i'm scared
Bush is going to be around another four years. As are Ashcroft and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Wolfowitz. They are all going to remain around to continue us on the course we've been on for the last four years...one where fear is used to control, one where civil liberties become the currency to pay for "security", one where the rich get richer as the poor get poorer, one where natural resources are seen as means to profit and little else, one where the idea that we even think about what the rest of the world thinks about our actions is scoffed at.
Before this election, those of us with our heads out of the sand could at least brush off the leadership of this country as having resulted in some fluke as the result of an antiquated voting system and some voter fraud...we could say "hey, he didn't even receive half the vote". We can't do that anymore. Outside our borders, our friends, allies, enemies, and everyone could say the same thing..."give them the chance to undo their mistake," they've said. We had our chance to change, we failed.
The rest of the world now has the right to give up on us and abandon us. We have chosen to flip them all off, and we shouldn't expect any of them to care when whatever comes our way, comes our way. And it will. Bush is a lightning rod of hate around the world and our explicit approval of him now makes us just as condusive. The day will come when we wish we would have considered the global test that the Republicans mocked so readily. I honestly believe we have set in motion terrorist attacks which will make 9/11 a pin prick.
I am also scared of the implications that this election has for how Americans think. I am pissed and sad that anti-gay marriage measures passed in all of the 11 states that they were voted on. It shows how small-minded so many Americans are. It shows how self-centered a country we are. I have yet to hear a single argument for these bans that doesn't come down to "I don't think homosexuality is moral" which is little excuse to pass any legislation. It doesn't affect them in any way, but because they think it's a sin, well, it just shouldn't be.
I need to stop now. I keep tearing up because this is just so...bad. I can't believe that we have fallen this far, that we have become this stupid. It's almost got a surreal feel to it...like soon I'll wake up and everything will be the way it should be -- with people caring about other people, with peace being preferable to war, with liberty being a foundation to democracy again, where fear isn't something mongered by the government. I guess I have to wait four years for that.
Before this election, those of us with our heads out of the sand could at least brush off the leadership of this country as having resulted in some fluke as the result of an antiquated voting system and some voter fraud...we could say "hey, he didn't even receive half the vote". We can't do that anymore. Outside our borders, our friends, allies, enemies, and everyone could say the same thing..."give them the chance to undo their mistake," they've said. We had our chance to change, we failed.
The rest of the world now has the right to give up on us and abandon us. We have chosen to flip them all off, and we shouldn't expect any of them to care when whatever comes our way, comes our way. And it will. Bush is a lightning rod of hate around the world and our explicit approval of him now makes us just as condusive. The day will come when we wish we would have considered the global test that the Republicans mocked so readily. I honestly believe we have set in motion terrorist attacks which will make 9/11 a pin prick.
I am also scared of the implications that this election has for how Americans think. I am pissed and sad that anti-gay marriage measures passed in all of the 11 states that they were voted on. It shows how small-minded so many Americans are. It shows how self-centered a country we are. I have yet to hear a single argument for these bans that doesn't come down to "I don't think homosexuality is moral" which is little excuse to pass any legislation. It doesn't affect them in any way, but because they think it's a sin, well, it just shouldn't be.
I need to stop now. I keep tearing up because this is just so...bad. I can't believe that we have fallen this far, that we have become this stupid. It's almost got a surreal feel to it...like soon I'll wake up and everything will be the way it should be -- with people caring about other people, with peace being preferable to war, with liberty being a foundation to democracy again, where fear isn't something mongered by the government. I guess I have to wait four years for that.
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