Kate ([info]girlkate) wrote,
@ 2004-11-03 08:38:00
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Really fucking angry
My rage has usurped my ability to think and debate rationally. How could Bush win? How could this happen? How could half of my countrymen, my "fellow Americans" actually vote for that fucking asshole? It's not that I think they stole the election unfairly - I'm angry at the voters.

I cannot even UNDERSTAND what would bring someone to vote for Bush. Are these people such fucking selfish cowards, so afraid of the remote risk of a terrorist attack that they'd overlook everything Bush has screwed up?

And to put me over the edge into a sputtering, speechless fury, ELEVEN states approved (state) constitutional amendments banning gay marriage! What kind of country do I live in? Where do these bigoted fuckwads get off legislating others' relationships?!

I don't want to share my country with these assholes. I don't want to live through four years of a Republican Congress colluding with a lame duck Republican president to ass-fuck our rights and the environment. Fuck you, Bush voters! And fuck you, non-voters!

I'd tell them to go to hell, but pretty soon our country will be hell anyway, so what's the point?

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to paraphrase my response elsewhere...
[info]zachdms
2004-11-03 06:09 pm UTC (link)
This election was won based upon lies and ignorance. The Democrats got outspent by around $100 million, had much less effective pundits (Limbaugh and his cohort vs... Air America(?)).

Think about how close this election was even with that huge fiscal and media bias. This election was a squeaker (150k votes?), and if people can take their rage and anger and channel that into money and commitment for 2006 and 2008 and beyond, then the progressives can turn this around.

If you give up, the religious right wing is going to continue to win. They have taken their losses and learned from them. It is now time for the progressives to do the same thing. A failure to commit to the long haul is going to let the right wing continue to walk away with our democracy.

I wish you could have been there for the round table I went to about this election (featuring among others David Domke). Bush has very successfully engaged the religious right wing. It was a given going into this election that Bush was going to win the evangelical vote (who *do* vote), whereas Kerry had to rely on the much less organized progressives, who only recently woke up to the enormous tailored efficiency of the Republican machine.

There was a lot of analysis presented about how this will be countered over time, but this election unfortunately represents the birthing stage of the new progressive base. It's horrible, but things will get better so long as people continue to keep their eyes open. Again, if you look at how close this election was given the well-oiled Republican machine vs the progressive rabble, I think it's amazing that it was this close. It can and will be better. Nobody's going to fall or let slip the Swift Boat ads again. Lesson learned.

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