The Vote for Obama

by Jess Song on May 11, 2007 · 0 comments

in Editorials

Barack ObamaI got mad whenever people said shit like “I’m not voting for Barack because my vote will get him assassinated.” I got real pissed, because that’s the same assbackwards mentality that prevents the the people with the RIGHT MINDSET from getting heard. It’s the same mentality that keeps the third parties in the dark, rather than giving us the opportunity to at least listen to them — “Why vote for them, when it will just take away votes from (that guy who you don’t really agree with but are voting for because he is the lesser of two evils)?” It’s the same mentality that had people saying, “I don’t like what he stands for, but I’ll vote for Bush because I mean, at least he’s constant.”

WHAT?

You’re fucking keeping yourselves down. You do not have the right to complain about the state of America if you are keeping it the way it is. Here you have the perfect opportunity to have a GOOD PRESIDENT. And you don’t want to vote for him because, oh, “he might get shot?” ANYBODY with the promise of the future, that conservative America–a huge portion of our population–disagrees with, is in the line of fire. What the fuck. So you’re really going to let their ignorant ass thumb push you down? Or is that just a scapegoat?

Hell, I could get shot. I’m a good person with great ideas. I got a lot to say, and I help a lot of people, too! But I’m living in a dangerous neighborhood because I can’t afford not to. What does that make me?

If 50 Cent got hailed as a BIGGER gangster just because he GOT SHOT, what the fuck do you think this means? The fact that a population will even RESPOND that way, the fact that he strikes SO MUCH FEAR into these conservatives that the ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME IT IS THROUGH VIOLENCE, all that proves is that he is WORTH IT. It proves that they are bringing themselves DOWN TO THE LEVEL that they have pinned onto the MINORITIES of America. “Violence is no way to solve problems,” right?

I am an asshole. And I still say that voting for him might get him shot, but it will DEFINITELY help America along the way. And the whole point of us selecting who becomes our president is solely for the purpose of bettering AMERICA.

Isn’t it?

Reconsider your fucking priorities.

I’m not going to vote for someone who won’t make me happy, I refuse to vote for someone who will keep me down, I refuse to vote for someone who will not LISTEN to me. The only person that I find promising is Barack. So my fucking ass is going to vote for him. If you want to blame me for the assassination–that is, if it does happen, and it’s not some crazed mentally unfit Republican perpetrating the weakness it found in the liberals leaning on Obama’s side–go the fuck ahead.

I vote so that I feel safe in my own goddamn home in a nation that seems to have no problem with sacrificing lives for the ‘bettering of democracy’.

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