Comments | aliyaskie: Because I forget sometimes what this thing is for...

aliyaskie

Because I forget sometimes what this thing is for...

Nov 04, 2009 12:24

Last Election Day, I wrote about the bittersweetness of Obama's win. This year, unfortunately, we don't really have any sweetness to balance out the bitter. Other than Washington (and the ability to hold weed in Breck, LOL), there is no sunlight in this election. Bloomberg bought himself my beloved city again, New Jersey voted out Corzine (and ( Read more... )

vote dammit!, queer

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lara_aine November 4 2009, 18:45:25 UTC

After that comment I would've let the door slam shut in his face.

Apparently courtesy is dead, along with tolerance and all that other common decency stuff.

aliyaskie November 5 2009, 17:04:14 UTC

Oh, I wish I had, believe me. I just can't believe people. :\

ceilidh_ann November 4 2009, 19:22:05 UTC

I stayed up until halfway through Maddow (it was after 2am and the drowsy formula flu meds were kicking in) so the last thing I saw before I went to bed was the guy in Maine talking to Rachel and looking so happy and optimistic. It feels like such a fucking kick in the teeth to see it all snatched away now. Who the hell honestly believes that gay marriage will bring about the apocalypse? Or that the rights of the minority should be put up to a popular vote? I'm still raging a bit and mixed with being ill is not a pretty sight.

aliyaskie November 5 2009, 17:05:21 UTC

Oh, wow, yeah, that must've been tough to see the happiness right before bed then to wake up to this. I don't even know what's wrong with people...I'm still hurting two days later. *hugs*

satancharm November 4 2009, 22:18:07 UTC

I was so completely crushed when California, my home away from home, pulled that shit last year. I know how you feel. I'm sorry :-(.

aliyaskie November 5 2009, 17:05:45 UTC

Thanks, sweets. Same to you. ♥

rytshen November 5 2009, 16:38:52 UTC

Maine is not the same thing as last year. The task force had worked their butts off addressing the bigotry by going door to door--to have that conversation to change people's minds. They were trying to learn from all the mistakes made from Prop 8. I personally know someone who wanted me to go to Maine to help out. It hurts more that this time around we still failed.

I didn't help out but I'm not entirely sure it would've made a difference. Someone needs to do a postmortem on this.

On the other hand, national rights are a different story too. Being legal to marry on a state wide level doesn't prevent someone from being deported from the country because the country doesn't recognize this as granting citizenship. So there's that.

aliyaskie November 5 2009, 17:07:11 UTC

Yeah, I'm well aware it's not actually the same thing. The feelings, Tuesday night, were the same. Only worse, because it was deja vu all over again. And oh, yeah, the whole second-class citizen thing, the whole codified homophobia? That's the same.

rytshen November 5 2009, 17:15:51 UTC

Sorry, I think I worded that national stuff confusingly. The point I was trying to make is even if we won Maine, an immigrant in Maine would still be deported. Is that right? So we have a LOOOOONG way to go. I brought this up because my q-wave friends have this problem and it sucks.

Yeah I'm a political n00b who hasn't paid attention to the fight from earlier on. I apologize that you feel horrible about it while I'm being rather callous about it.