all in the name of politics

the usc elections have reminded me that the people who end up in national politics have to start somewhere.

the mudslinging, the disappearance of loyalty, the general air of "we will do what it takes to win" that weighs what would otherwise be a happy cold day down.

starts here.

right here. where the people who say they want change and they want the bad people out end up doing the same shit they hate the bad people for.

fake emails. hazing pictures. good god.

i have friends who are in frats and sororities, and some of them are good friends, at that. but i've said it before, and i'll say it again: hazing is stupid.

it is stupid, downright degrading, painful, and illegal. and those who engage in it, especially those who (being loser wimpazoidal freaks who were friendless and bullied and bitch-slapped daily when they were young) derive pleasure from humiliating people and causing them pain, should get a dose of the pain they dish out.

but that doesn't make the release of those stupid photos any less tainted with lack of integrity. with disgusting political maneuvering. and the fact that those pictures were released not with the objective of bringing wrong to light, but of ruining people's lives made it even more disgusting.

what did it achieve, really?

third still won. you still lost. sorry nalang.

if you're willing to sink to the lowest of the low in the hopes that the voting public you are courting will sink right along with you, if you're willing to forsake friendship and loyalty and decency and honor in the name of getting the most votes, good god.

you're not any better than those idiots you want to see out of office.

and don't tell me that national politics and national elections are different.
the numbers may be larger. there may be more money.

but the lying and cheating and mudslinging? the black prop instead of winning on the issues?

same stinking pile of shit.

you scare the crap out of me.