All posts tagged "Election Day"

Granted, today will be nerve-racking for everyone, but today's still my favorite day of the year. There's something uniquely wholesome about the practice of Election Day, over a hundred million people headed to similar places to do a similar - and meaningful - thing. It doesn't involve the consumerism of our other national holidays and hallmarks. It's a day of reward for true believers, the ones who've spent all their spare hours folding mail or knocking on doors for their chosen candidate.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/v/-4wQfQtpDAc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1 expand=1]This video is being posted all over the liberal blogs because it's such a nice reminder of how much of our opposition is composed of mindless theocrats. I'm posting it because I like that her invocation of the Christian cliche, "I'll pray for you," is without any ambiguity. There's going to be a point where upwards of 95% of threats to pray for someone will mean, "I wish I could force you to do X, but I know I can't (yet), so I'm going to ask god to force you." We probably reached that percentage during this election season.