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so i wasn't gonna say nothing about the latest election. honestly, hasn't enough been said? but then, i've never cared so much about election results and the implications it has on our future before. so i'm posting this up because i give a damn.
the short version:
cute and unapologetic. found it here. please allow me this tiny moment of tantrum to express my Immense Frustration.
but you know what folks?...it's only four years. life goes on okay. and don't you dare leave this country because bush got elected. through thick and thin people. so settle that ass down and git organizing. we need less party-line, less ideaological extremists, less juvenile mud-slinging, and MUCH less melodramatic crap. haven't we been there and done that already? move on and get moving!!!
the long version:
am i sorry enough to apologize to the rest of the world? no. it does suck for us, and for planet earth, that now there's a group of stubborn, narrow-minded,hellfire and brimstone wannabe intellectuals on the throne, but i don't have to apologize to the rest of the world because the republicans came out ahead. i'm just sorry, and sad, that this happened at all. apologizing implies that i wronged the other party. i didn't. and i won't apologize for the other half of the country who voted differently from me - that's just unfair because they only voiced their opinions and there's nothing, nothing, wrong with that, regardless of how much i may disagree with their reasoning. they exercised their fundamental right of free speech and, instead of pissing me off, it makes me wonder…were we always like this? has middle america always prioritized moral values and only now emerged in full-force because they've finally found a voice and advocate in bush? that's scary. that scares the shit out of me. because this election is saying that, even in a country that's seen a major civil war fought to overturn a lifestyle based on slanted religious views, we've still yet to grow past intolerance and accept each other for who we are, just exactly as we are. that we've yet to move past feeling threatened by change and variation.
none of the candidates were good candidates this time. it's pointless to argue one's merits over the other because neither has truly demonstrated fit capability to handle the job of representing the nation. last time i checked, the president of the united states is elected to represent the interests of the nation. well mr. bush, in this nation lives lots of gays, bums, and responsible people who chose abortion. and you didn't represent them. instead, in pursuit of other interests, you wholly ignored them or otherwise simply outright rejected their very being. whether you think gay people are icky or not is not the issue. the fact remains that they exist, they live and breathe, and they are contributing members to this society and country. it's not your job as president to define the parameters of their lifestyle unless gay people getting married will ultimately cause the apocalypse to rain down upon us. if god truly did not intend for gay people to exist, he'd handle that on his own thankyouverymuch. you're not god and you were not elected to be god. further, you were not elected to preach god's gospel. you were elected to keep the government running smoothly for the betterment of every citizen's future. not just the citizens who supported your actions but the ones who disagreed with you as well. you know, everyone. you didn't do that. you made feeble attempts to stablize the economy, just enough to say that you did something. by justifying your trigger-happy war on flimsy facts, telling bald lies in the face of indisputable facts, and then thumping the bible to validate your authority, you forced us to accept your actions based on a faith and belief that not everyone shares (hello, do you recall that "freedom of religion" bit?). and dammit man, that ain't the way this country should be structured. this isn't church, you aren't a minister, and we sure as hell are not your flock. maybe that shepherd and sheep image is comforting and familiar but it's not like the united states is an island on this planet, where we can do whatever the hell we want without regard to our neighbors. further, forcing each of us to live as you see fit goes against the very freedom of individuality that our constitution celebrates.
kerry? well, the guy's not a shining beacon of leadership either. he seemed all the time to parrot the current tide of opinion; which, depending on where each campaign stop was, differed to fit the ideas of that region. um, that's stupid. it's completely lacking of strong conviction and only served to demonstrate the guy's inability to think independently. we are currently in the middle of a sticky milltary dilemma, are losing jobs to increasing outsourcing, and being split demographically on some very personal and controversial issues that have been too long out on the table. kerry, like bush, is probably a decent guy who means well and wants to do good by the country. and also like bush, he hasn't proven his smarts in knowing how to lead a people or think effectively in a leadership position. being president means you gotta be smart, like, really smart, in reading people, handling people, and working with people. being able to work with your supporters, your dissenters, foreign countries, the nice grannie living down the street and the ganj smoking liberal grad at berkeley. in the past year and a half of campaigning, neither kerry nor bush showed that they had those leadership qualities…only that they were capable of increasingly juvenile mud slinging and sticking to their guns when questioned about their stances. i hated watching the telly for the last four months or so of the campaign because those ridiculous ads were just that - ridiculous. it's utterly depressing to watch two grown and allegedly intelligent leaders duke it out playground-style on the international stage. honestly, wtf? is it really that hard to stand up and speak the truth about yourself, be it bad or good, and serve yourself up to the public? isn't that what you're running for anyway? to serve for the good of the country?
so i voted for kerry. because i've already seen what bush can do and i don't like what he has done. he had his chance (i didn't even vote for him the last time) and i wanted to see what someone else can do. i don't believe that kerry would've pulled troops back, which is why the rest of my family voted for him, because the iraq situation has escalated to a stage where nothing is so simple any longer. kerry is someone different and carries with him the potential for change. and while i'm neither republican nor democrat, there needed to be a strong democrat party prescence to balance out the republican congress. too much of anything is no good and now, with both a republican president and a republican congress, not to mention a potential republican majority in the supreme court in the near future, that balance is gone. in our country that values so highly the concept of freedom, that loss of party balance, where religious beliefs strongly factor into the policies of many of the politicians, scares The Shit outta me.
right. just four years.
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