a political rant - i'm sure i'm repeating what you've already seen somewhere.

[bowl_of_lilacs]

personally: busy as all hell, trying to finish up important papers, having trouble focusing (as usual around now), otherwise happy, healthy, etc.

i wanted to (like i'm sure everyone else) talk about the elections, because i think that what's happening is really weird.  i'm glad that obama won - i think it's pretty awesome for a lot of reasons.  he

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[surlygrl]

Thank you SO MUCH for writing this. It is incredibly coherent and thoughtful and brings up a lot of questions I hadn't been able to articulate yet in the wake of the ecstatic loveliness of the past couple days.

the whole platform of change - it's great, and i think that some changes will certainly be made. but this is not the bloodless revolution that a lot of people are making it out to be. we have the same broken parties, the same broken system, and the same broken country as we had before. it's just that now most of the people who call for change think that change has occurred...

I cannot even begin to fully address this yet, but yes. Today, I asked my students what they wanted Obama to change and what they thought he would change. Granted, they're kids, but I heard almost no specifics. They said, "I don't know, just that he'll change things." And I was like, change what? And it occurred to me, does anyone really know?! How did this campaign go so far on buzzwords without specific plans? Or is that how they always go