Thread by @elektrotal

in my youth, my brother and i used to love election night. we'd watch so much cspan and shit (my parents wouldn't spring for real cable) and be riveted and fixated on random city council races in tennessee and local water board elections in montana, and it was just cool

and from there i started paying attention hard core to elections in other countries too. i remember i was in Singapore during the elections in 2006 or something, and i was having lengthy debates with locals about party politics there

and the locals would be like 'so where do you live?' and i'm like, America, and their jaws would drop. "Why do you care so much about s'pore lah" and i'm like, i'm a politics nerd, what can i say

but then politics started going full fash, and when the local props and races became more like 'this guy hates muslims more than that guy' or 'we can deny gay folks the right to drinking water' and the joy of the democratic process went straight away.

and now as an adult i'm just sitting here watching elections with my brother and saying 'well, looks like miskatonka kentucky just voted to have all brown people flogged on every other thursday, just barely beating out the daily floggings, so that's a win.'