I can't believe it.
I never thought I would say these words.
But today, I hate America. I fucking hate America.
How in the world could this nation re-elect George W. Bush? After everything we've seen. After the lies he told us to go into Iraq. After he sent over 1,000 of our men and women in uniform to their deaths in Iraq.
He ran one of the most divisive administrations and re-election campaigns in American history. For all his bullshit talk in 2000 about being "a uniter, not a divider," he is the most partisan and divisive president of my lifetime. He plasters his lips to the asses of the religious right with crapful proposals like enshrining homophobia into the US Constitution.
And yet, he wins. Relatively easily, and with a four-million vote margin in the national popular vote? How is this possible????
Blame Kerry if you want, blame DNC chair Terry McAullife if you want, say that we'll retake America in 2008 or whatever. But I don't see any hope that is true.
After the 2000 debacle, I had hope. Both George W. Bush and Al Gore were relative unknowns, and Gore was carrying a lot of Clinton's unwanted baggage with him. Gore won the popular vote, and barely lost the electoral vote (or didn't; since the SCOTUS stopped the recount, we'll never know Florida's votes for certain).
But at least 2000 gave us hope. And obviously, we didn't know about 9/11. We didn't know terrorists would murder three thousand Americans, which is a tragedy in itself. But the larger tragedy is that 9/11 gave President Bush the excuse to do anything he wanted, all in the guise of protecting us from another terrorist attack.
And Americans are so goddamn stupid, they believe it. Still, to this day, opinion polls show that some 40% of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was linked to Al-Qaeda. About the same percentage continue to bury their heads in the sand and believe that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, when all the evidence points to the contrary.
Americans don't like to think too hard. Give us a common enemy, and we'll rally around the flag (and the president). Saddam was pretty clearly A Bad Guy (tm), and so stupid Americans lined up behind President Bush. It's like all the drunken, in-bred, hillbilly morons in America have finally found their one true leader, the prototype upon which all other idiots are based.
America is becoming more conservative, not less. While societies generally become more open-minded and tolerant over time, America is regressing.
There were eleven states with anti-gay marriage initiatives on the ballot yesterday. Some of them would even forbid people from forming civil unions. All of them -- all eleven initiatives -- have passed with wide margins.
What the fuck is wrong with America? Why do we give a goddamn care about who can marry? We have real problems in this country -- healthcare, education, social security. And yet our backwards-ass nation worries about gay marriage.
I used to love America, with a passion. I used to believe, without a single doubt, that we were the greatest nation on earth.
Today, I wouldn't put us in the top ten.
If I weren't so goddamn lazy, I'd be making plans to leave this country today and never come back. This is not a society in which I want to raise my future children. This is not a society that respects everyone, treats everyone as equals. This is not a society that respects political dissent and discussion as a legitimate part of the political process. We are becoming a society of conformists, a society where speaking out against the government means you are "with the terrorists."
And it's only going to get worse. It's pretty clear that ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist will not be returning to the bench. How many more justices will Bush get to appoint to the SCOTUS? 2? 3? 4? With a Republican Senate, he can appoint the most radical right-wing anti-freedom justices out there. Hell, he could put Roy Moore on the bench and get him confirmed.
We could be looking at the repeal of Roe v. Wade, prayer in every public school in America, loyalty oaths, the 10 Commandments required in every classroom.
Today, I fucking hate America.
But today, I hate America. I fucking hate America.
How in the world could this nation re-elect George W. Bush? After everything we've seen. After the lies he told us to go into Iraq. After he sent over 1,000 of our men and women in uniform to their deaths in Iraq.
He ran one of the most divisive administrations and re-election campaigns in American history. For all his bullshit talk in 2000 about being "a uniter, not a divider," he is the most partisan and divisive president of my lifetime. He plasters his lips to the asses of the religious right with crapful proposals like enshrining homophobia into the US Constitution.
And yet, he wins. Relatively easily, and with a four-million vote margin in the national popular vote? How is this possible????
Blame Kerry if you want, blame DNC chair Terry McAullife if you want, say that we'll retake America in 2008 or whatever. But I don't see any hope that is true.
After the 2000 debacle, I had hope. Both George W. Bush and Al Gore were relative unknowns, and Gore was carrying a lot of Clinton's unwanted baggage with him. Gore won the popular vote, and barely lost the electoral vote (or didn't; since the SCOTUS stopped the recount, we'll never know Florida's votes for certain).
But at least 2000 gave us hope. And obviously, we didn't know about 9/11. We didn't know terrorists would murder three thousand Americans, which is a tragedy in itself. But the larger tragedy is that 9/11 gave President Bush the excuse to do anything he wanted, all in the guise of protecting us from another terrorist attack.
And Americans are so goddamn stupid, they believe it. Still, to this day, opinion polls show that some 40% of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was linked to Al-Qaeda. About the same percentage continue to bury their heads in the sand and believe that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, when all the evidence points to the contrary.
Americans don't like to think too hard. Give us a common enemy, and we'll rally around the flag (and the president). Saddam was pretty clearly A Bad Guy (tm), and so stupid Americans lined up behind President Bush. It's like all the drunken, in-bred, hillbilly morons in America have finally found their one true leader, the prototype upon which all other idiots are based.
America is becoming more conservative, not less. While societies generally become more open-minded and tolerant over time, America is regressing.
There were eleven states with anti-gay marriage initiatives on the ballot yesterday. Some of them would even forbid people from forming civil unions. All of them -- all eleven initiatives -- have passed with wide margins.
What the fuck is wrong with America? Why do we give a goddamn care about who can marry? We have real problems in this country -- healthcare, education, social security. And yet our backwards-ass nation worries about gay marriage.
I used to love America, with a passion. I used to believe, without a single doubt, that we were the greatest nation on earth.
Today, I wouldn't put us in the top ten.
If I weren't so goddamn lazy, I'd be making plans to leave this country today and never come back. This is not a society in which I want to raise my future children. This is not a society that respects everyone, treats everyone as equals. This is not a society that respects political dissent and discussion as a legitimate part of the political process. We are becoming a society of conformists, a society where speaking out against the government means you are "with the terrorists."
And it's only going to get worse. It's pretty clear that ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist will not be returning to the bench. How many more justices will Bush get to appoint to the SCOTUS? 2? 3? 4? With a Republican Senate, he can appoint the most radical right-wing anti-freedom justices out there. Hell, he could put Roy Moore on the bench and get him confirmed.
We could be looking at the repeal of Roe v. Wade, prayer in every public school in America, loyalty oaths, the 10 Commandments required in every classroom.
Today, I fucking hate America.
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