man oh man
I'm so excited that this election shit is over for now.
I'm even more excited that our next president is Barack Obama. Here's to less war and less fear and to less money and lives and respect wasted on those things. Here's to some of that money and effort refocused on our own society in the form of more accessible healthcare, better education and a higher standard of living for those who could actually benefit from it. To less of the religious right's interference with our schools and courthouses and townhalls. To a softening of the line between the rich and the poor and a weakening of the power maintaining that line. To well, a bunch of things one wouldn't have dared imagine 10 years ago. I'm drunk and exhausted and inarticulate and completely unable to sleep, so I'll try to wrap this up, but most importantly:
Here's to hope. To the hope that these things are not just daydreams but concrete and obtainable goals, things that can and will come to pass. I'm tired of watching this country bleed itself out, in the deserts and mountains and jungles of the world, in the streets and factories and offices of our cities and towns. I'm tired of watching people get rich off of it. I'm tired of the mind being devalued more and more each day and I'm tired of watching the people around me strapping on blinders to the world and craning their necks at the tv. I'm tired of worrying about it and I don't know if I can bring myself to not care.
Here's to hope that those men and women that we as a people chose on this day to lead us can unfuck this country before it's too late. And for the first time in my fairly short life, I can actually indulge in that hope and not call myself a liar. Which is a good start, in my opinion.
I'm even more excited that our next president is Barack Obama. Here's to less war and less fear and to less money and lives and respect wasted on those things. Here's to some of that money and effort refocused on our own society in the form of more accessible healthcare, better education and a higher standard of living for those who could actually benefit from it. To less of the religious right's interference with our schools and courthouses and townhalls. To a softening of the line between the rich and the poor and a weakening of the power maintaining that line. To well, a bunch of things one wouldn't have dared imagine 10 years ago. I'm drunk and exhausted and inarticulate and completely unable to sleep, so I'll try to wrap this up, but most importantly:
Here's to hope. To the hope that these things are not just daydreams but concrete and obtainable goals, things that can and will come to pass. I'm tired of watching this country bleed itself out, in the deserts and mountains and jungles of the world, in the streets and factories and offices of our cities and towns. I'm tired of watching people get rich off of it. I'm tired of the mind being devalued more and more each day and I'm tired of watching the people around me strapping on blinders to the world and craning their necks at the tv. I'm tired of worrying about it and I don't know if I can bring myself to not care.
Here's to hope that those men and women that we as a people chose on this day to lead us can unfuck this country before it's too late. And for the first time in my fairly short life, I can actually indulge in that hope and not call myself a liar. Which is a good start, in my opinion.