Four more years of this?
I am feeling: angry, disappointed, bewildered, weepy, sick, miserable, forlorn, slightly hysterical, cynical, unimportant, numb, lonely, rational, dazed, tired, cold, and infuriated. It's hard to sum that up coherently.
Salon.com has a lot of articles right now that I'm just going through and reading to try to push past the pain. One article I really found interesting was "Forget the 'Heartland'" by Janet Sullivan. Her litany of the Republican Senators elected was especially scary:
Look what they [the voters] did at the Senate level. In Kentucky, they refused to use even basic sanity as a litmus test, and reelected a guy with apparent late-stage dementia; in Oklahoma, they tapped a fellow who wants to execute doctors who perform abortions, who was sued for sterilizing a woman against her will, who pled guilty to Medicaid fraud, and who largely opposes federal subsidies, even for his own state; in Louisiana, they embraced a man who has made back-door deals with David Duke and who was revealed to have had a long-running affair with a prostitute; in South Carolina, they went with a guy who thinks all gay teachers should be fired; and in Alaska, they reelected a woman who was appointed by her father to the job after a spectacularly undistinguished career as an obscure state senator. And compared with the rest of the GOP Class of '04, she's the freaking prom queen.
The new senator from Oklahoma also believes that blacks die earlier than whites because of a genetic predisposition, called the Oklahoma Legislature "a bunch of crapheads," and doesn't think girls should go to the bathroom together because lesbianism is "rampant" in our schools.
And Alan Keyes received 1.3 million votes in Illinois, which just proves that there are some truly crazy people out there.
I'm truly ashamed of my country right now. And, as Ms. Sullivan said, afraid for it.
[Edited for clarity and to add a paragraph of the article I mentioned.]
Salon.com has a lot of articles right now that I'm just going through and reading to try to push past the pain. One article I really found interesting was "Forget the 'Heartland'" by Janet Sullivan. Her litany of the Republican Senators elected was especially scary:
Look what they [the voters] did at the Senate level. In Kentucky, they refused to use even basic sanity as a litmus test, and reelected a guy with apparent late-stage dementia; in Oklahoma, they tapped a fellow who wants to execute doctors who perform abortions, who was sued for sterilizing a woman against her will, who pled guilty to Medicaid fraud, and who largely opposes federal subsidies, even for his own state; in Louisiana, they embraced a man who has made back-door deals with David Duke and who was revealed to have had a long-running affair with a prostitute; in South Carolina, they went with a guy who thinks all gay teachers should be fired; and in Alaska, they reelected a woman who was appointed by her father to the job after a spectacularly undistinguished career as an obscure state senator. And compared with the rest of the GOP Class of '04, she's the freaking prom queen.
The new senator from Oklahoma also believes that blacks die earlier than whites because of a genetic predisposition, called the Oklahoma Legislature "a bunch of crapheads," and doesn't think girls should go to the bathroom together because lesbianism is "rampant" in our schools.
And Alan Keyes received 1.3 million votes in Illinois, which just proves that there are some truly crazy people out there.
I'm truly ashamed of my country right now. And, as Ms. Sullivan said, afraid for it.
[Edited for clarity and to add a paragraph of the article I mentioned.]