What the…
Honestly. What…
Argh.
You remember Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes? That’s me right now.
What the hell?
And yet, honestly, I can’t say that I’m all that surprised. I had just wanted to believe that America wasn’t quite so conservative, backwards, and delusional. But there you go.
51% of voters are all for massive deficits.
51% are for fiscal irresponsibility.
51% are for preemptive wars.
51% think that torturing our enemies is A-OK.
51% are willing to cut chunks out of their civil liberties for the hollow promise of greater safety.
51% are against a president who can speak coherently.
But, hell, this is America. Of course 51% of people don’t give a damn what the rest of the world thinks. If those filthy Europeans are for something, then, by God, we’d better be against it. They’re against cluster bombing Iraqi civilians? Screw ‘em. How else will the Iraqis learn not to attack our country?
And now the pundits are saying that the election rode on “moral issues.” Because, of course, Bush is oh-so-moral.
Evengelical Christians are fucking hypocrites. They aren’t for turning the other cheek, unless it’s the other guy doing the turning. They’re against abortion, and they’ll kill any doctor who dares to perform the procedure. They’re for converting the heathens at the end of a sword. These are the people who fantasize about being Righteous Warriors for Christ, as long as that involves kicking the crap out of someone else. Like homosexuals.
Repress those sexual urges hard enough, drive them deep enough, and it’s going to spew back out as hatred and violence.
“Moral issues,” my ass. It’s fear. Fear of people who are different, fear of things they don’t understand, and fear of…well, there’s a lot of fear, there.
Sure, I’m talking out of my ass. But I’m entitled to that, especially today.
Americans also voted to give Nixon a second term. Of course, he was actually elected to a first term, but that’s just a minor detail.
The Republicans have a pretty solid lock on things now. Does anyone really believe that Bush will be at all compassionate? Why? He hasn’t been for the last four years, and now he doesn’t have reelection to consider, he’s got more Republicans in Congress, and he’ll probably be able to pack the Supreme Court with Scalias. (Or at least Thomases, which are similar, except spineless.)
So, there we are. 51% of Americans have handed the GOP plenty of rope. I just hope they make good use of it.