A rare Political Journal

As a general rule, I try to keep Politics off my deviantART page.  I don't like stepping on toes, and I know my itty bitty sphere of influence is so small it really would be meaningless either way.  But with only hours to go before we start Voting on who will be President of the United States for the next four years, I feel compelled to speak up.

So with all due apologies to whomever I may offend with what I'm about to say, I'm just going to put my thoughts on this down as plainly as I can:

It is a sad but true reality of American Politics, and as far as I can tell it always has been: when you go to the Polls, you are Voting defensively as much as, if not more than, you are proactively.  That is to say, it isn't only about Voting for Obama and the Democrats, it's about Voting against Romney and the Republicans.  And make no mistake, if you're at all interested in seeing America actually make something resembling progress, that is what you want to do when you Vote tomorrow, especially since you damned well ought to Vote if you have the capacity to do so.

I get a certain degree of disillusionment and disappointment with Obama.  There's a lot about his Administration I don't much care for either.  He's continued some of the more unnerving trends on Foreign Policy started by the Bush Administration, most notably an increasingly-flexible outlook on who the Rule of Law does and does not protect.  His overly-conciliatory attitude toward Republicans has led to some of his most promising initiatives being either severely watered-down or else stalled out completely into oblivion, while making him far too amiable to the idea of cutting into Social Security and Medicare, two of the most important Social Safety Nets of the last century.  

But all those problems essentially apply a hundred fold to Romney, and that's without the countering effect of the genuinely-good things Obama has done in his first term, as well as on top of the numerous other terrible things Romney has going for him that Obama doesn't.  Despite his frequent attempts to re-invent himself to suit whatever demographic he feels needs reaching (itself an unsavory trait to observe so plainly on display), Romney has rather consistently shown himself to be the worst kind of retrograde Racist, Sexist, Classist douchebag, and to be perfectly frank I don't feel like giving him control of the country when I know his ideas would, if put into action, do real and lasting harm to people I care about, to say nothing of the Nation as a whole.  

So I am urging you, whoever you are reading this: I don't care if you dislike Obama.  I promise you, Romney will be a thousand times worse in every way that matters.  So please, Vote against him.  It genuinely means something if you do.