Campaign 2008, Undecided?

These words are for the undecided, the independents, and the free thinkers that have, as of yet, still not matriculated their political choices with either the Republican or Democratic political parties.

If you are a party hack, a mindless drone of either political side, a sheep that follows the heard, a lemming that leaps off cliffs with the pack, please search elsewhere for your daily bread. After all, only hearing what you want to hear matters to you.

I normally would not add my still small voice to the cacophony of blathering pundits that argue that the sky is pink when their party demands this level of obedience. But I know that almost all of the political polls still show a large gap in voter opinions. In some states, there is still 8-9% of the population with questions regarding Senators McCain and Obama and that have, as of yet, still not chosen a candidate.

I can not believe that this blog and its postings may make a difference. I am not a Greek tragic figure with hubris seeping out of his pores. I'm just a "Jose Seis" (Joe Six-Pack). I have hobnobbed with the elite and find wine and cheese parties dull. I watch Monday Night Football, I drive a 1996 automobile, have to watch every penny I make, and dream of a weekend getaway with my girl. No dreams of flying to Europe here. Just a weekend without the kids and monkey sex in a hotel room a few hours away.

But this election matters, and it matters for reasons so much more important than the economy. For God's sake, haven't we all taken Economics in school? Don't we know that economies expand and contract, rise and fall, and that administrations can not be blamed for its valleys nor praised for its peaks? Have we truly become a nation of completly self-absorbed lame-asses that only care about themselves? I argue that we are not that shallow, that the cream will rise to the surface and that the ones that care will have their voices heard. If I did not believe this, I would not bother with this blog.

As it is not the economy that should motivate you to register your vote this election, one must investigate what really matters when we enter our little booths and pull, or poke, or press whatever we must to be fully participatory citizens. Logic should direct our thinking.

If the economy comes and goes and is not the number one issue, what then should we prioritize as the issue?

The future: that temporal state that is the arena of prognosticators and prophets.

But this is no Jerimiad. I do not predict that the sky will fall if either McCain or Obama is victorious this november. One of the wonderful truths of our slow moving and highly suspect bueracracy is that we are a nation that can not abide radical change. We like our changes slow and steady. The US citizen likes to be taken out and shown a good time before commiting to being fucked. Only once in our nation's history was outright chaos brought upon us by a presidential election. I do not forsee this as being the case this election.

However, the vision of our future is what McCain and Obama debate. By simply contrasting their visions of the future we have a sense of where they hope to lead our nation if elected. Let us do so now and ignore the economy...