I went to vote on Halloween because I just have this awful feeling it won't matter by the 4th.
That's certainly possible. I know I've voted by absentee ballot and it hasn't counted. I mean, that was apparently because they'd determined it was impossible for the other guy to win the state (and it went for the candidate I voted for anyway), but it still makes the process seem rather futile. I'm voting on the actual day this year, though. Let's hope they count it.
People want to believe that being ordinary is somehow better than being elite, because many people have long since stopped even trying to be special.
I think it's disturbing that a fair number of people seem to be convinced that everyone's either "ordinary" or "elite." Whatever happened to everyone being special WITHOUT having to be convinced they're better than anyone else?
And listen to some ivy league... smart guy, as if he is better than I am?
With this in mind, it's pretty absurd that the candidates these people go for are often ALSO Ivy League graduates. But I guess they're the lesser of two evils because they didn't get very good grades at those institutions.
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Date: 2008-11-03 01:43 am (UTC)That's certainly possible. I know I've voted by absentee ballot and it hasn't counted. I mean, that was apparently because they'd determined it was impossible for the other guy to win the state (and it went for the candidate I voted for anyway), but it still makes the process seem rather futile. I'm voting on the actual day this year, though. Let's hope they count it.
People want to believe that being ordinary is somehow better than being elite, because many people have long since stopped even trying to be special.
I think it's disturbing that a fair number of people seem to be convinced that everyone's either "ordinary" or "elite." Whatever happened to everyone being special WITHOUT having to be convinced they're better than anyone else?
And listen to some ivy league... smart guy, as if he is better than I am?
With this in mind, it's pretty absurd that the candidates these people go for are often ALSO Ivy League graduates. But I guess they're the lesser of two evils because they didn't get very good grades at those institutions.