to care about the Democrats when they never deliver on their promises, or when they do, they go out of their way to do the least they can do.
We live in a country run by an obsolete and broken political system (ever notice that most democracies have a parliament and proportional representation?), specifically designed so nothing gets done.
There’s one exception to that of course: the Republicans, who while totally insane and evil, actually accomplish things.
no amount of excuse-making for Democrats changes that.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
dude, now you’re bumming even ME out. i’d hate to see you leave philly…it’s still amerikkka where you go, dude. right on on the disproportional representation…it explains a lot, don’t it?!? and finally, yes, the democrats are crap to the republicans’ shit…we’re fucked.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:33 am
yeah i hear you. i’ve been wondering the past couple days wtf i am doing here instead of costa where i could live maybe 3x as long on the money i have. if i can’t work or really do anything, i might as well be with the monkeys and iguanas, hanging at the beach.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Disproportional representation is better than no representation at all. Move to DC for awhile: it’ll make you feel better about politics in PA.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
All the bad guys need is for good guys to give up.
It’s what they live for.
Wherever you go, there will be bad guys.
Your choice.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
You could always live in BELTON! HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAA.