I have to admit, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's elections.  This is not because I think anything will really change, even if the GOP has a huge win.  It's because I love seeing idiots in mental anguish.  Yes, I'm a sick bastard.

I'm impartial as to which idiots I see in pain.  I felt the same joy in 2008 when Obama won.  Watching the hyper-partisan GOP dipshits agonize over the Dem sweep was thoroughly satisfying.  This time around, I get to bathe in the agony of the leftists.  It's all the same to me.

I'd feel differently if I had any emotional skin in the game, but neither party has even come close to focusing on the real issues that might get me emotionally invested on either side.  I have some vague hope that the GOP might start to tackle the fiscal trap in which America finds itself.  If so, I could be far less detached in 2012.  I doubt it, but we'll see.

I think that America is simply not yet ready to face the short-term difficulties that would occur if we tried to truly tackle our fiscal dilemma.  People are wired to avoid short-term pain, even if it means more pain in the long term.  This means that the GOP will be unable to do more than tinker around the edges of the main issues, which implies that come 2012, it's likely I'll be lapping up the tears of the conservatives again.

In any event, the GOP will have their day tomorrow.  It looks to be a very good day, maybe even a historically great one.  I'd love for my cynicism to be proven wrong for once, and so I hope for some real political change.  But until that happens, I'll just keep being a twisted bastard and take my amusement where I can get it, regardless of which side is 'winning'.

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