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[solitary_summer]

Sometimes I feel vaguely guilty because I never post about politics, but then I look at the state of the world (I thought learning Russian, apart from being interesting, might be useful; I hardly suspected we were in for the next Cold War...), the stupidity of our current election campaign (How can a party that has been in government for decades have election posters saying 'Es reicht!' ('Enough!')? That's either a tad schizophrenic, or assuming voters have no brain whatsoever; probably both.), and I give up in disgust, fight the urge to delete everything I've written, more often than not give in & delete, feel guilty about my cynicism for a while, because I do recognise how harmful this kind of attitude is, and then let myself get distracted by something pretty & shiny.


So here's Tilda Swinton being gorgeous on my desktop instead. /escapism







::sips tea::

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[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Not that everything is perfect here, but what I'm hearing about the American health care system from blogs, etc., people asking medical advice from the internet, living with obvious, often painful health problems, because they can't afford seeing doctor... that simply scares me.

I've been voting for the Green party or Liberals (those on the left side of the political spectrum) all my adult life, but I suspect in a few weeks' time we'll have yet another coalition of the Right and Further Right. It's hard not to get a little jaded...