Democracy in action
I know I don't live in America (and thank goodness), but of course the election results get to me. I'm a resident of North America, and Americans are my contemporaries, as are Canadians. But we didn't vote in Stephen Harper.
As K posted, it's more depressing that Bush won fair and square (at least it looks that way) then if he'd cheated. I have this depressing feeling that I'll live out the rest of my life with the vague feeling that I'm outnumbered, that the sane, rational, kind, decent people are outweighed by the forces of apathy, ignorance and screaming zealotry. That, in other words, the next couple of years will warp me slightly for my entire life, the same way Hunter S. Thompson's opinion on the basic decency of human beings never quite seemed to recover from Nixon. Cue the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (which happens to be on the radio at work now); only time will tell if we will get what we need.
Of course, I had a beer with supper, so maybe I'm being maudlin.
As K posted, it's more depressing that Bush won fair and square (at least it looks that way) then if he'd cheated. I have this depressing feeling that I'll live out the rest of my life with the vague feeling that I'm outnumbered, that the sane, rational, kind, decent people are outweighed by the forces of apathy, ignorance and screaming zealotry. That, in other words, the next couple of years will warp me slightly for my entire life, the same way Hunter S. Thompson's opinion on the basic decency of human beings never quite seemed to recover from Nixon. Cue the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (which happens to be on the radio at work now); only time will tell if we will get what we need.
Of course, I had a beer with supper, so maybe I'm being maudlin.
