Wednesday, November 03, 2004A rantI simply cannot understand how this man could screw up so many things in this country and the world and still be re-elected. And win the popular vote. How do you destroy the economy, lose millions of jobs, run up the largest deficit in history, plunge the US into an illegitimate war, constantly and continually lie to the American people, make the US and the world LESS safe and still win the support of a majority of the country? Is it fear? Is it playing to the base? Is it dirty tricks? I just don’t get it. Bush will take this as a mandate – he got the popular vote, Kerry conceded the electoral votes, and the House and Senate both gained Republican seats. I’m sure they’ll take this and run with it. Republicans have been waiting for this; they’ve spent decades perfecting their skills, polishing a right-wing echo chamber, utilizing language to their advantage, massaging their base. And they’ll lead this country down a dark and dangerous path to a few places we probably can’t yet imagine, but many more we can guess: more war, less taxes for the rich, more fear, less freedoms, more privatization, less regulation, more for business, less for the poor, more conservatism, less compassion. But this wasn’t an overwhelming victory. Bush still won by a bare margin. Nearly half of the people in this country did not condone Bush’s last four years of “catastrophic success.” And those people aren’t going to suddenly come under his spell. Republicans have been working towards this for decades. The Democrats just got their shit together in the past couple years. And that was with the help of people who probably don’t consider themselves Democrats but were adamantly opposed to Bush. So go ahead, Mr. President, claim your mandate. Continue on your destructive path of lies, greed and fear-mongering. Things have to get worse before they can get better. And after four more years of this shit, I can’t imagine that this country is going to be better off. And at some point, the people are going to push back. posted by chris at 2:14 PM ------------------ |
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