Link: http://pollposition.com/2012/01/13/holy-tebow-democrats-republicans-at-oddsIn

I have been wondering recently why it is that I should concern myself with the the 2012 elections. Why should I participate? I have been wondering about this almost constantly for the last several months at least in a semi subliminal manner. I have tried many diversions to protect me from having to think this out. Mostly I have diverted myself from active consideration of this important issue by watching the crazy GOPer candidates for nomination to be the next president. All of those candidates are funded by superpacs operating anonymously by reason of their newly minted First Amendment-based rights to spend as much money as they can find pushing their own economic interests as though they were real people. This delusion is of course thanks to Citizens United vs FEC. I can laugh at the nonsense spouted by the Governor of Texas and wonder if he really believes the nonsense he spouts. I can still divert my attention by considering the craziness of Newt Gingrich as he prats on about the family values preached by the serial adulterer that he is and his really crazier ideas like firing school janitors and replacing them with the children of janitors who are paying off their tuition at the schools they attend. Apparently without regard to the fact that when they get out of school there will be no janitor jobs for them because their kids will have them, assuming of course we still have public schools by then I was diverted by the former senator from Pennsylvania who views himself as the god-chosen alternative to that world renowned dog lover, Willard “Mittens” Romney the creator of Romneycare in Massachusetts and now fervently disavows it so he can criticize what GOPers call Obamacare.

The Christian wing of the christianists held a big pow wow in Texas over the the weekend to choose the anti-Mittens candidate and they seem, with god's help after much prayer a la Tim Tebow to have chosen Frothy Mix Santorum to save them from the cult Mormonism represented by the Mittens and his Magic Underwear. The list of crazies just goes on like the river Styx carrying all sorts of detritus out of mind and out of mind's eye.

The damn Democrats (DEMs) aren't any better. They rattle swords and then cave. The DEMs' leader is no better he wavers on vetoing something he says he doesn't like and then caves and signs it anyway making a tough-sounding squeal indicating a measured dislike and signs an extra-constitutional signing statement to prove he's really on the right sign of any particular issue. I really see no choice. GOPers are corrupt. DEMs are corrupt. The man of hope we thought we elected president almost four years ago is corrupt. He is bearing the full weight of the institutional corruption that is the US Government. I have nowhere to go. I am feeling as powerless to affect any kind of change whatsoever. My lesser self wants to throw bombs if for no other reason than someone might notice that something is seriously wrong here. My better self restrains me and says.....it is possible to save ourselves. I just don't know what I am going to do about this battle going on.

This morning reading on my favorite blogs I read that forty-three percent of Americans believe that Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos' current season success is due to 'divine intervention.' What?! Yes 43%! You can read the poll here, Now I will admit that this poll was taken before last night's Tebow/Broncos shellacking administered by New the England Patriots. I wonder if anyone told god that New England is where the march to marriage equality was born and nurtured. One would think if “god hates fags” as much as good christianists like our friends at the Westboro Baptist Church says s/he/it does god wouldn't have let Tim Tebow go down to defeat last night at the hands of those nasty Yankees I suppose it is within the realm of possibilityhowever  that god was really pissed off at Tim yesterday. What could Tim have possibly done to make the godhead angry enough to allow New England to shellack the backsides of Tebow and his fellow broncos that way they did? What could it be that caused god to forget about New England's connection with marriage equality?

I don't know how anybody else feels about this but damn it, this poll is just another reason to sit out 2012 election cycle. If almost a majority of my fellow citizens believe that silliness, it is time to give the continent back to our native peoples, turn out the lights and head back to wherever we came from.