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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.

Re: Mixed feelings

Date: 2004-11-03 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pegkerr.livejournal.com
Thanks for your kind words, [livejournal.com profile] amandageist. I'm sure it must a rather strange position for you. I will admit I was thinking of you and a few others when I went back to change my entry to put it behind a cut tag, because yeah, I can see sort of, if I squint really really really hard how the people who voted for George W. Bush did it because they thought they were doing what is best for the country. I want you to keep reading my journal and commenting.

I am capable of changing my mind about things, and I have. But I think that the America you want is not the America I want. And I don't think it's the America that the rest of the world wants.

And I KNOW it's not the America I want for my children.

Re: Mixed feelings

Date: 2004-11-03 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/
And I KNOW it's not the America I want for my children.

Nor my children's children...

The repercussions may be endless, and that is what I fear most.

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