Damn Cynical Americans
Came across this post on Boing Boing about a bunch of Texas college students protesting the location of an early polling place by peacable marching enmass to the location which was put seven miles off campus to place their vote (Hmmm, I remember the polling place at my college actually, you know, on campus). Awesome, I thought. Yet read some of the comments:
"Disrupting a public highway is a childish and mean way to 'protest' it."
"Seven miles? I drive almost 30 miles to work every single day. This was the EARLY polling place... it's not like they had to be there during business hours for one day. Sheesh. What a bunch of whiners. I hope they didn't prevent anyone from getting anywhere important with their stunt."
"This is a great idea. I need to renew my license soon and I'm going to march down the middle of the street all the way to the DMV office to protest it not being closer to me."
"I'm all for voting rights and stopping gerrymandering, and I don't doubt there are very real instances of this in Texas and elsewhere, but this seems like an extremely excessive reaction."
WTF? Is that what Americans of a certain generation believe? That this a bunch of "whiners" who are disrupting a comfortable ride on a highway for someone, you know just to uphold their right to access to vote?
Damn, the pussification of Americans has really taken hold, eh? No Spirit of '76 anywhere in evidence. Just Karl Rove Era Cynicism from here to the horizon. No wonder the Constitution is in the shitter...
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