by C. J. Hopkins \/ October 15th, 2018<\/p>\n
So, it\u2019s three weeks before the US midterm elections, and it looks like we have got ourselves a horse race! That\u2019s right, folks, once again, it\u2019s time to start playing with those forecast maps on Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight, and obsessively following the fluctuating poll numbers of congressional candidates you have never heard of competing in districts you couldn\u2019t locate if someone held a gun to your head. You need to start doing this immediately, if not sooner, as the stakes in these midterms could not be higher. Nothing less than the continued existence of \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d hangs in the balance, so the ruling classes need every last one of us to get out there and vote for somebody!<\/p>\n
The fact that it only marginally matters who that somebody that you vote for is should not dissuade you from voting for somebody. Voting for somebody is your civic duty, and is no less important than rooting for a sports team, or maintaining a personal favorite color, or celebrity, or brand of hemorrhoid creme. Remember, if you don\u2019t vote for somebody, somebody else is going to win, and we can\u2019t afford to let that happen!<\/p>\n
Now, your choices this year are particularly exciting, despite the fact that they are exactly the same as in every other US election since approximately the 1970s. Yes, that\u2019s right, once again, it\u2019s the Transgender Panethnic Communists of Color versus the Old White Cisnormal Capitalist Nazis,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n