Gah! Agh! AHH!

My mother: a POOR. MINORITY. FEMALE, is voting for McCain this year.

Please let me pause, so that this post doesn't turn into a vomit-tastic jumble of profanity.

My shoulders are up to my ears right now. She voted, both times, for Bush before. During our argument about her decision, it slipped out that one of her main deciding factors was because she didn't believe in gay marriage. What kind of --- OOOH, texti, hold it. Hold it. Breathe.

When she said this, I looked at her, calmly, and asked, "Is it because Obama is black?"

To which she replied, "No, of course not!" (By the way, she is an admitted racist.)

I breathed out. I collected myself. "Okay," I said slowly. "Do you realize that voting for McCain is only going to help the rich people?" Which, look around, is a demographic we are clearly not a part of.

She stopped, thought, smiled, and quipped: "Well, if I want to be rich someday, I got to aim high, right?"

*Storms off into a corner and seethes*
*Knocks over a cup*
*Breaks a pencil*
AGH!

Seriously. Dear all: even to those who don't believe that Obama is the best candidate (I waited before deciding to push for him, he makes me hopeful in a way I never imagined I could be with a politician), or that "America's not ready" (yo, if not now, when?) etc: Right now, we are heading towards -- if not already in -- a deeeep state of Crisis. We need someone who has a much clearer picture, who understands what needs to be fixed, in order to reconstruct and move ahead properly.

This is not about your money. This is not about your personal race to win. This is about fixing the crumbling foundations of your home - rewiring the right way, fixing shingles, clearing the gutters, insulating, etc - instead of divorcing the wife thats been nagging you about fixing it because you just didn't want to hear it anymore, sending your 16 year old kid out to suck dick for money (to fund both your survival and cocaine habit), and holding on to the hopes that this way, you'd be able to buy a bigger, better, shinier TV. When your house falls apart, none of that shit is going to matter.

You have to heavily consider the state of AMERICA and what it NEEDS, rather than keeping ignorant to something that has to seriously get addressed. If this goes on, even the Content is going to lose it all. I guarantee this.

The Republicans are going to come out in droves to ensure that Obama doesn't get elected into presidency, for reasons that have nothing to do with current America. That's all I can really say about that. ("They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.")

Sigh. I wish I could be more profound on this subject, but I can't. I can only express my urgent plea, to stop being selfish and to start looking outwards. We're crumbling apart, yall. Consider the state of working class Americans. Consider the state of the immigrants that are holding the fucking fibers of this economy together by doing all the shit you don't want to do with shit pay, no benefits and constant belittling. Consider the Grand Jury, and its split down the middle in its current state. Consider the imbalance, and how impartial is a very, VERY hard thing to come across in the political world. We need you. We need you.

Mom, you're such a douchebag. I love you, but seriously, wtf.