Nov 04, 2004 09:35
"I rolled out of bed yesterday morning, full of hope, with an honest belief that maybe, just maybe this country had come to its senses. By the time I went to sleep, I was strongly questioning that. When I awoke this morning, my hope was hours away from conceding, my party had lost crutial seats in the house and senate and my faith in this country had all but dissipated. I woke up this morning, looking at 11 states who now have constitutional amendments against my kind. (God save the queens.) I awoke this morning with the harsh realization that not even Alaska is capable of legalizing marijuanna. By the time I yawned and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, I had given up the hope in this whole fucking nation. The free press is corporately owned and terribly biased, the nation's votes only cost $500 million and tactics no more skillfull than those of a gradeschool bully are effective enough to win the hearts and minds of the people. Nothing has changed since the birth of this god-forsaken nation. The power still lies in the hands of heterosexual white male fundementalist protestant property-owners, and the rest of us are fucked."
I was one pissed off kid yesterday. I ended up scratching that into my notebook before falling asleep wrapped in a blanket under the stars last night. It was colder than a pimp's heart out there, but I feel much better today. God give me the strength to live with what I am powerless to change...