Why does this loss hurt more than 2000?
You know you live in a liberal state when all the op-ed pieces of the major newspaper lament the election of Bush. All of them in different tones also commented on the division between the blue states and the red heartland. One of them came just short of calling for secession (ala Jackie), the others were more controlled in their response but similarly hurt and perplexed. Basically exactly how we all were feeling yesterday.
The article commented on the fact that the writer felt more defeated and disconsolate after this election than they did after Bush stole the last one. I am completely with him on that sentiment. I guess it was b/c Bush won on what was essentially the technicality of America's electoral college last time which was actually quite comforting to me. However, this time its clear that there are just major differences between people living in Middle America (here I exclude Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and any other Urban area with significant minority populations, with of course the exception of Miami with its random ass Cuban population - Oh, yes I'm also including Southern America, in my Middle America block), wait how about I call it Heartland America, yes new term to encompass Middle America, Heartland America, or better yet, the Red States, so yes, there is a fundamental difference between the Red and the Blue. So that these folk would rather put a president in office who will only make them poorer and send their jobs overseas, than run the possible risk of two gay people getting married in the far off Northeast.
That is such a hurtful thought. This is a country divided people, and I doubt Bush is going to some how "heal" us.
But you know this election also reminded me of how fragile this American experiment has been from the beginnig, and how miraculous it truly has been that it has managed to remain one nation undivided. I mean tempers must have run just as deeply back in the early days of our country, I mean back then folk didn't even think of themselves as one nation, and there was just as much a difference between Northerners and Southeners as there is now, if not more so, between the red and the blue. I mean its mind boggling to me that the Country was able to come back together even after the Civil War. Man if I was a white person in the South and I losted the Civil War, I'd be damned if I considered myself American, and that is just the truth. I'm a bitter loser to the end. But somehow (through concession and compromise not in no small detriment to blacks) the country puttered on. I mean I'm only saying this because I really was bitterly disappointed by the Bush victory, and if I lived back in the day for real, I surely would be calling for Secession. And in Haiti, please, such a Bush victory, would only lead to coup after coup, until the country, very much as we see it now, is completely destabilized (see example of Aristide).
So I guess despite my being incredibly upset at our loss, I am rathered awed by the continued stability of the American political system.
The article commented on the fact that the writer felt more defeated and disconsolate after this election than they did after Bush stole the last one. I am completely with him on that sentiment. I guess it was b/c Bush won on what was essentially the technicality of America's electoral college last time which was actually quite comforting to me. However, this time its clear that there are just major differences between people living in Middle America (here I exclude Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and any other Urban area with significant minority populations, with of course the exception of Miami with its random ass Cuban population - Oh, yes I'm also including Southern America, in my Middle America block), wait how about I call it Heartland America, yes new term to encompass Middle America, Heartland America, or better yet, the Red States, so yes, there is a fundamental difference between the Red and the Blue. So that these folk would rather put a president in office who will only make them poorer and send their jobs overseas, than run the possible risk of two gay people getting married in the far off Northeast.
That is such a hurtful thought. This is a country divided people, and I doubt Bush is going to some how "heal" us.
But you know this election also reminded me of how fragile this American experiment has been from the beginnig, and how miraculous it truly has been that it has managed to remain one nation undivided. I mean tempers must have run just as deeply back in the early days of our country, I mean back then folk didn't even think of themselves as one nation, and there was just as much a difference between Northerners and Southeners as there is now, if not more so, between the red and the blue. I mean its mind boggling to me that the Country was able to come back together even after the Civil War. Man if I was a white person in the South and I losted the Civil War, I'd be damned if I considered myself American, and that is just the truth. I'm a bitter loser to the end. But somehow (through concession and compromise not in no small detriment to blacks) the country puttered on. I mean I'm only saying this because I really was bitterly disappointed by the Bush victory, and if I lived back in the day for real, I surely would be calling for Secession. And in Haiti, please, such a Bush victory, would only lead to coup after coup, until the country, very much as we see it now, is completely destabilized (see example of Aristide).
So I guess despite my being incredibly upset at our loss, I am rathered awed by the continued stability of the American political system.