What just happened? Did that really just happen… again?
I’m done talking about it. I’m tired. I’m depressed. I’m shocked. In DC, where more than 90% of voters supported Kerry yesterday, there is a feeling of despair. The streets are quieter than they were yesterday. That energy we felt, seeing the lines at the polls and going to our “happy” hours until late into the night, has been extinguished. What went wrong?
More than anything else, it's embarrassing to me because I still consider – because I still want to consider – this country to be a great one. But then I see half of us completely ignorant, voting for God and lower taxes. You know who they are? Fundamentalist Christians, rich white men and people influenced by scare tactics. Uneducated on longer-term consequences. Wake up!, I want to say… the failing economy, the threatened environment, unrealistic education mandates, rising healthcare costs, diminishing Social Security and Medicare funds… hello, are you listening?
Stem cell research can help so many people. Discrimination – against ANYONE – is simply unacceptable. Is it not 2004? Hello?? Are these people for real? Someone recently said that we’re going back in time, that this election has, and has the potential (i.e., Supreme Court changes) to reverse valuable progress.
It makes me sick... I think even if Kerry won, I'd still be disgusted at how many people still voted for Bush. On "morality?” How is being a liar being moral? How is killing thousands of our troops being moral? And for what? Have we figured that out yet? There is no getting around the facts that there are no WMD and no proven connection from Iraq to Al Qaeda. Not to mention how other countries view us… especially now. They are laughing I tell you, rolling on the floor laughing.
The next four years are going to be hell too... say good-bye to Roe v. Wade, for one. Oh, and don't get me started on the number of homophobes who voted to ban same-sex marriage. What century are you living in? Fuckers. Excuse my freedom fries.
I'm disappointed, but more angry and embarrassed at my fellow citizens. I refuse to believe that the middle of the country is simply “uneducated.” There must be something more… but what is it? What is that impetus that convinces people that it’s ok to deny basic human rights to women, to gays, to those afflicted with disease… I don’t know what it is, but we better figure it out before 2008.
November 3, 2004
The morning after…
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You're an idiot. A complete idiot. I hope you don't take yourself seriously. Go have sex with Al Franken, why don't you? Leftist crap. Seriously now, the problem with Kerry is that he is too left. Think about it for a second. If you want to be a democrat and win, you must run to the center, even if you fool people later on by really meaning to govern from the left. That's the problem w/ the democrats. Yes, they'll always win the usual blue states, but they'll never take a chunk out of the red by running to the left. That's exactly why Hillary can't win in 08 should she decide to run. She's a hard-core liberal. Now, nothing wrong w/ it -- she can be who she wants to be, but SHE CAN'T WIN! Do you get it yet?
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