Four more years
In one sense I’m glad that it looks like Bush may be the victor in this bitter election: its not right to expect someone else to clean up the messes he’s made. I have to admit that it appears from just a quick glance at the maps that Kerry seemed to win in all of the more affluent areas of the country where people can be expected to be generally more highly educated. Bush seems to have a majority in those states where folks on average don’t have as much formal education. In some sense it can be argued that the election may have been decided by the under-informed and easily swayed…I know thats not entirely fair. The republicans won a vast majority in those areas near me where the most affluent folks live. They also took the lead with evangelical Christians (our foil to the evangelical Islamics we find ourselves fighting in Iraq). I’ll dub this triumverate my own personal “Axis of Evil”: Nascar dads and Soccer moms without much formal education (no, business school doesn’t count) that have a lot of daddy’s money or mommy’s religion.
From the New Zealand Herald: “It was a bad night for Democrats nationwide, as Republicans expanded their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives and knocked off Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
That will make it easier for Bush to push his conservative agenda through Congress if he is re-elected, potentially making his tax cuts permanent and appointing more federal judges including possibly some US Supreme Court justices.”
His “conservative agenda” clearly is a religious one, since fiscally he’s been anything but. In fact, Clinton was *far* more fiscally conservative than Bush - paring the government down so much we ended up with a surplus. Bush has expanded the government immensely and driven us into a huge hole.
The next four years will change the world my kids are going to grow up in over the next 30 and I’m afraid that a world run by ignorant, monied religious zealots will not look much like the America we wanted for them.
Comment posted on 11-3-2004
Now I know how Nancy Kerrigan felt when she got whacked in the knees by the trailor-park trash.
"Whhhhhyyyyyy…Whhhhhhhyyyyyyy????!!!!!!"
this blows.
Comment posted on 11-3-2004
In the general spirit of the Bush win, lets celebrate the below average!
Tonya Harding now has her own website wherein she shares her most
intimate fantasies. My favorite is “Fantasy Message #: 2974 Subject:
fantisy story out line “Nancy’s payback”. It was rejected by Tonya. See http://www.tonyaharding.com
Comment posted on 11-4-2004
I know that looks bad man, but it’s 3%….3%…3%. And they played the
game way better than us.
My sister, who in the late 80’s was assistant to the governor, and later ran
housing and urban development in Lousiana had this to say to me last
night: "Those evangelical Christians, they’ll *censored*ing stand in line for
ANYTHING.. FOREVER…they killed us last night."
They got the vote out.
It’s a long hard slog, but I see two angles that make this not look as bad as
it is:
1. Dick-n-Bush now have to deal with Iraq for the next four years. They
broke it they… yeah.. that.
2. The New American Century Neocons (www.newamericancentury.org)
have had their vision of mid-east democratic domination so *censored*ed in Iraq
that they really can’t go and spread their ideology much farther in the
next four years so my #1 worry is mute anyway.
Other than that, My Buddhist ego is stuill hurt that I didn’t get to watch
Dubya go home a miserable failure. I have a close eye on that. (the ego
part) =)
Comment posted on 11-5-2004
Cathy sent me this link -
the electoral map to scale
Comment posted on 11-10-2004
I have since reflected on this post and have decided that it’s generally dismissive tone does not really represent how I feel about those in the "Red states". I think I was just angry that more people didn’t see what I see as pretty obvious. No offense to those who live in less populated areas of the country - I’d rather be living there anyway.