15
Sep
Norway held an election, and I almost didn’t notice it. I don’t watch TV, I don’t really move outside too much, I hate watching politicians trying, straining to string together sentences that might make sense in their own dimension or using their particular brand of lunar-logic. The only reason I noticed, and this is a true story, is because on Monday morning (yesterday), at 10am, normally you can buy beer. And that’s what I was out to do because I wanted to get drunk and go to sleep right then.
On election day, it turns out, you can’t buy beer. Apparently Norwegians before used to get good and wasted and vote for Fred Flintstone or something as a joke.
This annoyed me enough to go vote. I had nothing else to do for the rest of the day, so I might as well, I thought. This was my first time voting ever.
Now, between the Norwegian NSDAP (the ironically named “progress party”, who wants us to regress to Germany ca. 1939) and the Trotskyist loons (who wants us to regress to Russia ca. 1917, but at least don’t have a stupid contradictory name), there really isn’t any good filler material. There’s just a lot of very shitty compromises. It’s still better than a 2-party system, and still not really good enough.
Nevertheless, I voted for the lesser of something like 13-14 evils. And it felt pretty good. And right now, knowing that today is NOT election day, the clock ticking ever closer to 10am and stores that sell beer teeming with cold alcoholic beverages, I feel even better, and safe in assuming that regardless what I had done it would not have made any difference on how the country is run at all.
I will have to remember to save some beer for the next election. Maybe I’ll vote for The Autobots.
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