No matter who wins the presidential election today, it looks like Sergey Brin will be disappointed.
The Google co-founder posted to his Google+ page on Tuesday morning to explain his discouragement about election day and the state of the government in general. "I must confess, I am dreading today's elections," Brin wrote in the post. "Not because of who might win or lose. Not because as a Californian, my vote for President will count 1/3 as much as an Alaskan (actually it won't matter at all -- I'm not in a swing state). Not because my vote for Senate will count 1/50 as much as an Alaskan."
The reason Brin is dreading the election is because he believes that regardless of who ends up winning, the U.S. government will continue to be "a giant bonfire of partisanship." For that reason, Brin issued a simple though perhaps unrealistic plea to whoever ends up becoming the next president: Govern like an independent.
"My plea to the victors -- whoever they might be: please withdraw from your respective parties and govern as independents in name and in spirit," he wrote in the post. "It is probably the biggest contribution you can make to the country."
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