Stoopid Stuff

It's All Over, We Lost

Well, it's over, and the hillbillies won. I thought this election was going to be about big things, ideas, issues. You know, Foreign Policy, this unnecessary war in Iraq, the economy, jobs, education, health care coverage and costs--Things that the federal government is supposed to be about improving. Boy was I wrong. None of that mattered one whit to the good people of the heartland. Nope. This was about god, gays and guns. What they like to euphemistically call "cultural issues". Or some people have the nerve to call "moral values". Here's the news: There’s more of them then there are of us, so get used to it. America is well on her way to becoming a Theocratic Dictatorship where basic civil and human rights are superseded by the leadership's interpretation of the bible. Not only can we not win in this environment, we can't even compete. Because it's about abortion and marriage and the separation of church and state. We can't adopt their views, or even "move towards the center". I look forward, not just to the next four years, but as far as I care to look, and the landscape I see is pretty bleak. Women will lose their right to have a safe, legal abortion. Prayer in schools. Fewer civil liberties. Longer prison sentences. More death penalty. An increasingly stubborn, ideological foreign policy. More wars. Fewer allies. A trashed economy. A draft.

Today is the day they figured it out, too. The "conservatives". The right wing. The Politicians favored by all those middle Americans. They now know that as long as they stay on the right side of the god, gays and guns issues they can do ANYTHING and continue to be re elected. They have us outnumbered. As long as they continue to work to overturn Roe v. Wade, they can invade countries, start wars, trash the economy. As long as they continue to push for prayer in schools, they can steal from social security, provide huge profits for the corporate pals and drive more and more Americans into poverty. They're laughing today, because they know the game is over. They won. There's just no way to get it back.

The people who re elected this administration don't care how much they suffer. Hell, they EXPECT to suffer--The bible told them to expect it. Their government will give them what they want. Systematic discrimination against women and gays. More power and money to Christian organizations. Our own jihad against "unbelievers". My god, change the name of the deity and the book and we've become the taliban!

It's sad to watch the great American experiment end this way. I'm too old and too tired to change my views to fall into line, so I suppose I'll spend my final years either a political prisoner, held without due process, or in a concentration camp somewhere. But at least I'll remember a free, democratic America.

posted by mikey @ 8:41 AM