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I refuse to get melodramatic or overreact to all this. First off, it's seriously not really over yet, pathetic as that is.
Secondly, much as I hate to say this, it's only four years. Yeah, a lot of damage can be done in that time, but less than in ten. It'll take longer to repair, but all we can do now is rise up, as a nation, and make it clear what we really want.
Thirdly, we still have bread and orange juice and computers, and Bush being the capitalist he is, we will continue to have those things [unless, of course, he brings bloody hell raining down on us from the Middle East]. I like my civil liberties, don't get me wrong, and I'm curious to see how far he might try to intrude - but I also have faith that eventually the backlash for his prying will be so severe that we'll get things back. We were all born with a sense of entitlement.
Fourth: Don't be angry at people who voted differently or didn't vote at all. However you voted/didn't vote, that was your right and you were taking part in the democratic system. Your vote meant very little, but it's still a moral voice saying, "I am a participant in my fate and your's." Everyone has that right.
He may be bent on turning us into a third world country [least so far as our elections are concerned], but it was a good go of it, and we know for certain he'll be booted out on his ass next time. Buck up, guys. Perhaps it's just our turn for hardship.
We are not the golden children of history. We are just people.
Secondly, much as I hate to say this, it's only four years. Yeah, a lot of damage can be done in that time, but less than in ten. It'll take longer to repair, but all we can do now is rise up, as a nation, and make it clear what we really want.
Thirdly, we still have bread and orange juice and computers, and Bush being the capitalist he is, we will continue to have those things [unless, of course, he brings bloody hell raining down on us from the Middle East]. I like my civil liberties, don't get me wrong, and I'm curious to see how far he might try to intrude - but I also have faith that eventually the backlash for his prying will be so severe that we'll get things back. We were all born with a sense of entitlement.
Fourth: Don't be angry at people who voted differently or didn't vote at all. However you voted/didn't vote, that was your right and you were taking part in the democratic system. Your vote meant very little, but it's still a moral voice saying, "I am a participant in my fate and your's." Everyone has that right.
He may be bent on turning us into a third world country [least so far as our elections are concerned], but it was a good go of it, and we know for certain he'll be booted out on his ass next time. Buck up, guys. Perhaps it's just our turn for hardship.
We are not the golden children of history. We are just people.