Overwhelming grief

[pegkerr]

Rob, who had been watching the election returns all night, came and woke me about forty-five minutes ago and held me while I cried.

Injustice won. Now this man who has made an unprecedented power grab for the executive branch, who authorized the use of torture, who has trampled on civil rights, who has lied and lied and lied to the American people, is going to have the chance to reshape the Supreme Court for the next generation. Bigotry won. I cannot bear it that the bigot's side of the argument on a civil rights issue that I care so deeply about, gay civil rights, was what pushed conservative voters out to the polls to return this man to the White House. Stupidity won. He totally lost track of who attacked us on September 11, he has ignored the threat of North Korea and Iran, he has failed to guard the borders, he has taken us into an unjust, immoral and unnecessary war which has killed our people and a hundred thousand Iraquis, spent our resources, inflamed the world against us and multiplied our enemies a thousandfold.

And we have rewarded him by returning him to the White House.

I have never been so ashamed to be called a Christian, if people who call themselves Christian feel that they are honoring their religion by voting for him over John Kerry. I have never been so afraid and so grief-stricken for my country, no, not even after September 11, because this time we are administering the wound to ourselves.

Comments

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

The way this is being portrayed frightens me too--all the talk about "moral values" being what pushed people to vote for Bush. As if civil rights are somehow immoral; as if morality has been conceded to the far religioius right.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

This, yes, THIS.

I'm a moral woman. I am also a liberal. Morality is not the property of the religious right.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Since when did voting for Bush presuppose morality? Kerry's the one who actually served when he was drafted, and who has kids -- and stepkids he helped raise -- who are happy, healthy, successful and NOT BINGE DRINKERS who have been arrested with fake IDs several times.

Anyway, since WHEN did the difference between being a Democrat and a Republican become that the Republicans are 'moral' and the Democrats are 'amoral'? -- I know when; it was around 1980. That was a rhetorical question.