Another day in America

[beetiger]

I really wanted to go out this morning and set something on fire, do something dramatic and angry. All I've managed is to pull a bunch of those ribbon magnets off people's cars on the way back from lunch at the mall.

Part of me wants my son's life quiet and stable and roughly middle-class. But part of me wants to call down the revolution.

The top reasons cited by Bush supporters nationwide for their continued support of the President were "terrorism" and "moral values". Given that the kind of "moral values" I think we're discussing don't cover queer poly witch chicks like me, I think perhaps the terrorists are winning, whatever fundamentalist religious base they come from.

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A yet another disappointment

[silverweb.livejournal.com]

This election wasn't lost, it was stolen. Major mal-functions in Ohio voting machines, blatant attempts to intimidate black voters,
loss of provisional ballots and last minute registrations. No, we din't so much lose, as we wuz robbed.

Well, so what? Elections don't create major social change - movements do. The president, above all, sets the tone of discourse in the country, so we have four more years of idiot babel to put up with.

One of my more cynical friends in one of the alternative parties said to me: It's not that bad if Bush wins, because it will galvinize the progressives and create a new mass movement for change which will render elections irrelevent. Gee, I hope so. It's happened before. Right now, I'm grasping for straws - I think that we need
to start thinking succession for some point in the future. What we have is three countries within one, each with different cultures. The northeast, the west coast and the rest of the country. I just don't see how it can go on.