An Australian US Presidential Election?

For months on end, my Facebook feed has been battered by arguments, glowing support and slanderous comments directed towards Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama. No biggie right? Most of you reading this are likely in the same boat. The problem is this though: All these political posts are coming form Australians.

Australians. People in a country far from the jurisdiction of the US President. A country with a whole handful of its own political problems. A country that really doesn't need its citizens focusing so intently on something that 1. Doesn't have any affect on them and 2. They don't even have a say in. Aussies don't vote in international elections.

It reminds me of another raucous debate my Facebook endured months ago. Team Edward or Team Jacob. Clearly Edward was the protagonist of the entire Twilight series so he had dibs, right? No, no, no, he bailed in the second book and forfeited that right... Sound stupid? Well now you're beginning to see just how ridiculous this is.


Yet still people do it. They are passionate about it and will continue regardless of how often I link them to this very post in the available comments section. Meanwhile, Australia has a Prime Minister doing her very best to be worse than useless and naming her opposition a "misogynist" for calling her out on it, which is ridiculous: Being a woman doesn't make you a crap politician; being a crap politician is what makes you a crap politician. 

It doesn't help that we, as a country, elected someone who closely resembles the villain in the Disney movie The Rescuers.


Alas, that is the boat we are in. So I shall endure the pointless political posts with a smile. I've had my rant and ranting is always strangely therapeutical in one way or another. Yet that is my stance- what side of the fence am I on?

The Australian side.

As for you, where do you stand in the current Political maelstrom?