The "I Want" Syndrome and Election '04

[WilliamPitt]

"I want a candidate who will do X!"

"I want a candidate who will do Y!"

"I want a candidate who sees things like I do!"

I want a candidate who is as righteous as me!"

Fuck what you want.

This is not about what you want.

This is about the entire country, a lot of which does not think or believe as you do. Face it.

You are not important. You are not a beautiful unique snowflake. You are one among millions, among billions. You are a grain of sand on a beach.

The "I Want" Syndrome is the death of community, the death of understanding that individual desires have to be sacrifieced for the greater good. If you can't bend your neck, you are as bad as the worst Ashcroftian extremist. You are the same problem, and your course of action will deliver us to the same doom.

Nobody gives a damn what you want. Until you can use the word "We" and mean this community and the country and the planet, until you can use the word "We" in a manner that denotes your understanding that the needs of the larger whole outstrip by parsecs your own ideological masturbation, until you can stop using "I", you are a dangerous wild card whose personal suicide ride is taking us all down the chute.