fuck.
well, that's that. after canvassing and staying up until 3 and waking up to no more answers and finding out by constantly refreshing news pages about the concession, after getting depressed and then angry and then angrier until I kicked the wall in the english department and burst into tears, and came back and watched the concession speech... I don
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Most Reedies seem rather broken up about the whole mess. But this is what representative government is supposed to be about, one supposes. My history professor said: 'You win some, you lose some.' It'll happen again. But I still maintain faith that from a moral standpoint this country will progress in the direction of contemporary liberalism or will eventually (and very soon) fall by the wayside as a world power.
But I think we've discussed this. We should be wary, however, of our self-righteousness, as it is the very same thing that we condemn the Right for. I only know that the moral standards I support are what I feel are right. But aside from that, I cannot be certain. I only see the Neo-Con movement as an attempt to maintain an older world order of paternalism and trustee government laden with sentiments of overt (and archaic) moralism, wholly unconducisive to working in a world-wide democratic system.
We will muddle through and I have faith that eventually we will see issues like gay marriage resolved for what I think is the better. America may be strong but unless it moves along with the rest of the world, we will find ourselves taking a back seat to world politics. The trends have begun, I feel, to show a decline. It is inevitable. Or maybe I'm just being optimisstic.
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