Rant number 312
Incase you have been under a rock for the last month or 10 - it was election day in the USA yesterday.
For some reason, this has been massive (really fucking massive) news in the UK - and has dominated the tongues of news casters and the like all week.
Interjecting this also - was of course - many a sound byte from the two candidates - which was by far the worse bit.
Without any condescension intended, I can't help but think that the way that American politics work are a little bit daft.
It's not the 2 party system, or the senate, or the house of representatives or any of that - you will understand. That is almost all mirrored by our own equally flawed system. No, the bit about the American political system is the fact that the voters seem to go for the man with the best Rhetoric - rather than the one with the best policies.
Politicians in the UK lie, cheat and steal from the British public with gay abandon. They also make promises they don't intend to keep. It's irritating I grant you. I hate them badly and completely.
What they don't do though - is talk in cliches - which is so much worse.
Obama today for instance - was full of his own self importance and was spitting out cliches faster than a 7 year old can empty a pez dispenser.
After 4 tough years for instance - he said that 'The best was yet to come.' You'd like to think so wouldn't you?
He then wen't through a whole speech in which he gloated - without really saying it. A prime example was 'Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual.'
What the hell does that even mean?
I'll be glad once the whole thing dies down - and we can get back to roasting our own idiotic politicians.
Rant over.
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