I dunno, I think this is actually a positive thing.
The world knows that half the USA are not Bush's willing executioners. It's not like during the anti-war protests where Bush was trying to pass off Americans who opposed his war as a tiny minority. Half of the country is on my side - and that half undoubtedly includes soldiers, FBI and ATF agents, policemen, lawyers.
They tore up registrations, they invalidated peoples' rights to vote, they broadcast every bit of poo they could fling with the best pooflingers they could buy, they did this to oppose someone who was vague and opportunistic, like they so often accused... and they still only won half the country. By contrast, "our" candidate - if you'd like to see him as such, and I don't really - was willing to concede and be seen as a supporter of the legal succession of power. If permitted to see it, you'd have to be willingly blind to not understand who's really on the side of this country and its democratic process.
Not only that, but thanks to this election, I can feel good about being from Michigan, I can feel good about being in California, I can feel honored and relieved that I got the hell out of Georgia. Thanks to the election I have a batch of really good maps showing where in the country I want to live, and where I don't even want to go on vacation.
The gains in the Senate are a little more upsetting to me than Bush's win - that means it'll be easier for him to force through whatever misguided theocratic bullshit he pulls the next four years. Protest and write in, same as always.
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The world knows that half the USA are not Bush's willing executioners. It's not like during the anti-war protests where Bush was trying to pass off Americans who opposed his war as a tiny minority. Half of the country is on my side - and that half undoubtedly includes soldiers, FBI and ATF agents, policemen, lawyers.
They tore up registrations, they invalidated peoples' rights to vote, they broadcast every bit of poo they could fling with the best pooflingers they could buy, they did this to oppose someone who was vague and opportunistic, like they so often accused... and they still only won half the country. By contrast, "our" candidate - if you'd like to see him as such, and I don't really - was willing to concede and be seen as a supporter of the legal succession of power. If permitted to see it, you'd have to be willingly blind to not understand who's really on the side of this country and its democratic process.
Not only that, but thanks to this election, I can feel good about being from Michigan, I can feel good about being in California, I can feel honored and relieved that I got the hell out of Georgia. Thanks to the election I have a batch of really good maps showing where in the country I want to live, and where I don't even want to go on vacation.
The gains in the Senate are a little more upsetting to me than Bush's win - that means it'll be easier for him to force through whatever misguided theocratic bullshit he pulls the next four years. Protest and write in, same as always.