Day 6

What has made you angry recently? Why?

oh this one's definitely going longer than 37 words...

politics.

once upon a time, i was idealistic and involved with first my college and then my state's young democrats. i actively supported the clinton/gore ticket...both times. i worked on some state campaigns. i donated whenever i could. more recently i actively supported obama, even traveling to out-of-state rallies and campaigning.

maybe i was stupid and naive, but i actually believed in people and what they were saying they stood for.

i've been let down by leaders i supported more times than i care to think about. and i've been sadly unsurprised at a certain north carolina politician who turned out not to be the golden boy he acted for the media and everyone who saw him in public. and recently...if it's not scandal, it's politicians being politicians...forgetting who sent them into office and only playing politics. it's enough to make me want to quit bothering.

oh, in general elections i won't quit...i firmly believe we have a duty to participate in the system. and that if you are eligible and choose not to, you have no right to comment on the results.

today was a special election in at least some districts. honestly i'm not sure if it was in mine as i never received any kind of campaign propaganda from anyone. and yet walking past a school - a school which is NOT my voting location - today on my way to run, i was accosted on both sides of the limits for how close campaigners are allowed to get by people supporting a candidate i've never heard of. one idiot even tried to talk to me again on my way back from my run. i had had it at that point and said "if he'd bothered to campaign before today, maybe. but it's too late now." she said "he did." i said "really? not hard as i've never heard of him and i got nothing in the mail about him." she started to say something, but i cut her off with the solid fact that i'm not even assigned to that school. stupid as it's the closest to me. but there you are. at any rate, as i said, i don't know if there even was any election in my district or whatever as i literally go no campaign propaganda from anyone. so we'll see what happens in november.

the sad thing is, there's a politician i would have been 100% behind should she run for mayor...i want to still be because so far she has proven herself to be awesome and amazing...and even better than the current mayor when it came to a recent visit by Irene in terms of talking to the people through the press. but honestly? i've been burned so many times from putting my faith in someone i don't know that i can ever fully support any candidate again.

and that makes me both very sad and very angry.