America Is Scary.
Nov. 3rd, 2004 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
batskeetsI think today is a firm reminder of why it took me so long to start caring about politics AT ALL: Because it invariably leaves me depressed and/or disgusted by the whole process.
A Bush victory is bad enough, in my humble opinion. But I suppose it's not *that* big of a shock. Depressing, yes, but not particularly surprising.
But Measure 36, too? The same state that shot down Measure 9 when I was a kid voted in FAVOR of Measure 36? What the hell, people? I never thought that 36 would pass, and even when CNN reported 10 other states passing gay marriage bans, I thought to myself, "Well, it won't be us! Oregon's awesome!" Oh, how wrong I was.
All I have to say is: if anyone out there who voted for Bush, or didn't vote at all, doesn't like something that Bush does over the next four years, then you sure as hell don't get to complain about it. You might have been able to claim ignorance in 2000, but now you've had a 4-year-long look at what this man is capable of, and what he's all about. If you helped him get into office again after all this, then shut up and take your lumps, because you knowingly did it to yourself.
I don't even know why I just wrote that--most of the people watching this journal probably already agree with me.
As for me, I suppose I'll be throwing more of my money at the Human Rights Campaign, because I can't let discrimination stand, and I can't abide people who think they have the right to tell others how to live. I'll stay in my cute little city of Eugene, because at least this way I'll be immersed in an environment where people actually think like I do, and hey, what terrorist is going to choose Eugene as their first target? And I'll continue watching The Daily Show as my sole source of real-world news, because I think the only way I'll survive the next four years is to laugh at all the absurdity they so deftly point out.
Well, either that, or I'll flee to Japan. ::laughs:: Whatever happens, I'm sure as hell not going to stand here while the GOP takes away my civil liberties, one at a time.
This is not the reality I wanted to wake up to.
...
So, uh, who wants to take me into their Tokyo flat and help me improve my mostly-broken Japanese? Anyone??
A Bush victory is bad enough, in my humble opinion. But I suppose it's not *that* big of a shock. Depressing, yes, but not particularly surprising.
But Measure 36, too? The same state that shot down Measure 9 when I was a kid voted in FAVOR of Measure 36? What the hell, people? I never thought that 36 would pass, and even when CNN reported 10 other states passing gay marriage bans, I thought to myself, "Well, it won't be us! Oregon's awesome!" Oh, how wrong I was.
All I have to say is: if anyone out there who voted for Bush, or didn't vote at all, doesn't like something that Bush does over the next four years, then you sure as hell don't get to complain about it. You might have been able to claim ignorance in 2000, but now you've had a 4-year-long look at what this man is capable of, and what he's all about. If you helped him get into office again after all this, then shut up and take your lumps, because you knowingly did it to yourself.
I don't even know why I just wrote that--most of the people watching this journal probably already agree with me.
As for me, I suppose I'll be throwing more of my money at the Human Rights Campaign, because I can't let discrimination stand, and I can't abide people who think they have the right to tell others how to live. I'll stay in my cute little city of Eugene, because at least this way I'll be immersed in an environment where people actually think like I do, and hey, what terrorist is going to choose Eugene as their first target? And I'll continue watching The Daily Show as my sole source of real-world news, because I think the only way I'll survive the next four years is to laugh at all the absurdity they so deftly point out.
Well, either that, or I'll flee to Japan. ::laughs:: Whatever happens, I'm sure as hell not going to stand here while the GOP takes away my civil liberties, one at a time.
This is not the reality I wanted to wake up to.
...
So, uh, who wants to take me into their Tokyo flat and help me improve my mostly-broken Japanese? Anyone??
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Date: 2004-11-03 09:41 am (UTC)...
... *hug* I'm sorry it happened.
Woe to the Republic
Date: 2004-11-03 10:59 am (UTC)A chance to live with the great sarah again? I'm so there!
We blue-staters really should start looking around the globe for a new Utopia to go to where we can all move and have it be like Eugene but national. We could go to Guyana, found a city called Jamestown, and we can live there in peace and harmony. And if anyone wants to leave, James can just give us all külaid.
-C
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Date: 2004-11-03 02:01 pm (UTC)Sadly, the one now gloating in the Oval Office. ;_;