Not Gonna Get Dragged into Politics on the Internet.

Last time I got really invested in talking about this stuff, I swear it contributed to my head going 'splodey. I don't have the energy.  I was, however, truly heartened to see some FB comments from friends I was (mistakenly, judgily)thinking would go Romney who turn out to be solidly pro-Obama. I nearly got involved in a discussion in the comments, and was girding myself to bring in those crazy FACTS and HISTORY and DETAILS to refute the bad information flowing from a couple of posters, but I backed off.  Deep breaths, deep breaths.  I do care very much about politics, but I knew the people posting the bad information and know they aren't teachable.  Why go there?

I didn't watch the R convention, I don't have a dog in that fight, I am NOT and never will be a "political blogger," for health reasons, but I caught up with the details and watched clips. Wow.  Lies, bald-faced lies - beyond misrepresentations into WTF-ery, so bad our mealymouthed chickenshit "Oh, both sides!" media felt duty bound to delicately mention it.  That was just...ARRRGH. 

And then poor ol' Clint Eastwood wandered onstage, and that sad performance is going to follow him for the rest of his days - never mind his serious directorial skills, his decades of legendary movie characters, he's now in his 80s and a lot of people will be unable to shake the memory of that bizarre, sad performance of an angry old white guy ranting at an imaginary president about confused, largely delusional wrongs - facts don't matter anymore, at all.  I heard that Romney said something too, but Doddering and Befuddled Dirty Harry so totally overshadowed him it would be comical if it hadn't been so damn depressing.  I don't want to think of Clint Eastwood as a bitter, confused old man with rumpled hair, in a suit that was hanging loose on his scrawny frame, ranting at an empty chair about stuff that I'm sure made sense in his head, but sounded sadly incoherent and confused.  It was just awful.

This isn't Both Sides anymore.  This isn't "Here is the issue that we all agree exists. Here is what has happened so far, here is what each side proposes doing about it. One side says this, and the other side says that, but they agree that the numbers are the numbers, history is history, and the facts are facts." Now it's "history and facts and um, we do have records of what happened, 'member this?" vs. some bizarre made up crap and Dirty Harry rambling incoherently at an empty chair.

Fair warning: the next person who says "Oh, both sides are the same..." to me might risk losing teeth.  No. No. NONONO.  It's actually, factually, not the same at all anymore.

We are not even dealing with the same reality - one side is dealing with the trail that led us to where we are, the current economic data and the CBO numbers, and the other thinks Clint Eastwood was AWESOME last night!  It's like...I dunno, words fail me.   WHARRRRGARBLE!!!

So I am going to do the sane, healthy-for-me thing - I will support the Obama campaign, do what I can to influence my own little corner of the electoral world, person to person, and otherwise retreat into Netflix and shows on the DVR (fast forward through the commercials) for the duration.   I want to be around to bake healthy vegan cupcakes for my granddaughters, thankyouverymuch.