I have a confession to make
I didn't vote.
Due to a variety of reasons (mostly the fact that I missed the deadline to change my registration of Lexington by a day and then had to work from midnight to 11 am on Election Day) I missed my chance to vote. I felt bad enough about that, since I had been doing nothing but talk about the election for several weeks leading up to it, but then to add insult to injury, on election night, I noticed that CNN had listed the district that I would have been voting in (Kentucky 2) as a close race. Fortunately everything turned out fine (obviously) but there was still a considerable amount of liberal guilt that night. Which brings me to another point:
I don't know how to deal with not being angry about politics.
I've been severely confused the past couple of days, since I've only experienced two emotions in relation to politics in the last 6 years- anger and resignation. I can't handle actually being on the winning side for once. I have lots of angry liberal music, but no happy liberal music; plenty of stuff that says "I hate George Bush" but not "I love Nancy Pelosi" (not that I really do, at least not yet, but you get the idea). I'm sure it'll pass, once Congress gets in session and I have other stuff to bitch about, but it's still confusing.
Due to a variety of reasons (mostly the fact that I missed the deadline to change my registration of Lexington by a day and then had to work from midnight to 11 am on Election Day) I missed my chance to vote. I felt bad enough about that, since I had been doing nothing but talk about the election for several weeks leading up to it, but then to add insult to injury, on election night, I noticed that CNN had listed the district that I would have been voting in (Kentucky 2) as a close race. Fortunately everything turned out fine (obviously) but there was still a considerable amount of liberal guilt that night. Which brings me to another point:
I don't know how to deal with not being angry about politics.
I've been severely confused the past couple of days, since I've only experienced two emotions in relation to politics in the last 6 years- anger and resignation. I can't handle actually being on the winning side for once. I have lots of angry liberal music, but no happy liberal music; plenty of stuff that says "I hate George Bush" but not "I love Nancy Pelosi" (not that I really do, at least not yet, but you get the idea). I'm sure it'll pass, once Congress gets in session and I have other stuff to bitch about, but it's still confusing.