while it’s safe to say me, and many of my friends, and my family are disappointed and scared to death of the next 4 years, i am not going to talk about my feelings on the election.
i will say that i’m working overtime trying to get the fbi to show up at my door.
i had this crazy dream about being in toronto and waiting for a bus/subway that would take me back to the falls. waited forever, but while i was waiting there was a hockey game at maple leaf gardens between the leafs and the sabres…it was a rerun…old jerseys old players…tons of players and the ice was gigantic. it was really weird. the bus/subway finally came and i was with a bunch of people from work. we drove passed these bombed out gutted buildings ripe for urbex. one of them was a shoe factory and there were all sorts of brand name vintage shoes everywhere, including white keds with puffy paint already on them…and there was a really really fat person on the bus/subway that had to sit between the rows of seats in the aisle because they were too fat to fit in the pair of two seats…so they were spread out across 2 seats, the aisle and the other 2 seats…
board meeting tonight, then nothing
my father sent me this link to a WBFO editorial on the election. i think it’s a very good piece, and sums up many of my feelings on the situation.
we’re in for it. we are in for the scariest 4 years in a long long time. and not necessarily because of anything bush might do to us immediately, but for what comes after, when instead of reaping benefits, we are suffering the consequences. i am moderately up to date on recent history, as i’ve always enjoyed the 20th century, and i can’t think of a period of recent history that was scarier than what we’re going into. despite the cold war, and the posturing by the US and USSR, i think it’s safe to say nothing would have ever happened to turn it into a “hot war”….the arms race and mutually assured destruction prevented any all out war between “democracy” and “communism” ever occuring. yes that was scary, thinking about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust is beyond frightening, but it wouldn’t have (and obviously didn’t) happen. this “dangerous cowboy” we have in office has the potential to do much more damage than any nuclear strike ever could…
i find it so hard to wrap my mind around the fact that america has the most ignorant population of any “civilized” nation. i really can’t believe that people are so blinded by money that all they care about are tax cuts that won’t even benefit them. that they can be so easily swayed by biased media on terrorism and iraq. it still blows my mind that 11% of the population thinks the war is going well.
i realize that i have mostly right-wing conservative friends at the moment, and that we probably disagree in most issues that these people re-electing bush consider important. i don’t mean to offend (and i also don’t think i am). but i still can’t believe it happened. the president, and government, and this election is/was not about stem cell research, is/was not about abortion, and is/was not about Jesus. i’m probably one of the most moral people you will ever meet, yes morals are important to me, but not when considering who is going to lead this country. intelligence is a BIT more important in the “leader of the free world” to me, than what they think about stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion or religion. i am not going to waste my breath with my opinions on any of these subjects, because it doesn’t matter. it doesn’t matter what i think, or what you think, or what the president thinks, because it has absolutely no bearing on running this country in today’s world. maybe the entire world will simply cease to exist if every gay person in this country got married, but i’d bet against it. i think how we handle other countries, international conflicts and problems, the “war against terrorism” etc will have a much bigger impact on us and the entire world than if mary smith down the street wants an abortion. it just flat out IS NOT IMPORTANT to me. what this country does on the global stage is. we have to live here, we have to deal with it, our children have to deal with it long after this horrifying administration is gone. bush and his cronies are going to be fine, we, however, are not.
i’m just so frustrated i don’t even know what to say or think. on the verge of tears because i can’t believe the results of tuesday.
it amuses me to think about what would happen if the kerry states – the east and west coast more or less – seceeded from the union. let’s see the bush states get along with out us.
this is really a sad time, one i am not proud to be living in.
and i said i wasn’t going to talk about the election…
