Whoopeee! Four more years, or so it seems. America, it’s wunderbar. Ain’t this boogie a mess…
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Meta
shit.
Exactly my thoughts…
After a little more time to ponder:
I’m mainly mad. Mad at Kerry for conceding, when the actual final vote tally (including the provisional ballots – most of which were filed by Democrats who ended up not on the poll rosters for various reasons) won’t be accounted for for another 7-10 days and could very well be enough to turn around one or more of the close states like Florida and/or Ohio.
I’m mad at 51% of the US population for embracing their sheepdom. I’m having trouble picturing how things can get much worse than they already are but I’m shure we’ll see.
I’m not talking about Iraq. I HATE that we are there at all. We shouldn’t be there and we should get the hell out of there as quickly as possible, but I don’t believe for a minute that Bush made the decission for for us to attack anymore than I believe Kerry could have made the decission to pull us out. Wars and invasions are far too important in terms of resources and econimics for politicians (ie-corporate puppets) to be allowed to make those decisions.
I’m worried about the domestic issues. The blatently intentional dumbing-down of the American public as evidenced by how easily they were duped into believing we’re better off to remain under the leadership of (repeatedly) proven liars and war criminals whose actions are the cause of the state of terrorist activity in the world today.
The kids whose families don’t have enough money to pay for private education so they can actually get an education rather than a diploma that the public school system is strong-armed, by the administration, into giving them weather they have in fact learned enough to deserve it or not.
The abysmal state of what we are laughingly told is our “Health Care” system.
The chipping away (which will almost certainly become a full-fleged jack-hammering) at our civil and human rights under the guise of protecting us from the “Terrorist Menace”.
I don’t have any answers to these problems but I don’t doubt for a second that they’re going to get a lot worse over the next four years.
It sounds flippant and kind of trite but the best way I can sum up how I feel right now is:
“Frodo failed.”
The Idiot People’s Choice…
Welcome to the New Security State, or, “put back your head, here comes the drill”
Oh dearie, dearie fucking me. I found it fucking unbelievable enough when Reagan became President but this really takes the biscuit. If only that 51% knew (let alone cared) what they have unleashed, not only in terms of their own domestic situation but on the rest of the world also. Unbelievable.
Is everybody happy? Oh, never mind.
Cows will vote cows. I thought, that maybe the majority og the us citizens would be intelligent, but it turns out they are not.
there is one good thing about it though: more than half of them is intelligent, educated, concerned enough to go to vote. That’s not so bad now, innit?
And, after all: kerry was for the war in itaq wasn’t he? all chumps payed by the industry if you ask me. like monkeys in a zoo.
and my spelling sucks big time today. there goes your educated european.
Up Yours, educated european. I didn’t vote for Bush either time, and I’m concerned about all the things that everybody else is writing about, and I’m also worried about what could happen in the future, but the day I start needing or desiring your approval I’ll pack up and move to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and eat yellow snow for the rest of my life!….remember, there have been people saying these sort of things after every election in this country, and not only are we still here, (mostly) free, and generally better off than last decade, SO ARE YOU!! Nothing/nobody is perfect, and I don’t support all or even most of the foreign policies and/or actions of my country, but you don’t even have a vote. Put your shoes and socks on and c’mon over and work to fix things, or work to fix what’s wrong with/in your own country. Of course, you’re free to express your opinion just like I am, even though you don’t live here, and I ABSOLUTELY support your right to do so, but I’m not a cow and don’t like being called one.
And as for you, hairfarmer, the counting doesn’t stop just because Kerry decided he can do math and conceded. If any state flips, the result can and will change, so, if you’re hoping for a Kerry victory, don’t quit yet. Of course, Kerry isn’t all that much different from Bush who isn’t all that different from Nader, who,,,blah,blah, blah.
The only way anything is gonna change is if we all get off our asses and do something. The trouble is twofold; one, no three of us can agree on what needs to be done or how to do it, and two, the overwhelming majority of us (everywhere, not just in the States) are just too fucking lazy, myself most definitely included.. remember the 60’s!!!
A possible inroad towards more representative voting is maybe the IVF idea, which Australia uses. (Instant Runoff voting). Check this:
http://www.chrisgates.net/irv/votesequence.html
Whatever happens though, the main hope is that people who voted against Bush don’t lose hope and don’t listen to that usual stuff about “bridging partisan divides”.